Ortho's Poison Ivy Killer.

Thanks.
A friend has some Houttuynia that recently appeared in one of her beds.

I dug for so long and to no avail. I'm talking about years here, not just a day here and there. I dug down under pine roots, had to scrape the bottom of the roots with a serrated knife to get each tiny piece. It went on and on. Some days I'd work 8 hours just to clear a 2' x 2' spot. Now it's just a past nightmare, thankfully.

On my photo program I have 301 photos in 65 albums just for that one miserable plant. This is just one tiny example of the terror of this plant:

I dug out a whole bed. Two feet down and sifted all the soil, removing all the mother runners I could find. Babies still appeared this year but they were not connected to a mother. I think maybe they came up from seed? Either way those were easy to paint with poison or just pull out

I just can't take chances. I had an area of 50' x 12' and it took years but the poison was quick and effective and it's what I'll use anytime I see any new pieces sprouting.

My experience is the poison, no matter what kind or when, only kills the top growth. The runners deep down keep sending up new shoots.

ants
squirrels
certain neighbors

fiwit said:

Me too.... Song of Joy, can you post your signature? It's cut off and I can't read the last bit of it. It sounds great.

I have three lines showing in the signature at 100% zoom. Were you able to see it, fiwit? If not, here it is:
"I saw a man, an old Cilician, who occupied an acre or two of land that no one wanted, a patch not worth the ploughing, unrewarding for flocks, unfit for vineyards; he however by planting here and there among the scrub cabbages and white lilies and verbena and flimsy poppies, fancied himself a king In wealth, and coming home late in the evening loaded his board with unbought delicacies. ~~[i]Virgil, The Georgics (29 BC)"

It's good to hear what worked for you, pirl. My new scourge is golden bamboo. I think it's #1 on my list right now. I thought I had eradicated it but it's back with a vengeance. Ground ivy may be #2. The gal who mows for us has a riding mulching mower which, of course, scatters pieces of it all over when she mows. Even the smallest pieces will root. I've had to make peace with it since there isn't much to be done about it now. The yard is much too large. In fact, I think she might have brought it in on her riding mower but it could have originally come over from the neighbor's yard. :/ My yard is a mixture of various green "things" so I don't have to worry too much anyway. When mowed, it all just looks green. lol.

golden bamboo
ticks
Bermuda grass (or maybe ground ivy)

1. Quack grass
2. Bindweed
3. Hares and squirrels

If I HAD to mow, I would mow with a bag.
For the compost pile.

Oh, I forgot about Oxalis. I have big problems with that because if you mow over the flowers a bulb will develope where the seed lands and over time a new clump. I am constantly digging up bulbs and with their tap root is is almost impossible.

Funny thing is that for years, I used to buy the ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) in hanging baskets in CA. Always had baskets of it inside the house as a houseplant or hanging under the lanai or patio. Loved it. Would still love it here if I had it contained. I really don't mind it in the back so much as I'm certainly not a yard purist. Don't really care much for yards at all anymore but ours was already here - and has been here for a very long time. So you work with what you have.

1. Bermuda grass
2. Bermuda grass
3. Bermuda grass

I get that. Oh, yes I do. ;-)

SongofJoy said:ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

Oh THAT'S what that is.
I don't have any but I used to help a friend in her garden and it was a bear.

I have it, but not in the flower beds, it is pretty, and our summer heat kills it off until cooler weather, so I leave it alone. The neighbors on either side are less than interested in keeping up their yards, which means I don't have to be diligent for their sakes, either.

Smiling about that. Same thing here with the neighbors.

Hi all!
If I can only pick 3…Have to be
Florida pusley
Florida betony
Dollarweed
UGH! My list could be longer!
Much, much longer!

RickCorey said:If you can't read all of a sig block, try zooming in, and then out, and see if more of it comes up at different zooms. I usually can't see more than three lines.

When I used Internet Explorer, many odd and unpredictable things happened on many web sites.

I almost never use IE.

The three things I would eradicate from my landscaping are :
1 - my next door neighbor
2 - his lawn mower
3 - his leaf blower

1 - because he trespasses into my landscaping sometimes 25 feet or more.
2 - because he uses his lawnmower to cut down anything in my yard that is green but is not recognizable as grass.
3 - his leaf blower because he just never stops, like the Energizer Bunny, he keeps blowing and blowing...

If I had a fourth choice it would be Spanish Needle/Hairy Beggarticks/Bidens alba. This is the only plant I ever introduced into my landscaping that made me regret the action. Sure you can make tea from the leaves, chickens will eat any part of this plant, the bees love the flowers, but me - not so much.