Recipe for homemade weedkiller
Stark Mad
Mix one gallon of white vinegar with one pound of common table salt.
Put the mixture in a spray bottle and spray weeds generously.
My dad passed this recipe on to me, and it works great. A few
die-hard weeds may require two or three applications, but the stuff
really works! :-)
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Bob Dickow
> Here's a safe and effective way to kill weeds:
> Mix one gallon of white vinegar with one pound of common table salt.
> Put the mixture in a spray bottle and spray weeds generously.
> My dad passed this recipe on to me, and it works great. A few
> die-hard weeds may require two or three applications, but the stuff
> really works! :-)
Prob'ly does work, but repeated uses will no doubt result in some
nasty salt build-up in the soil. Plants hate sodium. All plants.
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> Here's a safe and effective way to kill weeds:
>
> Mix one gallon of white vinegar with one pound of common table salt.
> Put the mixture in a spray bottle and spray weeds generously.
>
> My dad passed this recipe on to me, and it works great. A few
> die-hard weeds may require two or three applications, but the stuff
> really works! :-)
Well it may kill the weeds, but will anything grow on the ground afterwards
if it gets to contain lots of salt? I'm less worried about the acid vinegar -
I reckon that would be neutralised fairly quickly.
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Andy Hill
> Here's a safe and effective way to kill weeds:
> Mix one gallon of white vinegar with one pound of common table salt.
> Put the mixture in a spray bottle and spray weeds generously.
>
no way! Salt accumulates, unless you REALLY flush the soil. If you really
don't like chemical controls, then just use boiling water...
G.Wolmershaeser [Chemie]
Here's a safe and effective way to kill weeds:
Mix .... vinegar with .... table salt.
Could you please explain the word "s a f e" in your recipe?
The effective ingredient of vinegar is acetic acid. You don't need acid
rain to kill nature you do it with vinegar! Table salt is NaCl. Chloride
ions are poison your soil. Few plants can live there. So once again,
what is "s a f e"?
Gotthelf Wolmershaeuser
Gotthelf Wolmershaeuser, FB Chemie, Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany
Stark Mad
>>In article <2utl19$e...@search01.news.aol.com>, star...@aol.com
(Stark Mad) writes:
>>> Here's a safe and effective way to kill weeds:
>>>
>>> Mix one gallon of white vinegar with one pound of common table
salt.
>>> Put the mixture in a spray bottle and spray weeds generously.
>>>
>>> My dad passed this recipe on to me, and it works great. A few
>>> die-hard weeds may require two or three applications, but the
stuff
>>> really works! :-)
>>
>>Well it may kill the weeds, but will anything grow on the ground
afterwards
>>if it gets to contain lots of salt? I'm less worried about the acid
vinegar -
>>I reckon that would be neutralised fairly quickly.
I honestly can't say, but I wouldn't use this mixture in the flower
bed or in the vegetable garden. On the other hand, I *have* used it
on lawn weeds, and while some of the surrounding grass has turned
yellow on these occasions, it has rebounded.
Anybody out there have any ideas on what other effects the salt and
vinegar mixture might have on the soil and other plants in the long
and/or short run?
Stark Mad
wolm...@informatik.uni-kl.de (G.Wolmershaeser [Chemie]) writes:
>>Stark Mad wrote:
>>
>>Here's a safe and effective way to kill weeds:
>>Mix .... vinegar with .... table salt.
>>
>>
>>Could you please explain the word "s a f e" in your recipe?
>>
>>The effective ingredient of vinegar is acetic acid. You don't need
acid
>>rain to kill nature you do it with vinegar! Table salt is NaCl.
Chloride
>>ions are poison your soil. Few plants can live there. So once
again,
>>
>> what is "s a f e"?
My apologies. I guess I should have said 'safe compared to most of
the weed-killing crap that's available on the market.' Or perhaps I
should have said 'here's an alternative weed-killer.'
I didn't suggest you water your lawn or garden with the stuff, nor
did I suggest you bathe in it.
James D. Cotton
>
> Here's a safe and effective way to kill weeds:
>
> Mix one gallon of white vinegar with one pound of common table salt.
> Put the mixture in a spray bottle and spray weeds generously.
Did you or anyone try it on bindweed? I'm trying to kill it off in a
supposedly graveled area and the RoundUp costs are mounting.
Jim Cotton
j...@lanl.gov