• organic gardening,  Repost: drflower

    Plant Identification: Poison Ivy

    It occurred to me this week that not everyone is aware of how to identify this itchy plant.  Those of us that are allergic have it burned in our brain!  Do you know what it looks like? Here’s a few shots as fresher for plant identification: And here is the Elderberry bush that I dare not walk to as poison ivy currently surrounds it… Remedies could include vinegar sparingly painted on the sunny leaves of the plant. Why so sparingly? Vinegar will kill most of the plants around it, most microorganisms and leave a brown spot of nothing in it’s wake.  Goats I hear will eat poison ivy.   I’ve entertained…