Until now! I have tried a bunch of natural concoctions. Obviously, I don't want to spray an herbicide in the pen and then have the dogs walking on it, so natural was a must.
The winner killed the weeds in less than 24 hours. The recipe came from Full of Great Ideas.
spray bottle
vinegar (I just used regular white vinegar)
1/2 cup salt
squeeze of dish soap
That's it. Fill mostly full with the vinegar, add salt and the soap. Give a pretty good shake to combine and then spray away. This ended up being MUCH easier than pulling the weeds. I am just ecstatic.
Never did anything so crusty and dead look so beautiful!!
6 comments:
We are so much alike, it's scary! You're trying vinegar to kill weeds this week and I'm working on staining wood with it this week! It's just too bad we live so far away, we could have shared the big jug I bought of it! My "vinegar use" is working, too. I'll tell you about it in an e-mail.
Sounds great! Quick, cheap& easy - I have to try it!
Darlene
This is probably a better idea than the Round Up I use. :o) Congrats on your feature at Creative Princess. It was wonderful!
WAhooo!! Weeds suck and are taking over our side yard. I am trying this for sure! I am also your newest follower. I love all the comments you leave over on mindy's blog..so I figured good commenter = good blogger this is true.
Nice! Those dead weeds are beautiful. No, seriously, they have a nice patina. lol
Too funny -- I was just researching this very topic for the new house. Now I assume you were trying to kill all the plants in the pen -- wonder what I'll do if I want to preserve the grass but get rid of the weeds? This recipe, however, will be a godsend for those spots between the sidewalk. We need to seal them up, but before we do that, we need to send those weeds on their merry way. You know, I've tried the vinegar solution before -- I guess it's the salt that makes this lethal. Thanks for answering a question you didn't even know I had!
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