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[TiFeMb]

ewwwww....and hypochondriac TiFeMb is itchy now...

[CindyLouWho]

I know.  I was literally nauseated looking at pictures of the bugs and rashes on the web.

[NightmarePatrol]

I'm glad that information was not available to me in 1986 when I got them. I don't want to relive that experience ever.

[Lifetime]

Poison Ivy and a pre teen kid..... I remember the Ammonia in bathwater and bleach in others...I remember the Fels Napha soap and Pine Tar Salve ..I also remember the gauze needed to keep my fingers apart so they didn't heal together and the VERY LARGE hole in my hip from infection from the scratching ..... I remember sleeping on the linoleum in our kitchen to try to stay cool and not stick to the mattress or the sheets.... even clothes were optional. I almost died. Now....haven't had it in years...luck or change in my body may have given me a different tolerence.
 
Please remember this when you have any urge to laugh at someone who was not so lucky as to NOT be a victim. And Burning it also contaminates surfaces like.... houses... even the trees and the vehicles... so.... be very careful. It is an oil and can travel on water droplets given off by the smoke. Lungs and eyes...easy targets on us and our animals. Be safe

[CindyLouWho]

I'm glad that information was not available to me in 1986 when I got them. I don't want to relive that experience ever.

Ditto.

[CindyLouWho]

I have removed all the poson ivy and anything that even remotely resembles it and my husband continues to get a red blistery rash over and over again.  It is always after he has been working outside ON OUR PROPERTY.  Ugh.  So I took a long observation walk all over the place yesterday and took some pics.  After a couple hours of research I have several trees with Virginia Creeper climbing them.  Turnes out some people react to this just like poson ivy!  My husband has sensitive skin to begin with so I feel pretty sure  it's this Creeper stuff.  Pretty vines.  They are all over several trees on our perimeter.  I thought it was pretty.  I saw a big vine climbing up the downspout on the barn and two places along the fence line that I pointed out to him a couple weeks ago (saying how pretty it looked) and I see he took the weed killer to it.  I think that was the culprit.  Calamine has become a part of his routine for crying out loud.  Can't wait til he gets home to show him what to stay away from. 

[gore range]

....could be....

....we call it Woodbine out here-







.... and appreciate it as an easy to manage, rather lush, but hearty heat/dry tolerant ground cover, shade cover, and/or privacy cover plant, particularly so as it really is the high-desert prairie here, and the stuff still manages to look good with little to no care other than some occasional water in only the the most long hot, dry spells....

....this year is a banner season as I've had more rain in the last month (not knocking it- bright sunny mornings & early afternoons, then, evening thunder butt-kickers!), and the stuff is going gang busters; but, again, easily managed....

....no allergy issues with it out here that I know of with my mile-high gardening/landscaping circle; but allergies certainly can be like that....

....though, if you are looking to eliminate it, it spreads out and you have to fine the parent heart root & yank it out of the ground, otherwise it keeps coming back....

....with Mr. Who- you might try just dabbing a leaf on an arm to see if it it is in fact the culprit....
 

[Amidala]

Good think Tigger is not allergic, either!

[Puffin]

Never heard that Creeper was a possible allergy risk. Thats good to know.
 
I've never had poison ivy. Maybe I'm not sensitive to it, because i'm certainly around it.
 
Probably the mosyt noxous weed we have is Johnsongrass

 
which is a non-native species of sorghum. Kudzu probably spreads faster, but not by much. The problem is that at certain times, especially just after first frost, or in very hot dry weather (Like last week here) it produces cyanide on its leaves. It will kill any stock that gets into it. Ive invested a small fortune in eradication efforts. With good results.
 Roundup+ works on the plants when they are small in the spring. When the plants get bigger the chemical of choice is Atrazine, which is the supposedly the non-nasty half of what was Agent Orange.Ive never used it, since our control efforts are in the spring. 

[NightmarePatrol]

I never knew creeper was hazardous either. Ivy doesn't really bother me and evidently niether does the creeper. We've got a ton of it here. I have no idea what the nastiest stuff in Florida is. I'm sure it's from a pretty big selection. The Johnsongrass sounds nasty though. I'm sure garlon-4 would knock it down in a second, but it's spendy and  a "handle with extreme care" herbicide.

[CindyLouWho]

I'm sure a bout or two of Mr Who's rashes have happened that way.  The dogs don't have access to any of the creeper areas any more thank goodness.  But it just occured to me our house cat sure loves to go in that area and hang out.......