When you get too old to bend down on your knee’s to pull weeds, what do you do. You use a non poisonous weed control. It will not harm the birds or other ground critters. It keeps them out of the garden area. Vinegar is the safe alternative to the other (roundup or other hazardous chemicals in use.)
Get a younger friend, or ask someone else who also loves gardening for help. Don't Humans communicate properly anymore? Oh, of course they don't, they use stupid text messages instead LOL 🙄😅 "in the end, the only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation" 👍😉😜
@@Johny40Se7en "when a man grows old, and his balls grow cold, there's many a tale he can tell to you! when it bends in the middle like a one string fiddle he don't need to lie, he'll tell it true." as i age i may learn...
This is all great information to think about. But for anyone out there who knows they aren’t going to pull weeds - please don’t resort back to round-up / Glyphosate. It’s still a better alternative until something better comes along 🤷♂️
Vinegar is the only way to eradicate weeds here in PAC NW. Overspray not an issue, soil acidification is a positive. GMO vinegar residual bs is bs. I’ve done it all, till, no till, permaculture, hog fuel and sheet mulch. I have learned it takes all those methods to be a successful gardener here. Glad that your method works for you.
Many weeds are deep rooted and cannot be pulled out. The vinegar, by killing the plant leaves, will deprive the weed of nutrients, and the root may subsequently die. Also, by killing the foliage, you prevent the weeds from seeding, preventing its spread. Yes, pulling is best, but not always possible, especially in large, difficult landscapes.
Canadian thistle is a prime example. Pulling them just makes the mother root stronger and sprouts more. Trying to keep the spray at a minimum but will use 20% vinegar to keep them at bay. I have a huge crop of them in my cardboard and wood chipped garden. Hopefully over the next few years I can weaken the plants enough that it just gives up.
Not a good idea to pull poison ivy either! I had no luck with vinegar and wasted alot of it yesterday. The leaves were just as perky and green as they always were. Those concentrated ones might work but using a regular store brand is probably useless. I have now taken to clipping off the leaves with garden shears or stomping them and will probably buy something stronger than vinegar to kill the roots. I have alot of poison ivy in my yard and clipping off the leaves is very time-consuming. I even found some huge leaves and vine growing up a tree and flowering! Some can become woody like a small tree itself. I found some of that too. This stuff has to go because I got it on my skin several times over the past few months while clearing other brush by hand because it was hiding underneath other weeds.
Vinegar and high concentrated vinegar never worked for me. Sure it killed the weeds in a day or two but the weeds would always grow back. Very frustrating.
I'm not worried so much about GMO corn derived vinegar where I use it (gravel driveway and river rock beds), but I would love to avoid any product that has had any contact with RoundUp or ANY product from Monsanto.
I have a small one I’ve never used, with a tiny nozzle, meant to clean kitchen floors, tile, etc. Will that work for me? Only had to do it once to look look like cooked cabbage? I’m so sick of pulling this crabgrass that went wild here in NE. Terrible drought!
Yeah, my mom used boiling water to kill weeds. Now she is 93 y.o. and I am about to visit her and will need to take care of those weeds. I was going to use vinegar and salt, which kills EVEry weed, but I guess the boiling water is better. @@barbarahargrove7920
Huh? I am newly widowed and the garden, which used to be my husband’s area of expertise, has fallen onto my lap. I couldn’t cope with the enormous early season growth and last week got a team of gardeners in to cut everything back before the house was overcome by all the branches. Now I have a vast pile of waste in the middle of the lawn (kept out of loyalty to my husband, who was into composting everything); and I am gradually shredding it all and putting it into compost bins. But my neighbours are worried I am attracting vermin which they do not want in their houses (nor do I!); and I have just got back from the supermarket, armed with four bottles of distilled vinegar to water down and deliver, via a watering can, onto this vast heap to deter animals and insects from making a home in it. I have a wasps nest at the far end of my garden, and a gardener was stung twice: I consider that more than enough wildlife for this long but narrow town garden. I do not want anything in my garden that is not human unless it has a root. I am one of those people who spends five minutes outside and comes back indoors covered in bites! So I think vinegar as a deterrent, is very useful for someone like me who really is only interested in the garden as something nice to look at through a window.
I hope the vinegar helped!! I am having a similar issue on my driveway which is covered in small stones (I don’t own the property but that’s how the landlord left it). I don’t drive so the driveway has become overrun with weeds as I never use it. There’s no garden near it and just an empty lot behind. I’m going to use vinegar as a safe alternative to roundup etc because trying to pull all the weeds has become an impossible task - some of them are higher than my waist D:
Vinegar is an acid. Period. I doubt that it matters at all that it came from a GMO or non-GMO product. The only problem it might create in your garden is it might acidify your soil, maybe not enough to make any difference.
Acid is in EVERYTHING. Look at what you drink… Literally ANYTHING we drink has acid in it. Period. Everything has the potential to cause cancer. Pick your poison carefully!!
So you're worried about some kind of GMO effect remaining in commercially distilled (20%+ acetic) vinegar but not the content of cardboard as feedstock for your soil. 🤣😆😂🤣
Perfect, most corrugated material is made with GMO corn starch and caustic soda (yep they mix these to make the adhesive in glue the interior fluting to the side walls) and they have done this for over 25 years that I know of probably longer.
Lol and the contaminants in cardboard especially in recycled cardboard or cardboard from China. Cardboard not rated for food contact can be treated with all kinds of stuff.
and vinegar is a byproduct of many industrial processes, so it may even come from petroleum, but chemistry is funny, acetic acid is still acetic acid indipendently from the feedstock.
I spray ground weeds with vinegar and around my floral plantings. But I don't plant food plants in the ground. I do container only and I can spray around the bottom of my containers with no problem.
