[NAFEX] Killing Poison Ivy Organically/off topic
tanis cuff
tanistanis at hotmail.com
Sun May 1 12:05:13 EDT 2005
Grazing questions-- getting off-topic (thank for your indulgence):
2 goats, one acre, one month. Hmm. Does anyone know whether the poison ivy
would have rebounded if hogs had NOT been pastured next? Or what the result
would be from a higher stocking rate of goats, but a rotational grazing
system for an entire summer? Does anyone know if scots highland cattle
preferentially browse poison ivy? I have an area I'd like to clear of most
of its p.ivy and slow down the autumn olive and carve some trails thru the
brambles. (It's a 5-acre patch with 4 apple trees & a couple amelanchiers,
and with all those autumn olive to explore maybe I'm on-topic after all.)
----Original Message Follows----
From: dtv
To: North American Fruit Explorers <>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Killing Poison Ivy Organically
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 10:00:14 US/Central
I've used goat also & they do love it, wish I had had the hogs for followup.
I
also wanted to say that for small patches, clear plastic burns it if you
leave
it for a whole summer, thru several cycles of regeneration. Be careful
disposing of the plastic, of course, if you're sensitive to the stuff like
me.
mIEKAL
> There seems to be much interest in killing Poison Ivy so I thought
I'd
> tell you how I killed it. I had alot of it and it was so thick that I
> couldn't get into it to spray without getting some on me so, first, I
made a
> trip to the hardware store. I bought electric fence supplies, enough to
> enclose my one acre, installing two wires, one at 12" high and another at
> 30". Then I rented two goats. Goats LOVE the stuff. After a month or
so,
> the land was de-nuded of Poison Ivy AND all other brush, but the roots
were
> still intact. I returned the goats and bought a few pigs (I couldn't
find
> anyone who would rent pigs). The pigs rooted up all of the roots. Then,
> when the land was ready to plant, the neighbors and I had pork sausage in
> the freezer.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN
> www.bberryfarm.com
>
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