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> >From: "Christy Korrow" This attitude of eradicating everything that
stands in our >>way or everything that causes us some discomfort ---
> > Around here people perceive snakes as bad and so they kill them
> >ruthlessly.
Hi Christy I think I agree with Tony N S - we should not be too worried
about clearing these noxious things from our immediate surrounds - however -
that said there are ways and there are ways. I used to shoot any snake that
came in our yard or around my workshop - still will do that - ( our local
brown snake is a particularly feisty and venomous critter and will not give
way easily) BUT two years ago we put up a paramagnetic "tower of power" in
our side yard, about 40 meters from the house and have not seen a snake in
the yard since!! We have lots more lizards and the famous "frill necked
lizard" about 8 of these in permanent residence stationed at various points
in the garden. Someone told me that reptiles are very sensitive to earth
energies and it seems that we have changed the balance in some way that
snakes no longer find attractive. I have never attempted to harm one on the
farm acres and if they will stay out of my yard we will get along fine!!
You may find in the end that you are able to change the dynamics of the
poison ivy, so that its less of a problem without actually eradicating it.
This is what seems to have happened here where we have used our field
broadcaster to pepper weeds - we treated silver leaf nightshade (readers in
the western US would know this weed but maybe by a different name) its
tough, mostly unpalatable and a low level poison weed - treatment has not
reduced the numbers (altho I am hopeful) but sheep will graze it more
readily and there has been no toxic effect on the sheep. Maybe a peppering
would reduce the aggressiveness of your ivy??
Cheers
Lloyd Charles