Thank you Dan, I was just looking at organic solutions and vinegar was everywhere. I am going to choose, as you said, the carboard, leaves, grass clippings to control the weeds. THANK YOU! you are correct! don't need to add these chemicals to my yard, plants, fruits and veggies, and especially, kill off the little animals and bugs etc. in my yard. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the post. The info about using organic vinegar is helpful. While I agree that vinegar shouldn't be the first choice in the garden, it is definitely useful in landscape weeding, and even more so for those who are disabled, including myself. I don't have a garden, but there are landscaping beds around all of the apartments here. I do occasionally go outside with a bottle of vinegar to tackle especially aggressive weeds. I don't use industrial grade vinegar, just the regular strength stuff. That actually does a very good job, without being too hard on me. Also, because I only use it directly on the weeds, the actual landscape plants aren't harmed. A food and herb garden would do better with mulch, instead.
I am glad I stumbled upon your video. I planned to spray weeds with vinegar, albeit not in my garden. I planned to spray weeds growing up on city owned land across the street from my house that is over grown with "trash" trees and all sorts of weeds. I never thought about it killing ladybugs, butterflies, etc. I am a senior now and cannot do as much physical work as I once did. I just do not have any answers of the best way to take care of things anymore....
I got an industrial spray bottle that is designed to be bleach-safe. I use it for undiluted 5% vinegar. I've had it for years now and it still works great. For bleach, I wouldn't leave the bleach in the bottle. Better to mix just enough, then neutralize and clean the bottle when done.
I use a brush to paint the stem and leaves of the thistles in my garden with white vinegar. It works great. Just as with any other herbicide, I would not spray it over the garden.
For this brush on method does it work in shade or does it need sun to Activate. Are you using 20% horticultural or 30% industria strength vinegar? Or normal store stuff of 10%. I think. ...?..
Vinegar is created from ethanol (alcohol) by bacteria that convert it to acetic acid. Usually only trace amounts of alcohol remaining. But it originates from alcohol not fruit juice.
I had weeds and grass growing in between the pavement outside my door where I worked and used to use a weed waker ( whipper snipper here in Australia ) constantly to cut them back then one day some old dude told me to pour boiling water on them and that will kill them at the root. I tried it and came back after a couple of days the plants were dead and I just pulled them out easily!
If it's on a lawn, regularly pulling any weed or nettle and mowing seems to be get most things under control. On tarmac drives or concrete areas with no plastic sheeting beneath, where it's tricky or impossible to scrape up all of the leaves and stem without damaging the surface, direct heat is one of the best ways.
I appreciate your ideas. I've got a quandary for you to tackle, if you'd like to help. So I'm beginning to grow Lavender in Northern Colorado. I have about 30 field production acres filled to the brim with weeds. I will not use chemicals. Yet it would take a lifetime to pull them all by hand. I have been spraying weeds with organic 30% vinegar, salt & soap. I'm all for allowing some natural growth in the field between my Lavender rows. But Russian thistles 6ft tall and other weedie monsters will consume my Lavendula's nutrients. I pull & I spray all day long. So my question to you, is how do I accomplish deweeding on such a large scale any other way? This is the question that must be answered for toxic conglomerates like Monsanto to stop what they're doing and switch over to something healthier for our world too. It's a daunting task. Great channel. Thanks for doing what you're doing. It's important work.,:)
One piece of critical information. DONOT put salt anywhere you want things to grow. It is a permannet fail. Other weed control measures, success or failure, you can always try something else. There is a reasonfor the old reference of salting the fields of the enemy exists. I do like the salt vinegar mix in the crack between asphalt and concrete in my sidewalk, but that is about far enough.
@@1Daftboywhat's permanent about salt? It's probably one of the most water soluble things I can think of(there for easily leechable).Also you use the word salt like it's ONE thing, it's not. Example, my tomatoes love Epson Salt (magnesium sulfate) right on their root system. Plus arnt all synthetic Hydro nutrients just elements in their "salt" form for maximum solubility?
True, I was sloppy in my use of the term "permanent" since without a time frame it's not meaningful. Salt (NaCl) takes time to leach out of soil, time is dependent on soil stucture (sandy or clay) and how much salt was added. The quickest recovery according to my casual search was a year. A more accurate statement would be to identify salt as less chemically reactive than vinegar (acetic acid). Vinegar will be effectively gone from the soil the day after application. It will have reacted with other compounds in the soil and created some acetate salts. Salt on the other hand is still NaCl the following day. The only practical way to get ride of it is to physically remove it from the soil, i.e. leaching it out. I think of vinegar as a foliar herbicide as opposed to salt which kills from the soil since it disrupts the plants ability to absorb water and actually dries the plant out. So, I prefer to use vinegar to kill the weeds when I don't want to kill nearby plants. As an aside on the word "salt" it is true than an inorganic ionically bonded compound is effectively a " salt". I believe that the word salt in normal discussions is generally accepted to mean sodium chloride. . @@stixglass8442
I suppose it depends on your criteria. For me, plants in the garden are almost all weeds... I'm not at all a gardening guy. Vinegar, so far, is what I've used to kill off stuff encroaching on the deck pretty badly, some growing under it. I didn't want to have to dismantle the deck and go digging. I also had some moss buildup on the asphalt in the front yard, some of it quite stubborn even for a power washer. Strong vinegar with a dash of detergent so it breaks surface tension and really penetrates into the moss and two days later it was brown and dead and was very easy to power wash away the remnants. Either way, if it's between Roundup (or similar) or vinegar in a garden growing food crops, lord knows I'd rather use vinegar. It's the same vinegar I literally consume in foods to make it acidic... if I can drink it directly, I can sure see tossing some on plant if need be. For people who are really serious about the whole organic thing and using nothing at all, sure, more power to you. But as herbicides go, vinegar is probably one of the most nature friendly options you can find. One downside might be that used too much it can turn the soil acidic, which isn't good if you want something to grow on it, but you can probably counter that with a solution of bicarbonate to neutralize or something.
vinegar is my favorite herbicide. That is how I clean my brick patio and driveway cracks. I also cut the vinegar for 1 tablespoon vinegar to 1 gallon of water for acid loving plants
we use 20% kitchen vinegar ( that we use to make pickles for ourselves also ) put it in a window cleaner sprayer bottle, you could spray it to the root of the plant easy, it will be dead next day with the root itself and the sprayer allows small application doses so I don't contaminate large area of soil, because when I was weeding around the tomatos I killed few tomato plants with vinegar because it was too much and too close to the tomato plants...
