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osker brown wrote:
Eating young red leaves in gel-caps prevents rashes, and lessens the itch of current rashes. It is the only effective treatment we have found. We have had limited success with jewelweed.
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Julie Anderson wrote:
How do you get the young leaves into the gel caps without getting a horrendous exposure? I get it really bad. I have 3-4 weeks of open oozing skin if I get any on me.
JA
Furthering Permaculture next to Lake Ontario.
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Kdan Horton wrote:We have it like mad. I notice it's not so bad where the wild muscadine grow. Where the vines were really thick on the trees, I chopped off about four feet of the vine but only in the winter. I can't even look at the stuff without a majour rash. I just live with the itch. Two weeks of itchy whenever I'm exposed and try not to be exposed. But in the summer, I usually have a patch somewhere on my body. Wash your hands really well with a super caustic soap helps. Until the skin starts peeling off your fingers...Better than having poison Ivy rash on your winkie though. That's my motto.
As for a preventative, I find whiskey works really well. Maintain a mellow healthy buzz all summer and it's easier to resist going out to work in the woods.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need] Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro.
Susan Derm wrote:Can anyone elaborate on smothering and/or allelopathic plants, specifically native to northern california? Any groundcover plants that could be grown under a bunch of Oak trees?
Since it is a pioneer plant that likes disturbed areas, anyone have any luck with bringing the ecosystem back in balance? If so, how did you do it?
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Pearl Sutton wrote:Question: I have noticed I only have poison ivy in the shade, when the shade is removed, the PI doesn't seem to come back. Would sun kill it? Can I put a reflector to brighten up it's shade and get something I want there growing?
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
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Castles in the air never have a wet basement https://permies.com/t/75355/Maison-du-Bricolage-house
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
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"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need] Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro.
Maybe he went home and went to bed. And took this tiny ad with him:
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