Need a professional to remove a huge poison ivy vine

[greenie72]

I found someone on Nextdoor. He worked for about 4 hours pulling poison ivy from three patches around my new property. Thankfully, my ivy hadn't gotten that far up the tree so we didn't need ladders or anything.



My job sounds a lot less complicated than yours though. I hope it's not as difficult for you to find someone because it took weeks and about 15 phone calls for me to find someone just to mow our lawn. And they refused to do the ivy.

[Corgi Dad]

If you use Roundup to paint the stump, apply the 41.5% concentrate. Roundup comes in many different concentrations, from 41.5% down to about 2%. The lower concentrations are referred to as RTU, or Ready to Use. The RTU stuff is useless for painting cut stumps because of the small amount of active ingredient (glyphosate). With RTU, you're paying mostly for water, packaging, and handling.

There are other products that are much more effective, but I won't get into that.

[h2ohzrd]

Originally Posted by luv4horses

You need to consider the biology of how a herbicide works. Round up works by entering soft tissue like leaves then being transported to growing young leaves and roots. So it does not work if the plant is not producing new growth or if the plant is not moving sugar to the roots. So for big vines of poison ivy it is only effective in the spring and when sprayed on soft green leaves. That’s why some say it works and some say it doesn’t. It doesn’t work well in the late summer for example.

Exactly!