What is the best way to get rid of poison ivy in your yard and flower beds?

We keep pulling it out and getting the roots and all but it comes back. Sometimes in different places. What gives?

What is the best way to get rid of poison ivy in your yard and flower beds?
Weed-b-Gone and your hands(wear rubbergloves and long garments. the oils stay on the plant even after the plant is dead) Don't burn the plant. Air born oils can cause serious lung and throat problems that WILL result in a trip to the hospital. Bag pulled plants in a Yard WASTE bag labled so you don't harm others who deal with your refuse. P%26gt;I is a very insidious plant and will return if you don't get the whole thing out. Good luck and have fun... Ive been dealing with my P%26gt;I for months.
Reply:Poison ivy is tough to eradicate. But you've e done the hardest part. Now as new shoots come up spray them with roundup while they are still small. You'll most likely have to repeat this a few times. Plus poison ivy is very prolific so completely new plants will keep trying to get started.
Reply:Use Brush-B-Gon. It works great, but you probably won't get a complete kill the first time. Kill the poison ivy before you pull it; it spreads very easily.
Reply:Please don't use roundup if you have children, pets or trees it can kill any or all of them. Spraying the young shoots with vinegar on a Sunny day will burn them up. Then pull out these smaller roots as well. You should be rid of them in about one more season. Good Luck.
Reply:As an earlier answer said, p.i. is hard to get rid of. I keep it under control by pulling it up. I also will spray a systemic herbicide (weed killer) on it, but only in those areas where I do not have plants I want to keep. At times I have taken a bottle of herbicide concentrate, found a shoot of poison ivy, cut it so that an open shoot is exposed, then dipped the shoot into the concentrate. My hope was that the weed killer would race through the plant's system and kill it at its point of origin. I wil admit that this did not always work, perhaps b/c the weed killer was very old. But many times it has worked.
Reply:Napalm.