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Gardening

Bayard

(26,126 posts)

2. You need a goat!

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Mon Jul 24, 2023, 12:17 PM

Jul 2023

We've been putting one ailing buck on our fenced hillside the past couple weeks, and he's pretty much cleaned it up. It was covered with poison ivy. Doesn't affect goats. Spraying the stuff didn't do much.

I can lend you one!

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Found more poison ivy and it's clipped and sprayed. [View all] Siwsan Jul 2023 OP

Seems especially potent this year. I only got close enough to a vine to take a pic and got a rash Walleye Jul 2023 #1

You need a goat! Bayard Jul 2023 #2

It falls to weed killers of all sorts. usonian Jul 2023 #3

UGH! elleng Jul 2023 #4

I'm fighting the same battle. I am sore infected, and finally found a patch in my back yard. Midnight Writer Jul 2023 #5

Here in Cascadia the poison oak seems to REALLY like the increasing atmospheric CO2. WheelWalker Jul 2023 #6