GardenDC Podcast Episode 257: How to Outmaneuver Poison Ivy

In this episode of GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening, we talk with Dan Boelman of Zanfel Laboratories, all about poison ivy. The plant profile is on Pumpkins and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events in the What's New segment. We close out with the Last Word on Goodbye to Cruel Tomatoes by Christy Page of GreenPrints.

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Show Notes: 01:27 Introducing Dan Boelman 03:43 Dan’s career in healthcare 07:02 Dan’s passion is Growing Giant Pumpkins 10:31 Championship-winning pumpkin growth tips 11:57 Ideal Pumpkin Growing Conditions 13:51 Poison Ivy: Pros and Cons 17:00 Exposure to Poison Ivy 19:44 Don’t blame the dog! 20:57 Identifying Poison Ivy: Colors and Shapes 27:14 Tips for landscaping poison ivy 32:39 Post-exposure care and myths 38:33 What should you do when clothes and tools are contaminated? 41:14 Proper poison ivy education 45:02 Introducing Zanfel as an effective treatment 50:05 Find out more about Dan and Zanfel 51:07 The future evolution of poison ivy? Is it getting stronger? 53:25 Pumpkin Plant Profile 56:01 What’s new in the garden this week? 58:38 The Last Word by Christy Page: Goodbye Cruel Tomatoes 01:01:02 Support the Garden DC Podcast!

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Episode Credits:
Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz

Interview Edit and Show Notes: Cavit Ireland

Music: Let the Sunshine by James Mulvany

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Win a tube of Zanfel Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Wash in the March 2024 Washington Gardener Magazine Reader Contest

For our March 2024 Washington Gardener Magazine Reader Contest, we are giving away a tube of Zanfel Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Wash (prize value $50).

Zanfel® Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Wash (http://zanfel.com/) is a safe and effective topical solution for poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. It removes urushiol, the toxin responsible for the reaction, from the skin after bonding, enabling the affected area to immediately begin healing. After using Zanfel®, the itching and pain are the first things to be relieved, usually within 30 seconds. Zanfel has a 10-year shelf life.

To enter to win a tube of Zanfel, send an email to WashingtonGardenerMagazine@gmail.com by 5:00pm on Sunday, March 31, with “Zanfel” in the subject line and in the body of the email. Tell us what your favorite article was in the March 2024 issue of Washington Gardener Magazine issue and why. Include your full name and address. The winner will be announced after April 1.  

UPDATE: The winner is Maureen Wynn, Berwyn Heights, MD.

Win a Tube of Zanfel Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Wash in our July 2020 Washington Gardener Magazine Reader Contest

For our July 2020 Washington Gardener Magazine Reader Contest, Washington Gardener is giving away tubes of Zanfel Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Wash (prize value $40).
   Zanfel® Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Wash (http://zanfel.com/) is a safe and effective topical solution for poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. It removes urushiol, the toxin responsible for the reaction, from the skin after bonding, enabling the affected area to immediately begin healing. After using Zanfel®, the itching and pain are the first things to be relieved, usually within 30 seconds. Zanfel has a 10-year shelf life.
  To enter to win a tube of Zanfel, send an email to WashingtonGardenerMagazine@gmail.com by 5:00pm on Friday, July 31, with “Zanfel” in the subject line and in the body of the email. Tell us what your favorite article was in the July 2020 Washington Gardener Magazine issue and why. Include your full name and address. Winners will be announced by August 1. 

UPDATE: 
Congratulations to our three winners chosen at random from the submitted entries! Each wins a tube of Zanfel® Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Wash. They are:
~ Lynn Title, Lanham, MD

~ Dawn Szelc, Potomac Falls, VA
~ Alison Mrohs, Henniker, NH 

Pretty Poison

On this All Hallow's Eve, I bring you photos of a truly frightening plant -- the lovely native vine known as Poison Ivy. This time of year in the DC-area it is turning a marvelous rainbow of colors, making it very easy to spot in your lawn grass, leaf piles, or browning perennial borders. It is a vine, but it can also disguise itself as a spreading groundcover or even as a seedling tree. Don't confuse it with another color-turning, native vine, Virginia Creeper, which is stunning in fall, but has a quite different leaf shape and growth habit.

This is the best time of year to catch up before it takes over next spring and you are no longer easily able to distinguish from all the other new, green things. My control method is similar to a hazmat team. Before I even start, I open up my clothes washer and set a path from door to the washer and to my shower so that I do not have to touch any walls, doorknobs, light switches, etc. to get to them after exposure. I put on leather gardening gloves then grab some newspaper sleeve bags. I pull those on my hands up to my elbows and then put rubberbands over to keep them in place. I often double-bag my arms to be sure of no break-through. I then get grocery bags and rip out the poison ivy and put it in one bag, then double that bag. Then carefully peel off my arm bags and place them and the poison ivy-filled bags in another bag for good measure. Never, ever compost it or burn it.

Note that I took all of these photos this morning in one 20-yard patch of Poison Ivy on the edge of a park and a state highway in Montgomery County, Maryland. The amount of color variation is amazing and runs from bright yellow-green to dark green through yellow to oranges and burgundy red. This is just feet from a playground and a metro bus stop, so BEWARE in your travels and haunts where you step! Have a wonderful Halloween!