@Dune Gardens - I couldn’t agree more! This is Eric Ameria at his brilliant best, expounding on a topic near and dear to his heart. And I’m not just saying that out of giddiness over the shout out. POAS members, unite!
damn i hate poison oak. but all the positives you laid out are valid. great point about being and not being anthropocentric. it ain't all about me!
now i wonder about a huge poison oak vine i cut back when i lived in Oregon. it had wound all the way up the trunk of a 70 foot oregon white oak. i thought i was helping. but the tree was pretty healthy.
Hey Eric and Bruce, if I plant Poison Oak on our land- a healthy distance from where humans tread, how can I prevent it from POCreep? … into the areas 15 ft. away where I walk occasionally and if I touch it,
can suffer greatly, in spite of the near orgasmic pleasure of indulging in major scratching of the infected areas (then with the added pain pleasure sensation of putting Isopropyl Alcohol on the murdered skin just to top off the spread)?
Poison Oak grows quite slowly and is most easily pruned back in winter, when it drops its leaves. It also responds well to being cut back hard, even to 6" stubs. (The bare branches will also give you a rash, though, so use caution.) You can also control spread by using a sharp spade to root prune, chopping them off at your chosen periphery and then grubbing up the severed sections with a garden trowel. The roots are mostly shallow and brittle, and they come out pretty easily. The plant won't be harmed.
@Dune Gardens - I couldn’t agree more! This is Eric Ameria at his brilliant best, expounding on a topic near and dear to his heart. And I’m not just saying that out of giddiness over the shout out. POAS members, unite!
Hahah, 100%!
“Oh, fuck”
This might be my favorite episode. Holy shit you are so eloquent and funny. Love this substack!
damn i hate poison oak. but all the positives you laid out are valid. great point about being and not being anthropocentric. it ain't all about me!
now i wonder about a huge poison oak vine i cut back when i lived in Oregon. it had wound all the way up the trunk of a 70 foot oregon white oak. i thought i was helping. but the tree was pretty healthy.
Hey Eric and Bruce, if I plant Poison Oak on our land- a healthy distance from where humans tread, how can I prevent it from POCreep? … into the areas 15 ft. away where I walk occasionally and if I touch it,
can suffer greatly, in spite of the near orgasmic pleasure of indulging in major scratching of the infected areas (then with the added pain pleasure sensation of putting Isopropyl Alcohol on the murdered skin just to top off the spread)?
Poison Oak grows quite slowly and is most easily pruned back in winter, when it drops its leaves. It also responds well to being cut back hard, even to 6" stubs. (The bare branches will also give you a rash, though, so use caution.) You can also control spread by using a sharp spade to root prune, chopping them off at your chosen periphery and then grubbing up the severed sections with a garden trowel. The roots are mostly shallow and brittle, and they come out pretty easily. The plant won't be harmed.
By trimming it :)
am not always there to do s. Do you know how fast it grows?