How do I kill weeds without using toxic chemicals or pulling them out of the ground?
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I'm stumped at your question: "how do I kill weeds without....pulling them out of the ground"? Why wouldn't you want to pull weeds out of the ground? Usually in grass there is some ground cover that has a far reaching tentacled root system. And it's best to try to pull those out of the ground as best you can and then treat what's left. If they are in your grass (like they are in everyone's grass) then you'd probably have to replant or get sod patches in the fall. If you're talking about weeds among plants then pulling them is easy to do, or use that dark plastic and the weeds won't grow. Weeds between cement is best removed by things like roundup, but of course that's toxic but you don't use much of it as you spray right on the weed, then the weed dies and you remove it.
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One way is to pour salt on the ground around the base of the weed. Do this everytime it rains and unless the weed is salt tolerant like some of the plants that grow in swamps are, it will die.
Actually you can do it with vinegar. A couple caveats though. First of all, vinegar is non-discriminate- in other words it will kill any plant or grass, not just weeds. The other thing is that household vinegar is about a 5% concentration which will work fairly well but for some really hard to kill invasive plants you might need something stronger, like 20%, which you might find at a garden center. Call around, but in the meantime try what you've got in the cupboard. Just spray or paint it on the leaves. If you want to protect the other plants around it, put a coffee can with the ends removed around it while you spray.
You take a torch and burn them down. Don't get it around your hair because it will burn your head.
^ Try using vinegar, please check out the sites below, they will tell you how to use vinegar and mixing it with other ingredients that are non-toxic. I hope this helps, good luck.
you can pour boiling water on them...not fast, but effective.
my neighbor uses bleach...is that a toxic chemical? I put black trash bags and bricks or cinder blocks on them for a few weeks
Talk them to death.
pour boiling hot water on them or lay landscape fabric but if its your lawn, you need to dig them out
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