I'm going to try the vinegar in my pasture, in the rock patch there, because you can do all the manual removal but thistle is going to get into place no gardening tool is skinny enough to get to.
You're right but most people aren't using vinegar in gardens like that. I use it in rock beds, my driveway...etc and not areas where you would be doing serious food gardening.
I have an acre of desert weeds. Spraying them with vinegar as soon as they pop up is our safest option. It would take me weeks (I am at work most of the day) to pull them. And if I wait that long they seed and dry quickly so the wind blows the seeds all over. It becomes a nightmare. Tumble weed is the worst as I’m highly allergic. They will grow on top of each other if there is no room. If I were retired and didn’t live in the desert I might consider leaving my vinegar. But until then…
@@chezg806 1) I do not need any meds 2) I am not sweetheart 3) take your neurones and use them. I am sure they will like it. Go and inform yourself. It makes sexy. And intelligent. You will see.
WOW. I didn't find regular grade to do anything on my weeds, so I purchased the 30%, but it doesn't have an organic label. On a side note, I find mixing V + dish soap and a brush does a very good job of eliminating algae form my patio. Baking soda can also be added
I have a neighbor that grows tall bushes along the fence between our properties and they branch over a good 4-5 feet of my lawn. I hope that by spraying that over hang with vinegar it will prevent further growth.
3:46 On another gardening channel they said that when they use mulch, that encourages a tick infestation. Have you had any problems with those and if so, what's the remedy?
As a replacement for toxic chemicals this is are sensible alternative. It is “sort of“ a derivative of a distilling process but quite the same. Not everyone is going to mulch or pull weeds.
4:00 yes that’s true, but the bindweed doesn’t care. It grows through 20 inches of woodchips and compost. It’s a nightmare! What I’m trying now is covering the affected area (400 m2) with thick black plastic to starve them of light. Then remove it after 6-8 weeks and apply a light vinegar solution. Hopefully that will kill it off. Any other tips you have are highly appreciated!
I try to use heavy mulches too but poison ivy is getting prolific around the garden and deck and there’s no way to mulch these areas. Need to avoid it spreading into the garden and growing up,the sides of the deck. Don’t have the time or energy to expend in much digging and old man always wants to use a buzz machine kill,,,which can splatter poison ivy oils….and doesn’t kill,it anyway. It’s too hardy. I’ve got flower beds around the deck and also don’t have time and energy any more to dig up everything and start over…nor money to hire it done. I’d rather mix salt and organic vinegar and pour on the ivy in its particular spots. It’s taking over….no matter what….
If vinegar works, go for it. Worst that migh happen with vinegar is you’ll accidentally splash another plant or slightly acidify your soil. Other than that it’s fine.
Thanks for the information. I would never use vinegar for weed control, mich less in a garden where there are edibles for me or other critters! -But I have used a mixture of vinegar, salt and Dawn on poison ivy with success, o I can't dismiss it out of hand.
I was reading all the comments here and thought how the Chemtrails are dumping all the crap on everything. Plants , animals and us humans. And we are worried about GMO vinegar ? Should be the least of our concerns 😳
Oooooor you can make it yourself. Start in winter and you'll have more then you need by spring. Kombucha is a great way to make vinegar. I can't drink the stuff BUUUUT I use out for lots of different things.
hula ho and hory hory ? hahahaha im glad i watched this. attempting to get rid of a japanese knotweed and i see people injecting them with herbicide so i looked up diy herbicide and it a concoction of vinegar, dish soap, and salt,... which.... in general i dont wanna use. the knotweed is in a place where theres been nothing else growing but theres still little critters to think about
I have a black clover problem in my flower beds as its taking over. I can pull the weeds and roots (especially after it rains) for days and it still comes back. I can't use commercial weed killer as it kills my myrtle ground cover. I do not use any pesticides or herbicides in my vegetable garden. The black clover has now started to germinate in my veggy garden, which I do pull out. I do not know what else to do.
Have you tried this ... if this is what you have. "How to Get Rid of Black Medic Before you start spraying chemicals or getting on your hands and knees to remove black medic, you should first understand the conditions that black medic weed likes to grow in. Black medic grows in compacted soil. This is why you most commonly find it growing by the roadside or next to sidewalks, where soil has been compacted by wheel and foot traffic. If you find it in the middle of your lawn or flower bed, you may be able to get rid of black medic for good simply by correcting your over compacted soil. In other words, black medic weed is an indicator that your soil has problems. You can correct compacted soil by using a machine to aerate the soil or by amending the soil with additional organic material. Oftentimes, just taking steps to aerate the soil will not only remove black medic but will result in a healthier lawn and flower bed. If mechanical aeration or amending the soil is not possible or does not fully succeed at getting rid of black medic, you can fall back on more traditional methods of weed control. On the organic side, you can use manual pulling for black medic control. Since the plant grows from a central location, hand weeding black medic can be very effective and remove it from large areas in a short time. Read more at Gardening Know How: Black Medic Control: Information On Getting Rid Of Black Medic ..." (I had to remove the link or yt would delete the comment.) ------------------------------ If you can remember where it first appeared, you can remove the central source & work your way out.
I know it’s been 2 years since you posted this. I’m unable to see the one reply. I’m much too stressed to enjoy my flower garden, with all the crabgrass this year. I’ve pulled so much, but my body is rebelling! There’s just so much of it. I don’t know what to use either 😣
to etradicate weeds in gravel with an HOA I’m game for suggestions! I don’t want to use round up but I HAVE to keep weeds out of the side and front yards as per HOA. If I can’t use vinegar, and it takes hours to pick them out every day literally, I’m game
All I wanted to do was spot kill weeds in my landscaping. I will not be spraying gallons of this everywhere. I eat white vinegar on certain foods so it can't be to bad to spot kill grass growing up in my mulch.
I'm trying this out on weeds that are on edge of driveway near street. I also will be trying to do this to Bermuda grass then smothering it to kill it all. I'd rather grow veggies in the future. Your video did not hinder me one bit.
