The weeds are coming, the weeds are coming
Tis the season to be pulling weeds. That’s right, its summer and that means your lawn, and your garden and your flowerbed will be threatened with the dreaded weeds. Of course, many store sell weed killer, but the question is always there on whether they work and are they bad for the environment and our health. But, there is an alternative in the form of weed killers that are all natural and do just as good of a job if not better. Here is the run down one weed killers that work.
1. Boiling water: You may be thinking, sure that’ll work, but it truly does. Boil the coffee kettle full of water and pour it on the weed. Wait a few days and it will be dead. Pull pout by hand.
2. Rock salt: This works great on driveways and walkways cluttered with weed or moss. Just sprinkle around where the weeds and the moss are and wash with a hose later. Be sure and only hit the weeds though or you may kill your prized rose bush in the process.
3. Vinegar: It’s all natural and it kills the root as well so no pulling later. You can spray in from a spray bottle right on the weeds and sweep away the pesky things later with a broom.
4. Water: Water sprayed from a power spray really worked best on moss, but if you soak the ground where the weeds are you can get a hold of them and pull them out with ease. You may have to repeat the process a few times, but in the end the weeds will lose.
For more information on weed control in a better way visit USDA Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Invasives Network and Bureau of Land Management Weed website.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Boiling water on weeds is a great idea. Do you think this would work on a nuisance of a spouse?
May 31st, 2009 at 11:32 am
Haha. Their roots go pretty deep, so you may have to get something a lot stronger than hot water.