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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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How many applications of salt water, vinegar and soap does it take to kill weeds?
Can this home made mixture be sprayed on?
 
(quoted from post at 15:18:55 07/28/21) How many applications of salt water, vinegar and soap does it take to kill weeds?
Can this home made mixture be sprayed on?
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don't know about your recipe, I use the one on the internet with vinegar, salt and dish soap. Yes, it sprays well from a cheap, plastic sprayer. The downside is I have to apply it several times throughout the summer. It kills right away, but they come back in a few weeks.
 
I use 1 cup salt 1 gallon vinagar and a little dish soap. Kills weeds faster than roundup at least around my house. I just use a 1 gallon sprayer only down side is if i done get the salt dissolved it plugs up sprayer so i mix it up the night before than shake sprayer befor use. I've sprayed twice this year and not sure if I'm going to have to do it again.
 
(quoted from post at 19:16:14 07/28/21) What if you used a coffee filter to filter the solid salt out of vinagar?
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Just in case your question was not response baiting......

WHAT?
Why put salt in if you gonna filter it out???
 

P.S.
I use 99% acetic acid vinegar and dilute it with 75% water and 5% soap.
Even that 25% acid only kills off the above ground green stuff.

Then it grows again
 
Use only dissolved salt. Solid Salt will
choke screen filters in front of spray
nozzles.
If I can't spray it, I'll continue using
roundup.
 
I forget what a friend gave me as there was maybe two sot glasses full of it in the bottom of the jug and i mixed it in a gallon and a half of water a shot of dawn and went to spraying along my fence the side walk , the turn around and around the house . We had CARDBOARD BROWN for three years before anything came back. Maybe i should have only used one shot glass full.
 
Are the weeds that were sprayed coming back, or are new weeds germinating in their place? There's a spot where my grandfather's cows hung out for decades that I can spray with glyphosate and everything growing dies, but as soon as the light hits the bare soil where they were, new seeds germinate. Must be one heck of a seed bank there.
 
Many of those type long lasting products are not available any more. At least not without a lot of paperwork and training.

Salt flats and salty muck lands and Dead Sea areas are sterilized by salt, acidic ground doesnt grow good crops beyond blueberries. So Im not sure why a person would feel good using those products.

They burn off the kraut on top, they dont kill the weed roots long term.

Depends what you are trying to kill, grasses, annual broadleaves, per annual broadleaves, as to what really works.

Paul
 
round up is about useless around here for spraying on weeds. I use 24D for broad leaves. For grasses in beans and broad leaves Liberty is the magic product. The soap vinegar and acid is a joke. turns them yellow and they just snap out of it and grow faster.
 
keep peeing on them and it will do the about the same thing. not going to kill them with one application.
 
I just use round up and 2 4d. There will be some come back but you can usually knock that little bit back quick. I used to add atrazine but it made way too much of a mess in my sprayer. With my kubota rtv and a 12 volt sprayer I can get it done pretty quick. Best trick I have learned over the years is buy the cheap 15 gallon sprayer at rural king. The pump is not as aggressive as most and a tank will last a lot longer between fill ups
 
No, we actually didnt start using herbicides until the mid 90s. Dad had some 24D sprayed every now and then on the corn, otherwise not much until modern times.

Paul
 

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I have to ask why???? Is there some kind of personal satisfaction in concocting something from everyday household ingredients? Or is it the satisfaction of beating the big bad manufacturers out of the business? Or is it that somehow because it is available in components on the store shelf it has to be better for the planet than the same thing ready made in the other store next door?
 
Within 3 weeks this weed came back after spraying with a blend of RM43 and 2 4 D.
Any permanent or longer lasting fix?
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Geo, they are not the same plant. Kill one, there are 10 others in the same square inch just about to break above ground surface. weed seeds are very small.
 
Replace your flying nun sprayer so that the weeds get sprayed and covered with killer , your probley not getting enough coverage on the ground
 
wife tried that on creeping Charlie. only ------ her off, grabbed the mix of tordon and 2,4-d, no more creeping Charlie
 
(quoted from post at 12:18:55 07/28/21) How many applications of salt water, vinegar and soap does it take to kill weeds?
Can this home made mixture be sprayed on?
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I tried it onetime on a graveled driveway. Had no effect at all on the weeds, but the driveway smelled like pickles for a few days after.
 
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I have to ask why???? Is there some kind of personal satisfaction in concocting something from everyday household ingredients? Or is it the satisfaction of beating the big bad manufacturers out of the business? Or is it that somehow because it is available in components on the store shelf it has to be better for the planet than the same thing ready made in the other store next door?
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henever you see that recipe on the internet, it's boasted as being environmentally and pet friendly. ymmv
 
(quoted from post at 07:10:28 07/29/21)

I have to ask why???? Is there some kind of personal satisfaction in concocting something from everyday household ingredients? Or is it the satisfaction of beating the big bad manufacturers out of the business? Or is it that somehow because it is available in components on the store shelf it has to be better for the planet than the same thing ready made in the other store next door?
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In my case, I need to kill weeds in the dog's area, and I am reluctant to soak them with herbicides when she plays in the area and is known to eat the grass, so this mix sounds useful to me. Pickling may kill the grass and weeds, but it won't the dog, I wouldn't think.
 
(quoted from post at 13:06:45 07/29/21)
(quoted from post at 07:10:28 07/29/21)

I have to ask why???? Is there some kind of personal satisfaction in concocting something from everyday household ingredients? Or is it the satisfaction of beating the big bad manufacturers out of the business? Or is it that somehow because it is available in components on the store shelf it has to be better for the planet than the same thing ready made in the other store next door?
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In my case, I need to kill weeds in the dog's area, and I am reluctant to soak them with herbicides when she plays in the area and is known to eat the grass, so this mix sounds useful to me. Pickling may kill the grass and weeds, but it won't the dog, I wouldn't think.
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Steven, you could use any one of most of the popular mainstream herbicides in perfect safety for your dog by simply following the twenty pages of cautions attached to the label.
 
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(quoted from post at 13:06:45 07/29/21)
(quoted from post at 07:10:28 07/29/21)

I have to ask why???? Is there some kind of personal satisfaction in concocting something from everyday household ingredients? Or is it the satisfaction of beating the big bad manufacturers out of the business? Or is it that somehow because it is available in components on the store shelf it has to be better for the planet than the same thing ready made in the other store next door?
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In my case, I need to kill weeds in the dog's area, and I am reluctant to soak them with herbicides when she plays in the area and is known to eat the grass, so this mix sounds useful to me. Pickling may kill the grass and weeds, but it won't the dog, I wouldn't think.
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Steven, you could use any one of most of the popular mainstream herbicides in perfect safety for your dog by simply following the twenty pages of cautions attached to the label.
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he other consideration that I failed to mention is that you can buy a lot of vinegar for the price of one gallon of roundup.
 
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