Move to Louisiana, I’ll show you weeds. Weeds that don’t need light. They grow right thru 10 inches of mulch. Right thru landscape fabric. Right thru cardboard
Opinion, not fact! If you don't want to use vinegar in your garden, than don't. But others find it totally acceptable and worthy for their method of weed control. Face it, we ALL are going to die one day from something. I highly doubt that time span will be effected even a little, by using vinegar... Just My opinion, since we all have them.
I don't use vinegar anymore because it simply doesn't work. I have adjusted the amount of soap and the amount of salt in the mix, but I found I have to keep spraying to keep the weeds down. Also sheet mulching doesn't help much either. I refuse to use glyphosate.
Many, if not most gardeners can’t even afford a home. Many rent and can’t afford a yard of mulch. My (rented) yard is less than 4,000 sqft but it doesn’t make sense to spend big bucks on a rental. (My last 2 places were sold out from under me)
How can cardboard NOT bring a lot of unwanted chemicals to your soil? You gave a great description of GMO corn - then recommended shredded cardboard for mulching. How can that be?
You might want to give a warning to people about using printed materials (newspapers) that use colored inks which most of the time contain heavy metals.
Firesong…worked in the printing industry 35 years. The petroleum in the inks was replaced with soy based products. The heavy metal pigments were eliminated decades ago.
@@wyominghome4857 inks are inks. The sheen is based on the stock it is printed on. Gloss ( clay coated ) paper will produce a shiny ink. Uncoated stock produces a matt ( dull ) ink. Frequently a clear varnish is applied over the inks to make them shine. You should be safe using materials printed in the USA. Bottom line….do not risk your health taking the word of someone on UA-cam. Do your homework, better to be safe than sorry.
The reasons you have given are valid yet using vinegar in walkways that have extremely stubborn weeds is more acceptable than battling with hand tools. I use tools on most weeds but it makes since to use vinegar on others. Work smarter not harder. I agree once a garden is established and clean use of vinegar should not be needed
Ive been trying to sheet mulch thistle for years. It doesnt work. So i either lose my garden for years by covering it with plastic and wait for them to go away, or i spray them with vinegar.
My garden is one acre. I dont want to use glyphosate. Is there another organic solution? Or machine solution? I also prefer not to use plastic/film mulch but that seems to be the inevitable solution.
The past six months I tried vinegar and also tried boiling water to kill the weeds in a section of pavers. Both of these methods did kill the weed above soil level, but did nothing to the roots. After six months time, I am back to manual removal of weeds and roots. What was created by these two methods (#1 vinegar and #2 boiling water) were weeds that had mega roots aka roots on steroids. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger said, " I want to pump you up". The roots looked like muscle upon muscle body lifter bodies, no joke. It took an insane amount of time to remove one weed.
vinegar is distilled. it's not going to retain round up. at least not in much volume. you maybe don't have weeds like some people. mulches are great if you can get them. but of course they may contain round up.
This info is less about vinegar and more about using ANY herbicide at all. The reason we use the vinegar is it's way less expensive and somewhat safer than off the shelf products that have glyphosate and other chemicals.
Most people are not overly concerned about getting a GMO product on their weeds. Laying mulch all over my sidewalks to keep weeds down is definitely not an option.
When you get too old to bend down on your knee’s to pull weeds, what do you do. You use a non poisonous weed control. It will not harm the birds or other ground critters. It keeps them out of the garden area. Vinegar is the safe alternative to the other (roundup or other hazardous chemicals in use.)
Get a younger friend, or ask someone else who also loves gardening for help. Don't Humans communicate properly anymore? Oh, of course they don't, they use stupid text messages instead LOL 🙄😅
"in the end, the only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation" 👍😉😜
@@Johny40Se7en Are you the boss of all gods?
@@Johny40Se7en if you can get someone to pull weeds then good on you but for the rest of us weve just got to get on with it
@@Johny40Se7en
"when a man grows old,
and his balls grow cold,
there's many a tale he can tell to you!
when it bends in the middle
like a one string fiddle
he don't need to lie,
he'll tell it true."
as i age i may learn...
It's called a hula hoe
Better than a Monsanto product.
False
Glyphosate is only one type of weedkiller. Stop being obsessed with Monsanto.
This is all great information to think about. But for anyone out there who knows they aren’t going to pull weeds - please don’t resort back to round-up / Glyphosate. It’s still a better alternative until something better comes along 🤷♂️
Absolutely. "Perfect is the enemy of good."
Vinegar is the only way to eradicate weeds here in PAC NW. Overspray not an issue, soil acidification is a positive. GMO vinegar residual bs is bs. I’ve done it all, till, no till, permaculture, hog fuel and sheet mulch. I have learned it takes all those methods to be a successful gardener here. Glad that your method works for you.
Many weeds are deep rooted and cannot be pulled out. The vinegar, by killing the plant leaves, will deprive the weed of nutrients, and the root may subsequently die. Also, by killing the foliage, you prevent the weeds from seeding, preventing its spread. Yes, pulling is best, but not always possible, especially in large, difficult landscapes.
Canadian thistle is a prime example. Pulling them just makes the mother root stronger and sprouts more. Trying to keep the spray at a minimum but will use 20% vinegar to keep them at bay. I have a huge crop of them in my cardboard and wood chipped garden. Hopefully over the next few years I can weaken the plants enough that it just gives up.
Not a good idea to pull poison ivy either! I had no luck with vinegar and wasted alot of it yesterday. The leaves were just as perky and green as they always were. Those concentrated ones might work but using a regular store brand is probably useless. I have now taken to clipping off the leaves with garden shears or stomping them and will probably buy something stronger than vinegar to kill the roots. I have alot of poison ivy in my yard and clipping off the leaves is very time-consuming. I even found some huge leaves and vine growing up a tree and flowering! Some can become woody like a small tree itself. I found some of that too. This stuff has to go because I got it on my skin several times over the past few months while clearing other brush by hand because it was hiding underneath other weeds.
@@IAMGiftbearer use Garlon for poison ivy in the fall before the leaves turn color and let it melt away all winter. Garlon is the goods...
Vinegar and high concentrated vinegar never worked for me. Sure it killed the weeds in a day or two but the weeds would always grow back. Very frustrating.
You got more time and a better back than I do brother.
