Yes i read that, I'm asking if anyone has a home remedy, my 80 year old friend made contact with it by grabbing it and pulling it out, I will try to get pics of her hands for you today...talk about HARSH..looks like she stuck her hands in acid.
She rubbed her hands with an Aloe Vera plant and started screaming, what wiki didn't say...is this like poision oak...can it be passed by touching her hands, or if she touches her face?
Keep in mind, We Canadians have never seen this plant before...all of a sudden it's popping up.
Talk about nature fighting back.
I'm looking for someone from EU that has seen or been exposed to this plant.
Part of my garden is covered in the stuff (it grows wild round here) and it is nasty stuff. The only advice I've been given is don't make contact with it.
All I do is go out when I get a moment and cut down a section of plants, then splash the area in weed killer.
If it has already started seeding then you're already too late to stop it coming back next year as the seeds can lay dormant for up to 50 years (according to the book I used). I just used some cheapo weed killer. The guy up the roads advice was jut take a strimmer to them and cut them down to ground level then use lots of weed killer and finally cover the whole area with carpet, black bags, anything to stop sunlight getting to what is left of the pants. The following year you can take it off, and you should be clear.
OMG, just got a call from the hospital saying my 80 year old friend has been admitted to the hospital and is now on a ventilator, she touched her face, and while she does have asthma , this is to much...die while weeding your garden.
O.O
mental note: always remember to research about unknown plants before touching them (or breathing near them).
I'm really impressed about what happened to your friend. Hope he gets well.
About the plant, my advice would be: build a house on that land, I bet it won't come back. ;-/
When I saw the subject and the poster of this thread I assumed it would be about obtaining herbal cannabis for his large pet pig, but it's about gardening and plant related stuff! I'm am both confused and pleasantly suprised, hopefully threads like this will minimise our forums carbon footprint. [etals:]
My friend is going to be ok, although her hands will be useless for a couple of weeks. Doc said some peopel suffer the effects of that plant for years, even exposing the affected area to direct sunlight can be painful.
Ach see them everyday. Just cut them with a strimmer (safely) then dump gallons of tescos own brand weedkiller all over it then cover it up away from the sunlight. Simple in theory.
hiid-karuputk?
it's around here also as i'm aware...
edit* i remember now that i've seen it few times before, it was few meters high. (i was in school back then and it seemed to be twice as tall as me , teacher strictly forbidded us even to go near them)
Some people might get confused and mix them up with rather similiar looking(smaller) and harmless plant what grows on almost every field.
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, teacher strictly forbidded us even to go near them)