You’re gonna love this frugal gardening tip for making your own natural Homemade Weed Spray with White Vinegar.
Then… protect your home garden even more with these genius DIY Slug Trap Tricks!
Homemade Weed Spray with White Vinegar
Got weeds? Grab some vinegar!
That’s right… thanks to this DIY Homemade Weed Spray with White Vinegar Spray, you can get your yard back under control!
Weed remover can be so, so expensive… and full of such icky ingredients, until now!
The combination of white vinegar + lemon juice will send your weeds off crying, and that’s exactly what we want!
Not only is this Homemade Weed Remover with White Vinegar a great natural alternative to the weed removers at stores, it wills save you SO much money!
Here’s what you’ll do…
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If you’ve been wanting a way to remove those pesky weeds without paying big bucks for harsh chemicals… here’s a great frugal alternative!
It’s all natural, and works like a charm!
Homemade Weed Spray Ingredients
You’ll just need a few simple things to make your own weed spray with vinegar!
Check your cupboards, or fridge, or add the following to your next grocery list to make sure you’ve got everything you need…
1. 3 cups Distilled White Vinegar.
Most vinegars are 5% acidity, but the higher the percentage the acidity, the better the weeds will die. Heinz Cleaning Vinegar is 6% acidity, many Pickling Vinegars are 7%+ acidity, and you can find 20% acidity Vinegar at Home Depot.
2. 1/3 cup Lemon Juice.
3. 1 tsp. Dawn Dish Soap. (This will help the mixture ‘stick’ to the weeds.)
See… I told you this was going to be EASY!
How to Make Homemade Weed Spray
You won’t believe how easy it is to make your own homemade vinegar weed remover!
Here’s what you’ll do…
1. In large bowl, mix together Vinegar, Lemon Juice, and Dawn Dish Soap until well combined.
2. Transfer to large spray bottles using a funnel.
3. Spray generously on all parts of the weed (leaves and root area) earlier in the day when the weeds are in full sun. (The hotter the day, the better your results will be!)
4. The combination of the acid from the vinegar, citrus from the lemon, heat, and sunshine will make those stinky weeds shrivel up!
5. Be careful to spray only on the weeds you want to remove, and keep away from your grass and plants that you want to live! 😉
6. Vinegar can be hard on soil, so this is best suited for driveways, courtyards, and patios where you don’t intend on growing plants in the future.
Weed Spray Examples
For example, this is out it works.
Here is a weed near my driveway…
Here is the weed near my driveway 1 minute after spraying with vinegar… (buh-bye, weed.)
The weeds were total goners within one week, just like that!
Wow ~ what a simple and thrifty Homemade Weed Remover!
And, the best part is… even my boys can spray weeds now. (which, at least for now, are excited about this new ‘job’) 😉
Vinegar as a Weed Remover Reviews
What Your Frugal Friends Are Saying About This Weed Remover Tricks…
Rosanna said: “I just discovered VINEGAR as an “organic” weed-remover! I’ve had monkey grass growing in ugly patches around my magnolia tree. If you have monkey grass, you know it’s impossible to get rid of. On a hunch, I took some vinegar and didn’t even spray it. I just sort of poured it on while jiggling the bottle around. One week later, no more MONKEY GRASS! The Vinegar is safe for the tree, because the tree roots are too deep to be bothered by it, and the vinegar is not strong enough to harm the tree. It works much faster on common weeds.”
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So have you ever tried Homemade Weed Remover with White Vinegar?
Or do you have a thrifty DIY Weed Spray trick?
Leave a comment & share!!
Be careful. Vinegar will kill any plant. So use it sparingly around other desirable plants and where soil fertility is important (especially if you add salt to the mix).
One of my favorites; cleaning the bathroom Shower/tub:
1/3 Your favorite laundry soap
1/3 Water
1/3 Vinegar
in spray bottle
I use this every few days in the shower before I get out, does a great job on cleaning and keeping the hard water gone!
I have been trying everything on my bat/shower and can’t get the hard water stains out. I am going to try this! Thanks!
Have been gardening for over 20 years and have never heard of this! Most anxious to try white vinegar out! Thanks for sharing
I know salt works on slugs, but make sure you don’t put too much, I used to live where we had TONS of snails and I just sprinkled salt on them and they kinda foam up and die and it’s cheap too. I’m excited to try this out on my weeds, thanks so much for the tips!
Yup…the slugs will take their last drink in the beer. It totally works.
beer will kill slugs and snails.
Just put a shallow dish near the plants, fill it with beer and they go in an drown themselves. It works!
Salt works too but is yuckier
I remember my Grandmother sprinkling salt on slugs…I was little so I’m not sure if it worked.
Yes, salt still works on slugs.
I am going to go try this right now! Got any home grown tips for killing slugs and earwigs? The slugs out here in WA are flippen huge..and they’re everywhere! And they are literally destroying my flower bed… any home grown tips for getting rid of them?
I have heard, but don’t have a problem with slugs, that a water and salt mixture will kill them…but you would have to spray each one individually I would think. Not sure if that is helpful or not…but the salt causes them to dry up.
