What is the best homemade Weed Killer and How Do You Make It?

Answer 1

boiling salt water

Answer 2

Best non poison weed killer is opaque black plastic tarp. It will deprive the weeds of light and they will soon wilt and die. When you lay down the plastic weight down the edges with a old hose or 2"x 4" scraps start this special stew in an empty spray bottle: put a can of beer into the bottle , cheaper the better, along with a table spoon of dish washing soap and in a net bag(or toe of an old knee high stocking!) put a couple of broken up cigarettes tied to a string and lower the tobacco into the mix and let it soak for the whole week. Check the tarp after a week to see if the weeds are all shriveled up and dead ...You'll get a lot of pill bugs and those nasty pincher bugs living under this while your killing off the weeds and that is what your spray is for ...organic bug killer! The alcohol from the beer (de natured alcohol works great too!) acts as a solvent for the tobacco juices which is the poison and the dishwashing soap is a surfactant : it breaks the surface tension so the sprayed on stuff can penetrate into the bugs exoskeleton! The idea is to get as many as you can without soaking the soil...use good aiming and the stream squirt not spray...we don't want to harm any worms living below the surface. Pick them off if you aren't to sissy! Take a flat shovel and dig under the dead weeds and be carefully not to scatter any of the seeds from the weeds back onto the sanitized dirt. You have to control all, the areas around the patch for weeds or they will be back with the first winds and rains. Always pull a weed when you see one ...take a few minutes to scout them up and they will be less of a headache down the road! You don't want to start in with chemicals...bad bad for the earth and out water supply and that goes for liquid fertilizers too!

Answer 3

While there are many different recipes out there for a homemade weed killer most of them are based off of the following:

• 1 gallon of white vinegar.

• 1 cup of table salt.

• 1 tablespoon of washing up liquid.

Mix everything together making sure the salt is completely dissolved.
You can then pour this into a spray bottle or one of those weed sprayers you can get at any garden center.
You spray this solution directly on the weeds you want to get rid of preferably on a hot day. One thing to remember with this solution is to not get it on anything you don’t want to kill and don’t spray it on the soil.
It is non-selective in what it kills meaning it will kill any plant life it comes in contact with and it will sterilize the soil for up to two years depending on how much you get on the soil.

Answer 4

I use 3 parts white vinegar to 1 part dish detergent and saturate the weeds. A day or two later the weed is dead, I haven't had any come back. Be careful though, it will kill any grass or plant it comes into contact with.

Answer 5

Santa Claus mixture, hoe, hoe, hoe.

Gasoline and Salt are toxic to the soil...they can kill nearby plants. Vinegar is not strong enough, the type that is being used in experiments in weed control is not available to the market.

Answer 6

salt kills, liquid soap dehydrates and hot water dissolves the salt so it can be sprayed have fun and kill em all !

Answer 7

Gasoline. 87 octane.