Nightshade question
burn it? I have a pretty good pile that I've pulled out from the property edge, and we are burning as soon as the corn is down. I am wondering if I can burn it. I know you can't burn poison ivy since we did that once by accident. Huge mistake. I don't want to learn this one the hard way. Thanks Shellie |
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| I would think you could burn it - but just a guess.
I'm curious for the "official" answer. |
| well according tot he veterinary medicine online encyclopedia:
Control Animals should be kept away from fields with heavy infestation of nightshade. Plants should be mowed or pulled up while in flower, and burned. Remove green parts of potatoes before cooking, eat only ripe tubers |
| They actually say to burn it? Wow! Great to know.
I will do it then. Thanks a bunch. Shellie |
| I would ask more questions - if Nightshade causes allergic reactions - I would be hesitant tot burn it myself without mor ethan Internet support. |
| Nightshade is closely related to tobacco......so one of the releases is nicotine.
Assuming you don't have bella donna, but rather one of several nightshades, you are dealing with maining solanine, a glycoalkaloid, mainy toxic by injestion. I can't find data of burning and toxic problems. If you are uncomfortable about buring it, don't. |
 sorry belladona always reminds me of that Sandra Bullock movie Practical Magic. those were some of the best scenes  |
| What happens if you burn poison ivy? |
| The oils go into the air and can easily cause reactions in people's lungs, eyes, etc. It is VERY dangerous, life threatening. |
| Poison ivy - huge mistake. HUGE
I can't think of any other way to get rid of this nightshade. We have no allergies that we know of, and I haven't been able to find anything about not burning it anywhere. We have no yard waste pick up at all and if they find it in a bag we will have garbage all over the yard. They will dump the bags, and then we will be looking for another hauler. Shellie |
| You could dig a hole and bury it with just a little bleach. *
* I have no idea if that would really work or not. Sounds good to me though. |
| Dig a hole and bury it......NO BLEACH! Mother Nature will take care of it naturally. |
| Call your local cooperative extension and ask them.
Or a local college. |
| Sheepieboss- I was going to bury it, but I'm
afraid I will only make it worse for next year. Shellie |
CamVal1 wrote: Call your local cooperative extension and ask them.
Or a local college. That's exactly what I was going to say, Mark. Call you local agricultural cooperative. They should be able to tell you exactly how to get rid of it. Good luck!!  |
Quote: Sheepieboss- I was going to bury it, but I'm
afraid I will only make it worse for next year. Yeah, it probably would if you bury ripe seed. How about putting into plastic bags and sending to the dump? Personally I'd have no qualms about burning it, but I'd add so crisp dry stuff to make a hot fire, little smoke.......and stand upwind. We have silverleaf nightshade here and I burn it with great glee, problem is it has perennial roots so I'm just satisfying a need to see destruction without true elimination. True elimination here is thru Roundup. |
| The garbage people won't take it and nobody takes
weeds.  So, burn it is.
I think I made the whole situation worse when I hand tilled the garden for the first time this spring. What had been a few minor plants is now out of hand. Ok, moving on to the next disaster. Shellie |
| Each time you tilled over the area you chopped the plants' roots into smaller bits, each of which made a new plant. Now Roundup is your only answer. Sun sterilzation (plastic) over the area may not go deep enough to kill the roots......those buggers. So, cordon off that section of the garden, let the darn stuff grow (you can chop it down during the season to weaken it) but come July or when it starts to flower, when the plants start storing carbohydrates spray every 10 days with Roundup.....3x total. Roundup is not something you want in a vegetable garden, least overspray gets onto the plants. But since it doesn't translocate thru the soil, you don't have to worry about soil drift.
Silverleaf and I are "good friends"......does your nightshade have the darned prickly/thorny stems? (as for tossing it out........time for a dump run. We often hide our weeds in sacks under the other junk going to the dump  ) |
| I still say bury it with a little bit of am caustic chemical. I believe bleach breaks down very quickly in the environment, but I could be wrong. It's happened before. Just ask Joan! |
| I'm not keen on chlorine bleach on the ground. Sodium hypochloride.....hmm, sodium which deflocculates (one c?) the soil, chlorine extremely toxic to all living things including soil microorganisms......no, get some BBQ fluid and burn those suckers. |
| No, it's not prickly at all, it's eastern black nightshade.
It's kinda hairy, and apparently I have uber-soil because some of it got very very big. My tomatoes were horrible from all the rain, but my nightshade is gorgeous. Go figure. Shellie |
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