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If you are like most homeowners then you wage a constant battle with weeds in your yard. Many homeowners these days are trying to find alternatives to the commercially made herbicides currently found on the market today. Using a natural weed killer can be just as effective as chemical weed killers and the exposure of your family and pets to toxic chemicals is no longer an issue.
The manufacturers of these chemical weed killers and even the government say that using these toxic chemicals do not pose a risk to people but for many the long term affects of these chemicals is still not known or understood. So much so that they have found more natural ways to deal with the weeds in their lawns and gardens.
While there are many different recipes out there for a natural weed killer most of them are based off the following ingredients.
1 gallon of white vinegar.
1 cup of table salt.
1 tablespoon of liquid dish soap.
Mix everything together making sure the salt is completely dissolved. You can then pour this into a spray bottle or one of those weed sprayers you can get at any garden center. You spray this solution directly on the weeds you want to get rid of preferably on a hot day. One thing to remember with this solution is to not get it on anything you don’t want to kill and don’t spray it on the soil. It is non-selective in what it kills meaning it will kill any plant life it comes in contact with and it will sterilize the soil for up to two years depending on how much you get on the soil.
If you don’t want to spray this natural weed killer solution near your desirable plants you can wipe the solution on the leafy surface of the weeds you wish to kill with a cloth. It is advisable that you wear rubber gloves to do this as the vinegar solution is acidic and can burn sensitive skin.
Using a natural weed killer is a great way to get rid of those nasty weeds that seem to pop-up every summer. It is also a great way to protect your family and pets from the unknown affects of commercially available weed killers.
Andrew Bicknell is a writer and researches and writes about a variety of subjects. For more information about Making Natural Weed Killer Click Here.
» left by Larry from Chandler, AZ (1 year 174 days ago.)
This article was great for us, since we had lost the newspaper article that had the recipe. We have been using the distilled white vinegar, salt & liquid soap combo for a couple of years and haven't killed anything but weeds. It really does work, but the salt must be fully disolved in the mixture. Respond to this comment
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