to smother it out than cut it out unless its on trees then cut the main roots with loppers...which you clean with precious gasoline later.
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to smother it: use an old section of carpet ....grass clippings and or black plastic with sand or soil or rocks to anchor it down. you can also spray it with 4 times the concentration of round up when your about to have four consecutive sunny days....although the new stuff (round up)claims to have water proof capability in 20 minutes....and thats a good thing!
I never caught it to last year, when I was a kid I'd rub the leaves on me and never caught it.worked around it in the rain yesterday and today I got a lump spoted rash on my neck and head didn't think I'd get it in the wetoke:
Thanks for the advice.
I appreciate all the info.
What's the biggest piece of plastic or carpet I can buy?
20x20?
30x30?
you need black plastic ok so the light wont get thru...
then it smothers it out with heat and no light.
you can buy that @ H.Depot -> 20' by 100'....
if that whole friggan hillside is covered with P. I.
then you got a big problem .... so get several rolls
and cover the whole thing...but then you have this huge rain
sheild sending rainwater water to your house...not good.
for less money you could buy a new pump up sprayer and round up
and spray the whole hillside.... if you can spray a swath 6 feet wide
then you string a string 6 feet down across the hill...
and use it as a guide then move it 6 feet down again..
.til you reach the bottom.
might wanna wait til sunny weather ....to do that.