Vinegar completely evaporates leaving no residue. That’s why you can use it to clean windows. It’s always best to pull but when all else fails.
I'm not worried so much about GMO corn derived vinegar where I use it (gravel driveway and river rock beds), but I would love to avoid any product that has had any contact with RoundUp or ANY product from Monsanto.
Aah the good ol Monsanto
Best thing I ever used was a steam cleaner. Made the weeds look like cooked cabbage
Wow - what a great idea! Never heard of that before.
I have a small one I’ve never used, with a tiny nozzle, meant to clean kitchen floors, tile, etc. Will that work for me? Only had to do it once to look look like cooked cabbage? I’m so sick of pulling this crabgrass that went wild here in NE. Terrible drought!
Yeah, my mom used boiling water to kill weeds. Now she is 93 y.o. and I am about to visit her and will need to take care of those weeds. I was going to use vinegar and salt, which kills EVEry weed, but I guess the boiling water is better. @@barbarahargrove7920
Huh? I am newly widowed and the garden, which used to be my husband’s area of expertise, has fallen onto my lap. I couldn’t cope with the enormous early season growth and last week got a team of gardeners in to cut everything back before the house was overcome by all the branches. Now I have a vast pile of waste in the middle of the lawn (kept out of loyalty to my husband, who was into composting everything); and I am gradually shredding it all and putting it into compost bins.
But my neighbours are worried I am attracting vermin which they do not want in their houses (nor do I!); and I have just got back from the supermarket, armed with four bottles of distilled vinegar to water down and deliver, via a watering can, onto this vast heap to deter animals and insects from making a home in it. I have a wasps nest at the far end of my garden, and a gardener was stung twice: I consider that more than enough wildlife for this long but narrow town garden. I do not want anything in my garden that is not human unless it has a root. I am one of those people who spends five minutes outside and comes back indoors covered in bites! So I think vinegar as a deterrent, is very useful for someone like me who really is only interested in the garden as something nice to look at through a window.
I hope the vinegar helped!! I am having a similar issue on my driveway which is covered in small stones (I don’t own the property but that’s how the landlord left it). I don’t drive so the driveway has become overrun with weeds as I never use it. There’s no garden near it and just an empty lot behind. I’m going to use vinegar as a safe alternative to roundup etc because trying to pull all the weeds has become an impossible task - some of them are higher than my waist D:
Vinegar is an acid. Period. I doubt that it matters at all that it came from a GMO or non-GMO product. The only problem it might create in your garden is it might acidify your soil, maybe not enough to make any difference.
Could be good around the blueberries
Acid is in EVERYTHING. Look at what you drink… Literally ANYTHING we drink has acid in it. Period. Everything has the potential to cause cancer. Pick your poison carefully!!
So you're worried about some kind of GMO effect remaining in commercially distilled (20%+ acetic) vinegar but not the content of cardboard as feedstock for your soil. 🤣😆😂🤣
Perfect, most corrugated material is made with GMO corn starch and caustic soda (yep they mix these to make the adhesive in glue the interior fluting to the side walls) and they have done this for over 25 years that I know of probably longer.
Lol and the contaminants in cardboard especially in recycled cardboard or cardboard from China. Cardboard not rated for food contact can be treated with all kinds of stuff.
@@sallyohmygollly ikr!
and vinegar is a byproduct of many industrial processes, so it may even come from petroleum, but chemistry is funny, acetic acid is still acetic acid indipendently from the feedstock.
I spray ground weeds with vinegar and around my floral plantings. But I don't plant food plants in the ground. I do container only and I can spray around the bottom of my containers with no problem.
Thank you Dan, I was just looking at organic solutions and vinegar was everywhere. I am going to choose, as you said, the carboard, leaves, grass clippings to control the weeds. THANK YOU! you are correct! don't need to add these chemicals to my yard, plants, fruits and veggies, and especially, kill off the little animals and bugs etc. in my yard. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the post. The info about using organic vinegar is helpful. While I agree that vinegar shouldn't be the first choice in the garden, it is definitely useful in landscape weeding, and even more so for those who are disabled, including myself. I don't have a garden, but there are landscaping beds around all of the apartments here. I do occasionally go outside with a bottle of vinegar to tackle especially aggressive weeds. I don't use industrial grade vinegar, just the regular strength stuff. That actually does a very good job, without being too hard on me. Also, because I only use it directly on the weeds, the actual landscape plants aren't harmed. A food and herb garden would do better with mulch, instead.
I am glad I stumbled upon your video. I planned to spray weeds with vinegar, albeit not in my garden. I planned to spray weeds growing up on city owned land across the street from my house that is over grown with "trash" trees and all sorts of weeds. I never thought about it killing ladybugs, butterflies, etc. I am a senior now and cannot do as much physical work as I once did. I just do not have any answers of the best way to take care of things anymore....
The problem I had with using vinegar in spray bottles is that it would destroy the spray mechanism even after giving the bottle a good wash.
Vinegar destroys rubber gaskets too
I did have it mess up one of my bottles
I got an industrial spray bottle that is designed to be bleach-safe. I use it for undiluted 5% vinegar. I've had it for years now and it still works great.
For bleach, I wouldn't leave the bleach in the bottle. Better to mix just enough, then neutralize and clean the bottle when done.
I use a brush to paint the stem and leaves of the thistles in my garden with white vinegar. It works great. Just as with any other herbicide, I would not spray it over the garden.
For this brush on method does it work in shade or does it need sun to Activate. Are you using 20% horticultural or 30% industria strength vinegar? Or normal store stuff of 10%. I think. ...?..
If all the farms operated on sweat equity, we would all be dirt poor. Ok if it is your hobby but impossible to make a living from.
Vinegar is NOT an alcohol - it's a fruit juice that's gone 'bad' and turned into a mild acid.
Vinegar is created from ethanol (alcohol) by bacteria that convert it to acetic acid. Usually only trace amounts of alcohol remaining. But it originates from alcohol not fruit juice.
@@Solitude11-11 what about apple cider vinegar ?
