All Natural Weed Killer

Hydrogen Peroxide is a great non toxic weed killer. It stops the photosynthesis which kills a host of hard to kill plants.

I use 1 10% gallon vinegar, 2tblsp. of orange oil, and 2 tbslsp of dishwashing soap. Mix it up and spray it on. In 3-4 hrs the vegetation that comes in contact with it will turn brown and die. It works very well. Sometimes after it dies and dries out I will go over it with a propane torch.

As long as you are not allergic to it like I am. Last time I used it (about 5 years ago) I ended up in the hospital with hives and my tongue swelling up. I won't use the "safe" weed killer anymore.

vinegar will not kill the root, so you will be having to do the same thing over and over again. that is why I use 2-4-D that will kill em.

I've used vinegar and lemon juice on the thistles and it works great. Mix a gallon of cheap vinegar with one of those squeezy lemons and spray it into the heart of the plant. It will take a day or so to work. Just be sure to wash your sprayer out afterwards as it will gum up your trigger. The lemon juice raises the acidity of the vinegar.

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Part of why vinegar and salt work is because it makes the soil incompatible for plant growth. Too acidic and to saline. Great for driveways and sidewalks, bad for pasture and yards.

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My husband orders lab grade vinegar (30% as compared to regular vinegar at 5%) and it works great on weeds. He sprayed Roundup on some and used the vinegar on the others and the vinegar beat the Roundup hands down. We also learned a long time ago that mosquito spray (Deep Woods) will also kill weeds. We found this out because of "drift" when we sprayed ourselves outside of the tent.

till it
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Oh and watering it so it will grow and till again. This gets all the seeds to.

dropped into a windrow of hay while cutting 2 years ago, there was poison parsnip on/in the hay, did not see where but my legs blew up into boils the next hour. no permanent scaring that i could tell(legs as old as mine are already scarred !) is not supposed to affect livestock and have seen the goats chow down on parsnip more than once. we have a portable steam genny that i keep thinking would work well for weeding but never seem to have the time to fix.

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this stuff laps up roundup like soda pop! have seen varying concentrations used to try and control it, but not much works. cutting the plant to the ground and keeping it there does work but slow process. more and more roundup ready weeds around us here now.\

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I can try the solution, but will pass on the torch. So to speak.

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I'll look into the lab grade vinegar, but using bug repellent is out. This is a 10 acre field, that's a lot of cans! lol

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The main amount of plants is at my fenceline (wood posts) so I can't till it. Short of pulling up 10 acres of posts to till. I need something that I can get a lot of that is not too expensive and that will be safe around the horses.

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From what I understand, it's not the actual sap that makes us blister, it's the reaction your skin has to the sap being exposed to the sun right after. Apparently the sap makes our skin highly reactive to the sunlight for a few days after---so really, what we get is a grade A sunblister. So if you can get through a few days without that area of your skin seeing sunlight, it will not blister at all.

I imagine this is why animals can eat it and why it doesn't normally bother them (their fur protects them) BUT having said that, I know someone who had their light-coloured appy get into some last year and it horribly blistered its face, particularly around the eyes.

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Salt will also leach into the water table. If everyone used "just a little" salt it'd add up to a lot. A lot of people are concerned with the crud, chemicals and hard water today - why do something that will make it worse?

Burn, then over seed with something that'll choke out your weeds and keep it cut. Burn again in the fall to get any seeds if you need to.

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An Amish friend uses this mixture:

a gallon of bleach
2 c. salt
14 oz Dawn dish soap

Mix thoroughly. Wait 2 weeks and repeat. Wait 2 weeks and repeat. Wait 2 weeks and repeat. Wait 2 weeks and repeat.

And it saves them the bother of using a weed whacker.

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Howard Garret says not to use higher than 10% vinegar because it can be explosive under certain circumstances. The 10% works great.

I don't get why anyone would suggest Roundup when the OP specifically asked for NON-chemical weed killers. Y'all own Monsanto stock or something?

luvrulz, that is also an interesting combo, provided it is safe?

I can't burn anything, again this is at the fenceline, which consists of wooden fences and obviousy I can't just pull up 10 acres of fence several times!

I was wondering that if I use the vinegar formula, would not doing this over several years stop the parsnip? I mean, the plant would not have a chance to go to seed. BUT having said that, there are acres all over of the stuff, but at least maybe I can make a dent in our field/yard.

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Plus I have mentioned that I CANNOT use Roundup here!!!!! It's a controlled substance!!!!! hehehe

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