You’re gonna love this frugal gardening tip for making your own natural Homemade Weed Spray with White Vinegar.
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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!!
Thanks — will have to try this on my patio. The weeds are always sprouting through!
What about killing weeds in my lawn? We have a healthy patch of dandelions–taking orders for Mother’s Day! LOL. With two little girls and a dog, I am concerned about treating with harmful chemicals. Wouldn’t the vinegar kill the grass, too?
Yes, vinegar will kill the grass. Just spray the vinegar in a straight s*ream (not spray mode) into the center of the dandelion. You have to do it on a sunny day too. It is the combination sun and vinegar that kills the dandelions. I have small children too and the vinegar works great.
Earwig Trap: put rolled newspaper in your garden, earwigs love tight, dark spaces, then pick up the newspaper and toss it in a deep bucket of water to drown the earwigs.
If you’re a gardener and you plant crops like corn, green beans, squash..etc..will this vinegar weed spray be safe for the crops?
If you have a small garden this will work. Pour regular black pepper around the plant, not too close , and wa-la.
Also, for roses, I save banana peelings-outside. When they are stiff I put them in my blender (works better that food processor) and grind them until they look like pepper. Spread them around the roses and cover lightly with soil. Roses LOVE banana peelings.
Can also put banana peels without drying and grinding them, around base of your roses, mixed in or covered with dirt or compost and let them rot and decompose and they help the roses just as well.
I did chop the peels into pieces making them easier to mix in the dirt.
I have killed weeds with Coca Cola, add a few drops of dishwashin liquid to the cola so it will adhere the pland and spray it liberally
u just reminded me of a little magic trick i used to show the kids, pour a paperplate with whole milk, add two drops of food coloring to the middle, each a different color, then rightaway, add a drop of dishwashing liquid to the middle also, are you waiting? im not going to spoil it for u just know its awesome to watch and wont hurt anyone
Thanks. I’ve never done that. Sounds like fun for the grandkids.
I told my daughter about the milk, even evaporated milk, or 2% milk works, just needs some milk-fat in it…with the food coloring and Dawn dish soap, or any type dish soap, and she did it at home for my grand-daughter. It happened my Grand-daughter used it in a science project that week, back when she was in 4th grade!
She had a good results, and won 1st place!
If you have slugs around your hostis plants you put sand around them and they wont bother them
I tried the vinegar on several different kind of weeds in my yard, spraying liberally. I waited several days. It did not kill any of them. I wasted the vinegar. Then got out some old Round Up and sprayed the same weeds, and they were goners the next day.
Thank you…I was going to look up something for whatever is eating my hostas…I will try this.
I’ve used stronger vinegar in these instances – the 10-15% that you buy at the garden store, not the grocery. It isn’t inexpensive, but we didn’t use is to save money. We lived on a lake and the chemical run off into the lake wasn’t something that we wanted to contribute to.
You can intensify cheaper white vinegar through evaporation if you’d desire to plan for it. Cover a tray with screening when filled with vinegar and let the liquid evaporate which concentrates the strength, but be careful about marking the container clearly if you store it.
Tried it and it works great. Thanks for the tip:
Thank you, i’m going to try it on poison ivy!
Me too.