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[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

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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Best Regards,
Claude William Genest

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