I like this house for a lot of reasons but the wild and woolly back yard was a big selling point. After we bought the house, we kept having people tell us the back yard was riddled with poison ivy. (Neighbors, people we had in to inspect the trees, etc.) I never saw any.
This year I've been working back there a lot, and have been keeping an eye out. Nothin'.
There was a stretch of a couple of weeks where it was wet and cold, I didn't go out there much or at all. Just ventured back out yesterday. And sure enough -- poison ivy.
A couple of questions:
1.) What's the best way to get rid of it? Can I hope to just dig up the ones I see (manageable number, maybe a dozen individual plants that I noticed with careful looking) and be done with it? I'd plan on wearing gloves if so, any other pointers there?
2.) How bad is poison ivy, really? I think it's like bee stings in that some people react worse than others. I really really really DON'T want to keep the sozlet out of the areas that are poison ivy prone. Just stock up on calamine lotion?
Thanks!