I was reading about this last year and I looks very easy. This time of year, when everything is just turning green and the plants are starting to grow, spraying ordinary household vinegar (5-10% concentration) on weeds will kill them. If the plants are mature, regular household vinegar will not be strong enough to kill them, so it is important to spray them while they are young. When using vinegar, spot spray plants, covering the leaves.
If plants are older, higher vinegar concentrations may be needed. These can be purchased at Farm & Ranch, Rohde’s Nursery, and Bio Control.
Vinegar is a natural product made by anaerobic decomposition of plant matter. Household vinegar is most often made from apple cider, grapes or grains. Immediately after application, the surrounding soil will have a lower pH than normal, however, this condition will dissipate naturally in about 48 hours, sooner if it rains. Vinegar is essentially acetic acid which breaks down naturally and will not accumulate in soils like chemical herbicides do. It won’t wash into water sheds, streams, rivers, pollute wells, accumulate in the food chain, or harm wildlife. It is also pretty cheap.
Vinegar is great for a lot of things. We use as dilute solution for cleaning. Never heard about using it to kill weeds though. Thanks for the tip.
There are lots of good uses for vinegar. My wife is a school teacher, she rinses her hair with it if one of her kids gets head lice, which happens more often than you might think. One thing to note, it goes well on salads, etc, but it does not spice up the love life if used as a hair rinse…
It works well.. we use it on our driveway. Another solution (for places wehre you have brick or stone you don’t want acid etched) is boiling water… kills the roots.