Community Pick
Weed Killer at Half the Price of Round Up
photo by lazyme
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 3
- Yields:
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1 gallon
ingredients
- 2 cups table salt
- 1 gallon white vinegar (make sure it has 5 percent acidity)
- 8 drops liquid dishwashing soap, preferably Dawn
directions
- Mix this up in a large container and then put some in a spray bottle.
- Spray the offending weed or vegetation. It should die in a couple of days.
- Make sure you put your homemade round-up in a safe place.
- Enjoy your weed-free area!
Reviews
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It works! I only made a half a cup to try it out and poured it on several types of weeds in my yard. It worked on regular dandelion weeds and a tree weed but didn't work on palm tree seedlings...but if I poured more of it on them it probably would. My regular vinegar is only 4% acidity so I added some concentrated vinegar. Thanks for this all natural recipe. Made for the Zaar Stars tag game.
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You have to be JOKING! "these ingredients can damage/kill not only plants but your soil and microorganisms too. Salt is especially problematic. - corinnep" Yes, salt will do what you say! But this is a spot spray. You are not dousing the entire yard with it! So you kill microorganisms in some spots. So what! You are not killing the entire yard of microorganisms and this has to be better than chemicals that do the same thing. This works and costs way less that Roundup.<br/><br/>UPDATE: What this recipe needs is a line added to the instructions. You should heat the vinegar so the salt dissolves completely. I tried this both ways and got better results from the one that I had heated. While the salt seemed to dissolve in the batch I did not heat, it was evidently just suspended and a lot of it settled to the bottom of the container.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
breezermom
United States