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We played this game last week. Are you ready? What do you think this is?
Are you sure?
You know I don’t play fair, so I’ll just tell you…
It’s an herbicide drift eliminator! Ever try to kill something lame and accidentally injure your awesome stuff? If you’ve ever had a dog that wasn’t supposed to scratch his face, you have the perfect solution to your problem!
Oh, and here’s the recipe for my weed killer…
Ivory’s Non-Selective Herbicide
2c vinegar
1 T liquid soap
1 T salt
Dog cone
Mix first three ingredients in spray bottle. Will kill anything it touches. Place doggie cone over weeds. Spray, don’t pour or nothing will grow there for a while.
Ivory
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I will certainly try this recipe in my garden but usually, I just pull them out and leave them to dry on the soil; weeds turn into garden fertility compost. For the perennial weeds, I use a used can: I get all I can of the weed that I want to get rid of inside the can and then, I top the whole center of the plant with the can by pressing it into the soil with my foot. It can stay there for 1 year! When the place is infested, I hide the cans with a bit of soil so the border looks nice despite the cans everywhere.
You can do it with a milk jug too. Just cut off the bottom and a part of the top and use the same way. Thanks for the herbicide recipe.
Wow!!! thank you for the great recipe. Some of my weeds are outta control and I refuse to use chemicals.
I bet an old lamp shade would work for those who don’t have a doggie cone. I’ve been saving one – trying to figure out what I can do with it. For a large weed – place the large end down. For a small weed or in a tight space – place the small end down. I can’t wait to try it.
So clever. You could also use the dog cone in the opposite way, if you’re like me and have more weeds than plants…
This is my favorite subscription ever! A great organic weed killer recipe as well.
I have cat and dog cones that are now too small for the critters now. Amazing recycling project! Thank you.
@Janice YAY!!! I LOVE that you love my recycling project. I thought it was a SCREAM!!! On par with the baby gate as a compost sifter. HA!
@Lindsay HA! You’re funny!
@pumpkinsx3 Absolutely! Repurposing is all about using what you already got ’round the house!
@Marielle True that! As a lactose intolerant family, we have more doggie cones than milk jugs . Isn’t that CRAZY?
@Raquel This will murder them. Kid you not! HA!
@Louise C WOW! That is a great idea!!!
I love your Website. I get such a charge out of your concoctions. This will save me a lot of money and chemical contamination!
I love this idea! I too pull most everything out, weed wise, but there are time when you can’t and this will work great! Thanks for the tips.
@Hope—GOOD! Glad to be useful!
I was so excited when I read this that I went and made it and used it immediately! Thanks so much!
@jennifer You’re welcome!!!!
I can’t wait to try this! My back yard is a knee high weed garden right now and I don’t have money to pay someone to spray nor purchase the expensive herbicides! I have one question though… does it matter if the vinegar is cider or white?
Any vinegar will work.
Great Ideas. Thanks for Sharing. I have a question.. I have an area that has nutgrass( not a lot, because it has been covered by leaves from fall ). This area is around a Crepe Myrtle tree< and I believe the nutgrass is deep rooted. How long would I have to safely wait before replanting some begonias under my crepe myrtle trees, if i used this treatment?
Thank You,
Susan
Great ideas. Thanks for sharing. I can’t wait to try this herbicide treatment. How long would I have to wait after using this treatment, before I could safely plant some begonias under my Crepe Myrtle trees?
Thank You,
Susan Abel
I am concerned with volatization, as most chemicals have a temperature which causes them to evaporate and enables the toxins to spread on the wind or in the water…
I hope this works like you say! I made some and went outside and used it on the “patio” which is just concrete blocks. I want all the weeds (and grass) inbetween the cracks to be gone. I’d replace the patio since it’s horrible, but we’re just renting, so this is the best thing. Usually I’m out there trying to dig the weeds out and it’s annoying.
Here is a picture of what I’m talking about
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/hype32s/060e410e.jpg
Hi I want to try this but I’m concerned a little what happens when
it rains? will it kill the good plants or is it because there is so little
of it when it gets into the soil it doesn’t hurt anything, I see
you sprayed it around strawberry plants and that is one thing I’m
looking to control weeds around too. Please let me now soon. Thank
We are going natural because we hate chemicals and now we are getting bee’s so i really have to take care more.
It kills because contact on the leaves. It doesn’t poison the soil. You just need a barrier so that it doesn’t blow onto your other plants.
Thanks
I’ve tried this weed killer and it really works. Instead of a dog cone, I took a old coffee can and cut off the bottom. Then I cut a hole just big enough for the spray tip. No way can any of the spray hit any other plant.