You can put dry salt directly on them. I used to get them at a house I lived at several years ago. I would go out with a handful of table salt and sprinkle it right on them (ok, more like making a frenzied toss…I dislike slugs! ew!) and they would shrivel up before my eyes. Gross, but effective!
Just place jar lids around the border and/or inside the bed(several). Add beer straight. There will be a surprise for you in the morning!
Your fairy God-mother
To get rid of slugs all you need is salt! Just sprinkle a little on their backs and that’s it. You can even sprinkle some where they lay or common areas they are seen too.
You can also place crushed egg shells around the beds. When they try to slither in they get cut and die or they just stay away altogether. Or, I just thought of this… Try crushed egg shells mixed with salt! Hehehe that seems really devious.
The sprinkling salt alone trick works well too, but that requires you to stand guard 24/7. Too high maintenance for me. 🙂
Put out a flower pot dish with high sides and
fill with beer. Put it where you see the most
slugs and wait. Slugs love the smell of beer
and will fall in and drowned…maybe they get
woozy on the smell, fall in and drowned,
don’t know. A slug will almost literly melt
if sprinkled with salt.
Plant some plants in your garden or flower bed that do not attract slugs. There are lots of flowers and bulbs that do not attract slugs and bugs/
I throw my used coffee grounds in the flowerbed. I cant see them, it helps the plants, and the best part…..slugs can’t stand the grainy feeling! Win Win!
For destroying slugs, pour some beer in a jar lid and leave it overnight where you see evidence of the slugs.The slugs will consume the beer and it stops them in their tracks. It works for me.
I have tried the salt on slugs but it killed my plants
I hear that soapy water will kill earwigs and pennys are good to keep away slugs. Crushed egg shells in the garden will also help with slugs. I have not done it myself, but heard from others that they work. Good luck
If you have not tried putting beer out, try it. Slugs are bad in SC. Take a can of the cheapest beer you can find and pour it into several old shallow pie pan. The slugs are attracted to the beer like it is a magnet. They crawl into the pan and die. Let me know how you you do with it!
I lived in WA from 1977-1983….Pour salt directly on the slugs, they almost instantly dry up and die…..
My father used to put out metal pie plates with beer in them — slugs dry out in the alcohol. He never had a drink in his life and bought beer for the first time for slugs.
I use a mixture of ammonia, Murphy’s oil soap and water to kill slugs. Kills them in seconds and does no harm to my grass or plants. I just put about a cup of ammonia, couple tablespoons of the soap in a spray bottle and fill the rest of the way to the top with water. Go out in the morning when the slugs are heaviest and spray away. Couple of sprays, slug is a goner. After I started doing this my slug population is not so huge. Love it!!
I’ve always heard to use beer, put in a dish & cover loosely with a clay pot, they smell the yeast & want it but drown instead. They like cool damp places!
I know this is a very late post but if you still need help with the slugs…..
Diamatious earth is the very best thing to use for slugs…you sprinkle it under your plants and the slugs got through it and they are gonners. Diamatious earth is simply ground up shells so it is very safe to use.
save your eggshells. rinse them, then crush them and sprinkle around the plant base. good for the soil, and its slices those little buggers right up!
Hi Melissa, I live in western PA, I have had a problem with slugs, UGH!…and I found that using any one of these works well to chase them away from your plants: table salt, ashes from any wood, sand. They cannot cross any of these, it burns their tummy! Keeps them away, re-apply as needed, the sand will stay longer, won’t dissolve with watering.
Make a cornmeal trap. Put a tablespoon or two of cornmeal in a jar and lay it on its side wherever there is slug activity. The slugs will be attracted to the scent, but the texture of the meal is too harsh and will kill them. Leave the jar out overnight or for several hours; when you spot the slugs in the jar, you can dispose of them permanently to remove them from your garden.
If you use the suggested beer tip be sure to use deep slippery sided containers. One spring evening, my friend Marisa set out çontainers of beer to attract the slugs. It worked a charm! When she came out in the morning on her way to work there were dozens of slugs in the pots. Grossed out, Marisa decided to deal with the slugs when she got home later in the day. But when she returned from work the pots were dry. No beer and the slugs were all gone. Apparently they’d had their beer fest, crawled out of the containers that were to shallow, and gone home to sleep of h*ngovers.
Killing slugs is easy – sprinkle a little salt on them. They will shrivel in front of your eyes! My grandma and I used to do it in her garden for a “fun time!” . . . Snails – all you have to do is break their shell. . .
I saw a pin the other day about putting ground up eggshells around your plants to keep the slugs away, because they don’t like to climb over the rough eggshell. I put it out, and the birds came and ate the eggshells! Too funny!
Hi Jessica ~ I’ve honestly never tried this on mushrooms… let us know how it goes!
~ Heidi
Heidi – love your helpful tips. Will the vinegar work on crabgrass? Are there any DIY cures for crabgrass? Thanks!
I wonder if this will work on mushrooms….I’m going to try it out and report back 🙂