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  • From: Claude Genest <genest@together.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] rhubarb
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:33:10 -0400

Some posion Ivy options :
- One option is to have goats eat it up ( apparently if you then drink the goat's milk it MIGHT help you develop SOME immunity.
- Notice that Jewelweed is likely growing around /within the P.I. Mulch out the P.I and encourage the p.i.
- mints et.al would likely compete well against it.
- do nothing : p.i is a successional species and will be on its way out soon enough

Claude

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Michael Burns wrote:

I am also curious as I have a frightenly large patch of poison ivy I'd
like to eradicate. My tolerance/resistance to p.i. is absolutely zero. I
need to find a safe way to remove it and have considered sheet mulching,
comfrey and/or rhubarb. I'm so sensitive to it I will also need to find
someone to do the work! Anyone have ideas for a design/method?



### burns@panix.com ###

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Claude William Genest wrote:

Any experiences with rhubarb as an understory plant in food forests ?

I wonder if the toxicity of leaves inhibits growth of other plants. I am
experimenting with using those big killer leaves as a mulch over undesirable
weeds and think I am on to something...


Claude

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