While cleaning up in the back yard, I noticed one 6 foot long vine of poison ivy on a fence behind the work shop. I was going to go buy some poison ivy killer from Lowes, but looked up if there was a natural way to get rid of it. I found this info and wanted to know if anyone else has tried this:
"Start with a gallon of white vinegar. The ?average? vinegar is 5% acidic and will work just fine, but if you can find one that?s 10% or
20% your mixture will be more potent. Pour the vinegar into a pot and heat it over the stove. Add 1 cup of salt and stir until the salt dissolves. Let it cool, then add 2 tablespoons of liquid dish soap.Vinegar, when diluted with a gallon of water makes a good fertilizer for acid-loving plants like azaleas, rhododendrons and blueberries. When mixed full strength with salt, it works very much like Round-Up. The dish soap helps the mixture to stick to the leaves."
I mixed up a small hand sprayer version of this recipe and sprayed the vines leaves while it was still hot. While the leaves were wet with the mixture I sprinkled additional salt on the plants leaves. I know salt will do damage to many plants and even prevent some from growing, so added the extra salt in case of rain that might or might not clip us in a couple of hours. I figure the salt will get washed into the soil below the plant and do some damage that way, too.
Anyway, it's been about an hour since I sprayed it with the hot mixture and the leaves are already wilting, but, it looks like we may get the rain I thought was going to miss us. I can re-spray the leaves if need be, so that isn't a problem.
My question is has anyone tried getting rid of poison ivy and what did you have to resort to before it finally did the job. I've heard it's hard to get rid of, but thought I'd try the natural method first before resorting to dangerous chemicals.