@@nightstringers What about it? Apples or grapes, it’s still alcohol. And, cider…give away clue 😄
It ferments to alcohol first as an intermediate before becoming an acetic acid
As a replacement for toxic chemicals this is are sensible alternative. It is “sort of“ a derivative of a distilling process but not quite the same.
I had weeds and grass growing in between the pavement outside my door where I worked and used to use a weed waker ( whipper snipper here in Australia ) constantly to cut them back then one day some old dude told me to pour boiling water on them and that will kill them at the root. I tried it and came back after a couple of days the plants were dead and I just pulled them out easily!
It's weed WHACKER not waker ya wanker. And you can probably tell by my accent that I'm astrayan too and hate people who can't spell.
@@bunyip250 I'll remember to put the haitch in next time to save you from the bad karma coming at you from all the hateful thoughts you are enacting.
So, that kills at the root? I’ve heard that, too! I’m going to try it.
If it's on a lawn, regularly pulling any weed or nettle and mowing seems to be get most things under control. On tarmac drives or concrete areas with no plastic sheeting beneath, where it's tricky or impossible to scrape up all of the leaves and stem without damaging the surface, direct heat is one of the best ways.
I appreciate your ideas. I've got a quandary for you to tackle, if you'd like to help. So I'm beginning to grow Lavender in Northern Colorado. I have about 30 field production acres filled to the brim with weeds. I will not use chemicals. Yet it would take a lifetime to pull them all by hand. I have been spraying weeds with organic 30% vinegar, salt & soap. I'm all for allowing some natural growth in the field between my Lavender rows. But Russian thistles 6ft tall and other weedie monsters will consume my Lavendula's nutrients. I pull & I spray all day long. So my question to you, is how do I accomplish deweeding on such a large scale any other way? This is the question that must be answered for toxic conglomerates like Monsanto to stop what they're doing and switch over to something healthier for our world too. It's a daunting task.
Great channel. Thanks for doing what you're doing. It's important work.,:)
One piece of critical information. DONOT put salt anywhere you want things to grow. It is a permannet fail. Other weed control measures, success or failure, you can always try something else. There is a reasonfor the old reference of salting the fields of the enemy exists. I do like the salt vinegar mix in the crack between asphalt and concrete in my sidewalk, but that is about far enough.
Try black plastic. Roll it out between the rows and in a week of sun the weeds and there seeds will be gone.
@@1Daftboywhat's permanent about salt? It's probably one of the most water soluble things I can think of(there for easily leechable).Also you use the word salt like it's ONE thing, it's not. Example, my tomatoes love Epson Salt (magnesium sulfate) right on their root system. Plus arnt all synthetic Hydro nutrients just elements in their "salt" form for maximum solubility?
True, I was sloppy in my use of the term "permanent" since without a time frame it's not meaningful. Salt (NaCl) takes time to leach out of soil, time is dependent on soil stucture (sandy or clay) and how much salt was added. The quickest recovery according to my casual search was a year. A more accurate statement would be to identify salt as less chemically reactive than vinegar (acetic acid). Vinegar will be effectively gone from the soil the day after application. It will have reacted with other compounds in the soil and created some acetate salts. Salt on the other hand is still NaCl the following day. The only practical way to get ride of it is to physically remove it from the soil, i.e. leaching it out.
I think of vinegar as a foliar herbicide as opposed to salt which kills from the soil since it disrupts the plants ability to absorb water and actually dries the plant out.
So, I prefer to use vinegar to kill the weeds when I don't want to kill nearby plants. As an aside on the word "salt" it is true than an inorganic ionically bonded compound is effectively a " salt". I believe that the word salt in normal discussions is generally accepted to mean sodium chloride.
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I suppose it depends on your criteria. For me, plants in the garden are almost all weeds... I'm not at all a gardening guy. Vinegar, so far, is what I've used to kill off stuff encroaching on the deck pretty badly, some growing under it. I didn't want to have to dismantle the deck and go digging. I also had some moss buildup on the asphalt in the front yard, some of it quite stubborn even for a power washer. Strong vinegar with a dash of detergent so it breaks surface tension and really penetrates into the moss and two days later it was brown and dead and was very easy to power wash away the remnants. Either way, if it's between Roundup (or similar) or vinegar in a garden growing food crops, lord knows I'd rather use vinegar. It's the same vinegar I literally consume in foods to make it acidic... if I can drink it directly, I can sure see tossing some on plant if need be. For people who are really serious about the whole organic thing and using nothing at all, sure, more power to you. But as herbicides go, vinegar is probably one of the most nature friendly options you can find. One downside might be that used too much it can turn the soil acidic, which isn't good if you want something to grow on it, but you can probably counter that with a solution of bicarbonate to neutralize or something.
Thanks a lot! I like the idea of mulching the Ivy away! That really resonates with me. Thank you for another option.
spraying vinegar kills systemically...therefore kills roots also.
Is vinegar also a soil sterilant? I use vinegar on my gravel driveway, works great. Buy organic vinegar to consume.
I use the 30% vinegar from the hardware store mixed with salt and dish soap.
I'd want to see scientific evidence that the acetic acid from GMO corn is different in any way from any other source before I panicked.
Thank you.
vinegar is my favorite herbicide. That is how I clean my brick patio and driveway cracks. I also cut the vinegar for 1 tablespoon vinegar to 1 gallon of water for acid loving plants
we use 20% kitchen vinegar ( that we use to make pickles for ourselves also ) put it in a window cleaner sprayer bottle, you could spray it to the root of the plant easy, it will be dead next day with the root itself and the sprayer allows small application doses so I don't contaminate large area of soil, because when I was weeding around the tomatos I killed few tomato plants with vinegar because it was too much and too close to the tomato plants...
Living in the UK my vinegar is produced from non GM barley.
America, is full of goo, amongst other thing bleach and chicken!!!
I'm going to try the vinegar in my pasture, in the rock patch there, because you can do all the manual removal but thistle is going to get into place no gardening tool is skinny enough to get to.
I use apple cider vinegar on concrete and away from plants in a spray bottle. Lightly spray.
You're right but most people aren't using vinegar in gardens like that. I use it in rock beds, my driveway...etc and not areas where you would be doing serious food gardening.
I use the vinegar, salt, Dawn mixture on my rock landscape and in the back yard because of my dogs... Works very well...
