Homemade Weed Killer
This homemade weed killer recipe is an effective, but less harmful environmentally harmful alternative to commercial weed killers.
Ingredients
- 1 gallon of 30% vinegar or 45% vinegar
- 1 cup of table salt
- 1 good squirt about 1 tablespoon of Dishwashing Liquid
Instructions
- Pour the salt into the vinegar container so that it dissolves prior to pouring it into your garden sprayer. Shake it to dissolve the salt or let it sit for more than 20 minutes. You want the salt fully dissolved so that it doesn't clog the uptake hose of your sprayer.
- Add the salt/vinegar mixture to the sprayer tank
- Add 1 tablespoon or 1 good squirt of dishwashing liquid.
- Spray the solution on the leaves of the weeds you want to kill. Be very careful to minimize contact with the surrounding soil. You may need multiple applications to fully kill some weeds without harming the soil.
Notes
How to store Homemade Weed Killer
I don't store already mixed vinegar weed killer in the sprayer for longer than a month. It really is quite caustic and will eat the rubber gaskets of your sprayer. If you need to store it longer than a month, use the bottle that the vinegar originally came in. Tried this? Love it? Let us know how it was!