Vinegar is probably the all around best option. I'd be careful not to salt ground with any possibility you have metal pipes below the area. The salt is very corrosive and you might exchange a weed problem for a plumbing problem.
The pasta water isn't working because the cooking water wasn't salted. When your Italian grandma finished cooking pasta for dinner in pretty heavily salted water she took the cooking water out to the yard after dinner to pour it on the weeds in her garden. Grandma didn't waste salt if it could do two jobs for her. She probably also used the dregs from her teapot to water her African violets, sour milk on plants with powdery mildew and soapy water from washing dishes on aphids and spider mites.
Just yesterday, I read that you pour cooled pasta water on your nightshade plants to feed them phosphorus. I don't want to do this if it's going to kill my plants!
We use vinegar exclusively after trying a lot of stuff, but we use a much stronger vinegar solution, usually 15% up to even 30% for poison ivy, these days. You need gloves, and you sure don't want to get it in your face, but it kills whatever you spray it on, and quickly, and rain neutralizes it quickly, unlike a heavy salt solution, so it's good if you only want to kill a particular weed but not prevent anything from growing in the same spot. It doesn't always kill the roots, so some things will need multiple applications, but it sure works. We buy 30-40% vinegar and dilute it with water in the spray bottle.
Vinegar is probably the all around best option. I'd be careful not to salt ground with any possibility you have metal pipes below the area. The salt is very corrosive and you might exchange a weed problem for a plumbing problem.
The pasta water isn't working because the cooking water wasn't salted. When your Italian grandma finished cooking pasta for dinner in pretty heavily salted water she took the cooking water out to the yard after dinner to pour it on the weeds in her garden. Grandma didn't waste salt if it could do two jobs for her. She probably also used the dregs from her teapot to water her African violets, sour milk on plants with powdery mildew and soapy water from washing dishes on aphids and spider mites.
Vinegar is an acid and soap is a base. They cancel each other out.
Just yesterday, I read that you pour cooled pasta water on your nightshade plants to feed them phosphorus. I don't want to do this if it's going to kill my plants!
Hi my friend what’s the best weed killer for around the base of trees and bushes that be great if you could tell me Keith?
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We use vinegar exclusively after trying a lot of stuff, but we use a much stronger vinegar solution, usually 15% up to even 30% for poison ivy, these days. You need gloves, and you sure don't want to get it in your face, but it kills whatever you spray it on, and quickly, and rain neutralizes it quickly, unlike a heavy salt solution, so it's good if you only want to kill a particular weed but not prevent anything from growing in the same spot. It doesn't always kill the roots, so some things will need multiple applications, but it sure works. We buy 30-40% vinegar and dilute it with water in the spray bottle.
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