I have an acre of desert weeds. Spraying them with vinegar as soon as they pop up is our safest option. It would take me weeks (I am at work most of the day) to pull them. And if I wait that long they seed and dry quickly so the wind blows the seeds all over. It becomes a nightmare. Tumble weed is the worst as I’m highly allergic. They will grow on top of each other if there is no room. If I were retired and didn’t live in the desert I might consider leaving my vinegar. But until then…
Worked wonders on my onions, I only needed a jar.
Ironically the ad that played attached to this video is Roundup
Satanists love this kind of humor...
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@@chezg806 Use your brain, and your *** will follow! (Meaning: Certainly not. YT: Check yourself.)
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@@chezg806 1) I do not need any meds 2) I am not sweetheart 3) take your neurones and use them. I am sure they will like it. Go and inform yourself. It makes sexy. And intelligent. You will see.
I was thinking about using vinegar and salt in between the patio slabs. Is that bad?? I thought it was a perfect idea and its pet friendly.
WOW. I didn't find regular grade to do anything on my weeds, so I purchased the 30%, but it doesn't have an organic label. On a side note, I find mixing V + dish soap and a brush does a very good job of eliminating algae form my patio. Baking soda can also be added
I use Green Gobbler 20% vinegar weed killer - it's certified for organic use. Add a little Dawn and it's awesome.
What is the best organic product to use for black spot? Especially on my rose bushes. Thank you!! GOD bless.
I have a neighbor that grows tall bushes along the fence between our properties and they branch over a good 4-5 feet of my lawn. I hope that by spraying that over hang with vinegar it will prevent further growth.
3:46 On another gardening channel they said that when they use mulch, that encourages a tick infestation. Have you had any problems with those and if so, what's the remedy?
I an trying beneficial nematodes. Says they kill ticks in the soil
As a replacement for toxic chemicals this is are sensible alternative. It is “sort of“ a derivative of a distilling process but quite the same. Not everyone is going to mulch or pull weeds.
I guess I better quit vinegar and olive oil on my salad. Never knew
your weeds are a gardens salad
How do you get rid of poison Ivy?
30% vinegar!
4:00 yes that’s true, but the bindweed doesn’t care. It grows through 20 inches of woodchips and compost. It’s a nightmare!
What I’m trying now is covering the affected area (400 m2) with thick black plastic to starve them of light. Then remove it after 6-8 weeks and apply a light vinegar solution. Hopefully that will kill it off.
Any other tips you have are highly appreciated!
I try to use heavy mulches too but poison ivy is getting prolific around the garden and deck and there’s no way to mulch these areas. Need to avoid it spreading into the garden and growing up,the sides of the deck. Don’t have the time or energy to expend in much digging and old man always wants to use a buzz machine kill,,,which can splatter poison ivy oils….and doesn’t kill,it anyway. It’s too hardy. I’ve got flower beds around the deck and also don’t have time and energy any more to dig up everything and start over…nor money to hire it done. I’d rather mix salt and organic vinegar and pour on the ivy in its particular spots. It’s taking over….no matter what….
If vinegar works, go for it. Worst that migh happen with vinegar is you’ll accidentally splash another plant or slightly acidify your soil. Other than that it’s fine.
I like to put it on my greens AFTER I pull them then I eat them .your insane it's vinegar
Thanks for the information. I would never use vinegar for weed control, mich less in a garden where there are edibles for me or other critters! -But I have used a mixture of vinegar, salt and Dawn on poison ivy with success, o I can't dismiss it out of hand.
I love Garlon for tough to control weeds, mix a dash of biodiesel and be done.
As he eats a gobi berry that is part of the nightshade family.
I was reading all the comments here and thought how the Chemtrails are dumping all the crap on everything. Plants , animals and us humans. And we are worried about GMO vinegar ? Should be the least of our concerns 😳
Oooooor you can make it yourself. Start in winter and you'll have more then you need by spring. Kombucha is a great way to make vinegar. I can't drink the stuff BUUUUT I use out for lots of different things.
hula ho and hory hory ? hahahaha
im glad i watched this. attempting to get rid of a japanese knotweed and i see people injecting them with herbicide so i looked up diy herbicide and it a concoction of vinegar, dish soap, and salt,... which.... in general i dont wanna use. the knotweed is in a place where theres been nothing else growing but theres still little critters to think about
I have a black clover problem in my flower beds as its taking over. I can pull the weeds and roots (especially after it rains) for days and it still comes back. I can't use commercial weed killer as it kills my myrtle ground cover. I do not use any pesticides or herbicides in my vegetable garden. The black clover has now started to germinate in my veggy garden, which I do pull out. I do not know what else to do.
Have you tried this ... if this is what you have.
"How to Get Rid of Black Medic
Before you start spraying chemicals or getting on your hands and knees to remove black medic, you should first understand the conditions that black medic weed likes to grow in.
Black medic grows in compacted soil. This is why you most commonly find it growing by the roadside or next to sidewalks, where soil has been compacted by wheel and foot traffic.
If you find it in the middle of your lawn or flower bed, you may be able to get rid of black medic for good simply by correcting your over compacted soil.
In other words, black medic weed is an indicator that your soil has problems. You can correct compacted soil by using a machine to aerate the soil or by amending the soil with additional organic material.
Oftentimes, just taking steps to aerate the soil will not only remove black medic but will result in a healthier lawn and flower bed.
If mechanical aeration or amending the soil is not possible or does not fully succeed at getting rid of black medic, you can fall back on more traditional methods of weed control. On the organic side, you can use manual pulling for black medic control.
Since the plant grows from a central location, hand weeding black medic can be very effective and remove it from large areas in a short time.
Read more at Gardening Know How: Black Medic Control: Information On Getting Rid Of Black Medic ..." (I had to remove the link or yt would delete the comment.)
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If you can remember where it first appeared, you can remove the central source & work your way out.
I know it’s been 2 years since you posted this. I’m unable to see the one reply. I’m much too stressed to enjoy my flower garden, with all the crabgrass this year. I’ve pulled so much, but my body is rebelling! There’s just so much of it. I don’t know what to use either 😣
Nonsense. The small amt of vinegar used does No Harm.
