Buying garden chemicals is always risking your health and that of your family. Chemicals will never be healthy for people, the environment, or any living things around them. But you don’t have to think that it is the only option to have a healthy garden, you can create your own herbicide with vinegar and without adding anything else.
Vinegar alone
Bench vinegar is the most used to create herbicides, although I must also tell you that any vinegar you have at home will work for you. There are many types of vinegar that exist, the most popular is undoubtedly apple cider, although in general the strongest vinegars will depend on the acidity of the vinegar, and the higher the acidity it has, the greater power it will have to kill weeds. Next, I’m going to give you some recipes for you to create your own vinegar weed killer.
Vinegar alone has enough strength to kill weeds. Undiluted vinegar has 18% and may be enough for your weeds. You can put a little vinegar in a spray to always have it ready.
Vinegar and soap
This herbicide consists of mixing dish soap with a glass of vinegar undiluted in water. This mixture can be twice as potent as an insecticide, but much cheaper and also without harming your health or harming the environment. You must be careful when using it, because just as it can kill weeds it can also kill plants that are good. In this sense, you will have to be careful not to spray this homemade herbicide on your flowers or plants.
Vinegar, soap, water, and salt
To make this homemade weed killer, you’ll need to mix a cup of vinegar with a cup of salt and a tablespoon of dish soap. Mix it all together and spray on your weeds, but be very careful not to spray where it doesn’t belong!
Remember that homemade herbicides are potent and just as they can kill plants, they can kill other plants that you don’t want to die. In addition, you also have to keep in mind that vinegar kills bacteria, mold and germs (for example in the kitchen), but there are bacteria in the soil of your garden that are beneficial, so you will have to prevent liquid from the herbicide from falling into the soil because it would be sterilized for at least two years and you would not be able to plant anything.
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