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Steph's backyard is basically nothing but pea gravel and pavers, with absolutely
no grass. It was this way when she moved in. Because it is so shady back there,
grass is really not an option. What does grow back there are weeds and lots of
them!
It's been a particularly healthy growing season for weeds this summer. It would
be impossible to pull all of them so we started to look for a chemical way to
kill them.
We wanted to steer clear of treatments such as Round-Up, due to the potential
danger to Mac, Steph's dog, should she eat one of the poisoned weeds. We
investigated natural methods and came across a method using vinegar.
Caution: To be clear, we do not know if this method is safe for animals. We do
know from research that using the vinegar and salt formula will leave the dirt
on which it is used sterile. That is, nothing is going to grow there in the
future. So, for example, you wouldn't use it to clear out weeds in a garden and
then go back and plant vegetables and expect them to grow.
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Here's a small section of the backyard. Those are just a few of the weeds that
have grown up into the pea gravel in Steph's backyard.
We are using a weed killer formula that uses vinegar. For our first try we are
using household white vinegar that is 5% acidic. (The bottle on the left.)
The formula is one gallon of vinegar, one cup of table salt, and about a
tablespoon of Dawn dishwashing liquid. We put this into a battery powered garden
sprayer although you can use a hand pump one. Whatever you use, it is important
to throughly clean it out once you are finished.
Be sure to work on a very sunny day with no chance of rain. We noticed some of
the weeds started to wilt within an hour of application.
This is after spraying with the household vinegar formula. It did a good job on
young, non-vine or creeping weeds. What is still green are the vines and
creepers. It also did not work on grasses at all.
We then mixed up a batch of the weed killer using the 30% vinegar. We could not
find this locally so we ordered from Amazon. Since it was stronger, we put it
into a spray bottle so we could have better control of the overspray. It is
important to keep this OFF the plants you want to keep. TIP: wear a mask,
preferably a respiratory type one as well as eye protection as this stuff is
strong! I also wore gloves.
This is the same spot as in the picture before. As you can see, the 30% took
care of everything. We will monitor this to see if anything will grow here
again.
Here is the after of the driveway where it meets the road.
We sprayed this patch of grass with the 30% vinegar formula and within an hour,
it was starting to brown.
This is the same grass after using the DIY weed killer.
Once everything was wilted and brown, we pulled up all the dead weeds leaving
the rocks visible again.
This method worked well in Steph's backyard. Since she doesn't want anything to
grown in the rocks, it was perfect for her backyard. From what I've read, this
vinegar/salt formula can damage the soil it touches so keep that in mind when
deciding if this method is right for your yard.
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* Donna Glenn on Mar 24, 2022
How long before the weeds returned?
Does the solution reach the roots?
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* MillieS on Mar 24, 2022
will try it, need to kill grass roots between brick walkway Don't want them
to come back. Question: the 30% vinegar it says to dilute it, do you or use
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Did you also add the dawn & salt to the shine vinegar or use it alone?
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* Sherri schmidt on Apr 01, 2022
I have used this mixture for several years. Love it! Doesn't hurt my dogs. It
works faster than Roundup and is safer! I think if it is sprayed heavily and
directed at the root and saturated, it will kill the root too. I have used
this over a fairly large area under where we park our motorhome before
putting down gravel. I hit areas where crab grass re-emerges from time to
time as well as dandelions.
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* R Joy Lawson-Cummings on May 21, 2022
I have used this on my property ND it worked well. I had an area of
dandelions that I sprayed, it didn't seem to do and damage to the wends, but
the deer lived them with "salad dressing" and aeevery flower before they bec
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