Vinegar, Salt and Dawn, Goodbye Weeds

By
Real Estate Agent with TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE

How about a gardening tip?  If you saw my yard at the moment you would say “from you?”  My yard is a mess, yanked out all the shrubbery in front of the house and cut down my palms.  The back is a mess due to the addition and I am giving gardening tips.

I do not like using certain chemicals to kill grass and weeds, they shall remain nameless.  I use a very simple mixture of 1 gallon of vinegar, 1 cup of salt and a squirt of Dawn dish washing soap.  So, for a few bucks I mix it in my garden sprayer and hit the pavers and the cracks in the driveway.  Vinegar kills grass and weeds, the salt gives it a lasting effect, Dawn makes it stick and the next day you see things turning brown.  I spray maybe 4 or 5 times a year and no harsh chemicals into the environment.

Those little pesky ant mounds you see pop up, ants hate vinegar and leave.  Be careful about over spray, yep been there done that!

Dick Betts, REALTOR®

The Betts Team

Touchstone Real Estate

The Villages, Florida

717-860-3107 cell

Dick@DickBetts.com

 

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Comments (28)

Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Hi Dick- I always have all three on hand so I'm sharing this with Larry to attack the weeds we have. Thank you. 

Sep 21, 2023 07:01 PM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Kathy Streib anything other than Round Up! Love my combination and it works great!

Sep 21, 2023 07:18 PM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Doug Dawes be sure you soak it first few times to build up the salt.  First treatment you might have to do it a few times.

Sep 21, 2023 07:20 PM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Sham Reddy CRS love it and not killing things we don't want to kill and making our property a toxic dump!

Sep 21, 2023 07:25 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Sep 23, 2023 06:25 PM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Kathy Streib thank you for being featured this week and calling attention to better ways to kill weeds!

Sep 24, 2023 04:03 AM
Kristin Johnston - REALTOR®
RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI
Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

Great post!  Thanks for sharing and enjoy your day!

Sep 24, 2023 06:31 AM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Kristin Johnston - REALTOR® thanks spreading the word of ways to not use chemicals.

Sep 24, 2023 10:34 AM
Leanne Smith
Dirt Road Real Estate - Golden Valley, AZ
Relocation to NW AZ with elbow room & more freedom

Hmm I shall try it on goat heads which are very large stickers that often require pliers to remove them from shoes and pant legs.

Sep 24, 2023 10:35 AM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Hi Leanne Smith If you scroll up I did some research for Kat Palmiotti about her thistles.  Turns out household vinegar is 5% and you can get 20% that kills more plants!  Might want to try it!

Sep 24, 2023 10:41 AM
Leanne Smith

Thank you but these are worse than thistles. I shall try that by upping the vinegar concentration.

Sep 24, 2023 10:46 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

This is good advice to share.

Have a great day and an outstanding week.

Sep 24, 2023 11:13 AM
Diana Dahlberg
1 Month Realty - Pleasant Prairie, WI
Real Estate in Kenosha, WI since 1994 262-308-3563

Thanks Dick Betts for the great landscaping tip.  I've seen this on YouTube and Facebook and am trying to convince my hubby to give it a try.  Next year we will!

Sep 24, 2023 02:10 PM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Diana Dahlberg buy a gallon of vinegar and dump on some weeds and watch them die and show him!

Sep 24, 2023 03:18 PM
Diana Dahlberg

Alrighty!  On it!  Thanks. 😆

Sep 24, 2023 03:53 PM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Thanks Roy Kelley love to find ways to reduce chemicals in our world and replace with nature!

Sep 24, 2023 03:19 PM
Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

Thanks for the weed killer recipe, Dick. Always nice to have non-chemical solutions.

Jeff

Sep 24, 2023 04:22 PM
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Dick Betts  what a great post and I am sorry I missed it the first time around so glad Kathy Streib  featured it:)Endre

Sep 24, 2023 11:02 PM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Endre Barath, Jr. thanks, there are ways to handle weeds other than dumping toxic chemicals!

Sep 25, 2023 03:37 AM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Thanks Jeff Dowler, CRS agree, read on one of the weed killer bottles it kills butterflies, vinegar doesn't.

Sep 25, 2023 03:38 AM
Dr. Paula McDonald
Beam & Branch Realty - Granbury, TX
Granbury, TX 936-203-0279

Thank you for this recipe that is kind to our earth. NO CHEMICALS are needed!  

Sep 25, 2023 11:02 AM
Dick Betts
TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL
REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Agree Dr. Paula McDonald the more we don't use chemicals the better it is for all of us!  

Sep 25, 2023 12:22 PM