Credit: Jim Bauer
It’s been said that weeds are just plants whose virtues have not yet been discovered, but if you’re tired of waiting to find out what those virtues are, you might want to use one of these homemade herbicides instead of the chemical versions.
Many common weeds can be either food, medicine, or unwanted visitors to the garden, depending on the varieties and how you view them. But if you’ve eaten all of them you can, and you still need to get rid of weeds in your yard, it’s far better for you, your soil, and your local waterways to choose a more environmentally friendly herbicide than those commonly found in the home and garden center.
Strong chemical herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides can end up polluting our drinking water, our groundwater, and surface water, so it’s important to consider the longer term effects of using them, and to instead make the choice to use a gentler herbicide, which won’t contribute to the larger issue of water contamination.
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Thank you Stephan, a lot of us have been waiting for this report. Not one, but many ways to get rid of weeds without the earth damaging, cancer causing roundup! Yeah!
I have been using salt and vinegar for 50 years to eliminate weeds. It is very helpful to know that a stronger (20%) version of vinegar is available, and I will look for it. Thank you Stephan.