Killer Homemade Weed Killer Using Household Ingredients Instead of Roundup

True facts about weeds:

• Fact #1: The spring and summer months bring weeds. 
• Fact #2: Pulling weeds sucks.
• Fact #3: Chemicals suck. Exposure to children, pets, and even You sucks big time! 
• Fact #4: Making an organic homemade weed killer from everyday household ingredients that isn't toxic doesn't suck!

You only need a couple ingredients for this homemade weed killing concoction. This is for a gallon, but you can easily cut in half or quarter.

Ingredients:

• 1 liter (about 1/4 gal.) Vinegar - 5% is fine, cheaper is better!
• 1 tbsp Dish Soap - again, cheaper is better!

Optional: WARNING Increasing the salinity of the soil, which salt does, prevents most plants from growing. So if other plants are sharing this soil, DO NOT add salt. Salt does not biodegrade so it stays in the soil. Not until it can leach into other soil will it loose its concentration. An ideal use for salt would be like that of the image above, between the cracks of bricks where nothing should be growing in the first place.

Optional Ingredient (USE WITH CAUTION):

•  1/4 cup table salt

Mix all this up and place into a sprayer of some sort. Make sure you have a sunny hot day, and no chance of rain. If not using salt, just spray the leaves of the weeds and watch them wilt within hours. If using salt, you will need to drench the soil as well so that it makes its way down toward the roots.

The vinegar will kill the leaves, the salt will kill the roots. What about the dish soap? The dish soap breaks the surface tension and allows the vinegar to actually stick to the leaves of the weeds so it can do its dirty work; the dish soap doesn't actually do any weed killing of its own. The leaves should start to wilt and turn brown the same day.

If not using salt, you may need to reapply the solution several times. While the leaves will die most likely the day you spray it, new growth may reemerge. By reapplying, photosynthesis will be obstructed and the plant will eventually die.

Please understand that this concoction is non-selective as it will kill virtually any form of vegetation it comes into contact with. Please protect desired plant life from over-spray. Please don't use salt if you are spraying flowerbeds or weeds with neighboring plants, or the salt could make the soil undesirable for all.

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