How to Make a Cheap, Organic Herbicide for Less Than $2 a Gallon

A lot of folks are catching on now that our environment is under serious attack from the toxic chemical makers. Dow Chemical, Monsanto and several other manufacturers all just seem to keep coming up with toxic solutions for everything. Monsanto's "Round-Up" weedkiller is a nasty batch of highly toxic chemicals that are extremely harsh on the environment. Remember that these poisons can be immediately harmful to wildlife, pets and to humans if handled inappropriately. They are also known to eventually leach into well water, ground water, and the aquifer. We all want to avoid these adverse effects while keeping our yards in good shape.

Making your own organic batch of weedkiller at home is cheap and easy to do. All you need is a gallon of vinegar and one cup of salt. Just buy a gallon of no-brand vinegar, and add one cup of salt to it. You need to empty out a little vinegar from the bottle first to make room for the salt. Shake it to help dissolve the salt, and when all the salt disappears you are ready to go. It takes about ten minutes for the mixture to completely go into solution when doing it this way. Boiling the mixture can also be used for dissolving the ingredients. Either method you choose, the results will be satisfactory.

Now you can pour it directly onto weeds, or use it in a spray bottle. I use a spray bottle and thoroughly soak all the leaves on the weeds. It works especially well on those weeds that grow through your driveway and sidewalk cracks. For less than $2.00, you get a whole gallon of organic herbicide, and you are also contributing to the green movement. Some people add a squirt of dish soap to the solution for a little better result. The dish soap slows the evaporation of the vinegar which quickens the weed killing time. There are also a few other variations to this recipe that are used, such as adding two cups of salt to make the solution more potent. Clove oil is another good additive to give the solution a little more strength.

The best time to spray is when the weeds are seeding, as this prevents future spreading. Also spraying the cracks in early spring is a good deterrent. You will see results in just a few hours, as the weeds start to wither and turn brown. Give the solution a few days to get down to the roots, then just pull the whole weed out.

Listed In the Weed Killer.Net website are several of the popular brands of weedkillers available, with the toxic chemicals used in each product. It is worth your time to look this site over if you are serious about the green movement. Also listed are a a few other organic weed killing ideas. Citrus oil, clove oil, and boiled egg water are a few of the alternative methods you may wish to try for different results.

Please see the pictures above to see the actual time-lapsed results of applying this vinegar solution to a weed in my driveway.

Thanks for reading folks, and please go green.