Poison Ivy

Trying to get rid of poison Ivy is a difficult problem, if you cut the vine and remove it, the root system sends up twice as many vines. If you spray the vine, kill it and remove it, the root system doubles your problem within a short time. What I suggest you do is cut the vine and remove it. Immediately put a cotton ball, soaked in chlorine bleach on the stub of root that you left above ground. You must re-soak the cotton every day for 5 days, to be sure the entire root system is dead. The root system will take in the bleach thinking it is water and die before it can send up any new shoots, thus solving your problem. If you wish. You can use Roundup instead of bleach. It also helps if you put a little fish oil fertilizer in the bleach or Roundup. Fools the root system into thinking it's getting food.

Mix 1 tsp. of fertilizer in 2 ounces of Bleach or Roundup.