If you are alergic to the weeds you want to get rid of you can not manually remove it without breaking out.
to etradicate weeds in gravel with an HOA I’m game for suggestions! I don’t want to use round up but I HAVE to keep weeds out of the side and front yards as per HOA. If I can’t use vinegar, and it takes hours to pick them out every day literally, I’m game
All I wanted to do was spot kill weeds in my landscaping. I will not be spraying gallons of this everywhere. I eat white vinegar on certain foods so it can't be to bad to spot kill grass growing up in my mulch.
When you have 10 acres, the weeds would laugh hysterically at you for even thinking about trying to pull all of them🙄
what’s the best way to get rid of morning glory in the garden?
Well don't use it on your weeds in your garden, only on side walks driveways good on concrete services. Stay away from gardens and grassy areas.
I'm trying this out on weeds that are on edge of driveway near street. I also will be trying to do this to Bermuda grass then smothering it to kill it all. I'd rather grow veggies in the future. Your video did not hinder me one bit.
Great video man but I have a question what about getting rid of poison ivy is it great for that
Move to Louisiana, I’ll show you weeds. Weeds that don’t need light. They grow right thru 10 inches of mulch. Right thru landscape fabric. Right thru cardboard
vinegar works very well
Opinion, not fact! If you don't want to use vinegar in your garden, than don't. But others find it totally acceptable and worthy for their method of weed control. Face it, we ALL are going to die one day from something. I highly doubt that time span will be effected even a little, by using vinegar... Just My opinion, since we all have them.
I don't use vinegar anymore because it simply doesn't work. I have adjusted the amount of soap and the amount of salt in the mix, but I found I have to keep spraying to keep the weeds down. Also sheet mulching doesn't help much either. I refuse to use glyphosate.
Many, if not most gardeners can’t even afford a home. Many rent and can’t afford a yard of mulch. My (rented) yard is less than 4,000 sqft but it doesn’t make sense to spend big bucks on a rental. (My last 2 places were sold out from under me)
How can cardboard NOT bring a lot of unwanted chemicals to your soil? You gave a great description of GMO corn - then recommended shredded cardboard for mulching. How can that be?
I make my rows wider and use the push mower to cut the paths. It holds moisture and helps with soil from blowing away too
What if you had sweet potato vines that grow over your fence and up your power line from your neighbors? Would you then use vinegar?
Root them and harvest sweet potato in the fall?
I don't think vinegar hurts the soil of course you don't spray the plants you want keep. From experience I've had good luck! 😅
You might want to give a warning to people about using printed materials (newspapers) that use colored inks which most of the time contain heavy metals.
Firesong…worked in the printing industry 35 years. The petroleum in the inks was replaced with soy based products. The heavy metal pigments were eliminated decades ago.
@@wyominghome4857 inks are inks. The sheen is based on the stock it is printed on. Gloss ( clay coated ) paper will produce a shiny ink. Uncoated stock produces a matt ( dull ) ink. Frequently a clear varnish is applied over the inks to make them shine. You should be safe using materials printed in the USA. Bottom line….do not risk your health taking the word of someone on UA-cam. Do your homework, better to be safe than sorry.
Much Appreciation. Happy Gardening
2× ruins round up you say. love it.I'm good with that.I'm only useing g.m.o. corn vinegar from now on.
The reasons you have given are valid yet using vinegar in walkways that have extremely stubborn weeds is more acceptable than battling with hand tools. I use tools on most weeds but it makes since to use vinegar on others. Work smarter not harder. I agree once a garden is established and clean use of vinegar should not be needed
I’m not lazy but when you use tools to get rid of weeds and they keep coming back, vinegar is a great weapon
I’ve been wanting to hire the local goat gardeners (real, not a joke) to come in and eat up all my weeds but they were booked for the whole summer.
Ive been trying to sheet mulch thistle for years. It doesnt work. So i either lose my garden for years by covering it with plastic and wait for them to go away, or i spray them with vinegar.
My garden is one acre. I dont want to use glyphosate. Is there another organic solution? Or machine solution? I also prefer not to use plastic/film mulch but that seems to be the inevitable solution.
What if it's not for garden areas? We use it as weed control on driveway, sidewalk, etc.
Oh my gosh! Thank you for sharing this info! 💚Respect.
The past six months I tried vinegar and also tried boiling water to kill the weeds in a section of pavers. Both of these methods did kill the weed above soil level, but did nothing to the roots.
After six months time, I am back to manual removal of weeds and roots. What was created by these two methods (#1 vinegar and #2 boiling water) were weeds that had mega roots aka roots on steroids. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger said,
" I want to pump you up". The roots looked like muscle upon muscle body lifter bodies, no joke. It took an insane amount of time to remove one weed.
It seems to work really well on seedling weeds, but a disaster on big ones like you said.
I'd bet Elon Musk pulls weeds in his yard!!😂😂😂
Hmmm 85 year old disabled grandma out in the 100 deg heat pulling weeds. What could possibly go wrong?
vinegar is distilled. it's not going to retain round up. at least not in much volume. you maybe don't have weeds like some people. mulches are great if you can get them. but of course they may contain round up.
Nice share man, much respect!
This info is less about vinegar and more about using ANY herbicide at all. The reason we use the vinegar is it's way less expensive and somewhat safer than off the shelf products that have glyphosate and other chemicals.
Just use good ol "non gmo organic fire"
Should be good on driveways and sidewalks
Most people are not overly concerned about getting a GMO product on their weeds. Laying mulch all over my sidewalks to keep weeds down is definitely not an option.
Do you have any suggestions for poison ivy removal?
What kind of barriers did you say the ones you ate? Love your videos.
Says the man who has never dealt with English Ivy in the SE US. You will never mulch out that.
I won't be using vinegar for weed control but will have you come over to the house to pull weeds! Deal?!!
Enjoy your tips
What is sheet mulching? How do you do this? How thick would it have to be to be effective? Thank you 😊
Sheet mulching…. Or sheep mulching? Sorry I listened a few times and I can’t quite make it out. I’ll Google it, ☺️. tY
Sheet.