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!!
I tried the beer, it worked a little but it tips over and they enjoy the drink anyway, then to clean it up made me sick. I save my egg shells, break them a bit and toss them in the garden. The slugs get cut with the shells so they stay away. Gives lots of calcium to the soil also.
What about IVY? I am gonna try !
Thanks for the tip!!
Stick with real weed spray for Ivy… it’s too hardy of a plant for any homemade that I have tried!
Thanks for the tip!
I would only use this in driveways and such. Vinegar will ruin soil so that nothing will grow there. Boiling water will work with out ruining the soil.
Thanks! I was going to use all over!
what about killing a redbud tree stump that keeps sending up sprouts from the roots?
Does the vinegar combo kill grass too???
I have over 300 large patio blocks making up a patio and a sidewalk and even with using heavy duty plastic under neath the patio blocks, every weed possible grows up between the patio blocks. I used pure vinegar on an area around my flower pots, and then I used pure bleach on another area, and both killed the grass and weeds… but the vinegar worked faster. A gallon of vinegar costs more than a generic brand gallon of bleach, so you might want to try using bleach, pure strength. The bleach also killed the mold growing on some of the patio blocks that were in the shade.
My neighbors grew the best moss the following year. It was 4″ thick! So if you do this in the Pacific Northwest, be sure to put lime on your grass in the fall to neutralize the acid. Moss loves an acid environment.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A FRUGAL TIP FOR GETTING RID OF FIRE ANT MOUNDS??
so can you spray this on your weed filled grass? or will it kill the grass too?
Hi Ana ~ this will also kill the grass, so only spray on areas with weeds… away from grass or plants you want to keep alive. 😉
~ Heidi