Salt and vinegar against weeds: a recipe, proportions, reviews

There is no such garden on which weeds would not grow. Fighting them is difficult enough, and this is a laborious and tedious process. Weeds are ubiquitous and perfectly adapt to any conditions. If you do not get rid of them in time, then they occupy the whole garden. It is believed that weeding is the most effective method of combating weeds, but this is far from being the case. Not only is this hard work, time-consuming, so there is no guarantee that you will get rid of them forever, especially for perennial weeds.

Nevertheless, experienced truck farmers successfully use non-traditional methods to combat these annoying occupants, long ago abandoning the hazardous chemicals.

Vinegar as a herbicide

Vinegar against weeds is one of the effective means, and is safe for humans, pets, crops and soil. It destroys almost any weed plant. By the way, with the help of it you can get rid of the ants. If you divorce 40% of vinegar in half with water and sprinkle places of insects, the smell will quickly scare them away, and they will disappear.

However, one should know that vinegar can destroy not only the weeds, but also the crop plants that will get into it. Therefore, for better effect, it is necessary to improve the methods of its use.

Methods of application

It is best to use a pump sprayer or a bottle with an aerosol nozzle for the acetic solution. Especially this method is good for the destruction of weeds that occupy a large area: on paths, areas or that part of the garden, where vegetables and greens grow sparingly.

Use vinegar against the weeds should be on a windless sunny day. The absence of wind will not allow the solution to enter useful plants, and the sun activates its effect even more. If you want to selectively apply vinegar on the weeds, then it is better to do it with a brush moistened in the solution.

It is necessary to spray the solution abundantly so that the leaves and stems in it are soaked. A couple of days after this, the result will be visible. Sometimes for particularly resistant weed plants, re-treatment is required.

Note that vinegar against weeds is desirable to apply before they begin to form seeds. It's good to do it in the early spring, when they only appear. Perennial weeds are best treated in autumn. Since at this time, due to the natural cycle of plants, the nutrients are absorbed through the leaves, vinegar, after hitting them, penetrates into the depths of the weed organism, reaches the roots and completely destroys them.

Eco-friendly destruction: recipes with vinegar

Even those plants that do not respond to chemical agents can be destroyed using vinegar against weeds. The recipe is as follows: 40% solution in equal parts diluted with water and sprayed with the resulting weed agent.

There are a few recipes that have long been used by experienced holidaymakers:

• In 2 liters of water 5 glasses of vinegar (6%) are bred. This amount is usually enough to process 2 hundred parts. Just try not to get on the crop plants, and even they will be burned.
• Mix 3 parts of table vinegar (9%) and 1 part of lemon juice. The resulting mixture is poured into a spray gun and gently sprayed with weeds.

When you need a more caustic mixture, use vinegar and salt against the weeds.

Slaughter mixture

When the solution of vinegar is added and salt, it turns out to be a truly explosive mixture, leaving no chance for the weeds to survive. With the help of it you can permanently get rid of the weeds near the fences, and also clear all weeds from the weeds. In addition, this is a very effective way of dealing with perennials, capable of constantly growing up.

How to use vinegar and salt against weeds? The proportions of the mixture are: water (1 liter), table vinegar (5 tablespoons), salt (2 tablespoons). Water is brought to a boil, then vinegar and salt are put there, stir well and the hot solution is poured into weeds. Only it is necessary to do this very carefully, so that the liquid does not get to neighboring plants.

By the way, salt can also be used without vinegar. If you sprinkle it on a bed, having receded a little space from the roots of the planted crops, then it will not only destroy the weeds, but after leaking into the upper layers of the soil, it will not allow the germination of a new one.

Herbicide Soap

They need to spray weeds, covering useful plants with a screen of thick paper. Moreover, the mixture is more effective on a hot, sunny day.

To prepare a herbicidal soap, you will need vinegar and salt (against the weeds they have proven themselves) and, in fact, soap (liquid).

The composition of the mixture is as follows: white vinegar (1 L), table salt (150 g) and one syringe of liquid soap. Salt is poured into a bottle, poured with vinegar and add soapy liquid. Then the solution is carefully shaken and poured onto the weeds, trying to keep the composition from flowing under the crop plants.

"Slaughter" mixture is obtained if you use 15-20% vinegar.

Soda - assistant summer resident

Any hostess knows how much soda is useful in everyday life. But few know that in the garden and the garden is also necessary soda. Vinegar against weeds has already proved its effectiveness. Let's now talk about baking soda.

To get rid of the small weeds that grow between the tiles of the tracks, just pour them with a strong soda solution.

But sodium bicarbonate is effective not only for the destruction of weeds. Each summer resident is familiar with such a disease of plants as powdery mildew. Those who have tried various chemical treatments, will be pleased to learn that soda is coping with this misfortune. Here are two tried and tested recipes:

• Take 5 liters of water, dilute 2 tbsp. Spoons of soda and 1 tbsp. Spoon of liquid soap. The resulting solution should be sprayed with plants before flowering, and after it, observing a weekly interval, treat 3 more times.
• Pour into the sprayer the following mixture: water (1 l) and 1 st. Spoon of soda, vegetable oil and liquid soap. Shake well, spray this plant composition once a week, trying to do it in dry cloudy weather.

Reviews of gardeners and truck farmers

Now there are many different horticultural forums where fans of growing fruits and vegetables on their sites exchange tips and share personal experiences. Do not disregard the discussion of the topic of salt and vinegar against weeds. Reviews, all as one, are the most positive. And to this method of struggle now even the most zealous admirers of the use of chemical agents are inclined. In addition, truck farmers do not stop experimenting using well-known recipes, add their innovations to them, improve them, making them more effective.

Those who have tried the methods of combating weeds described above say that they have very few chances of survival. A powerful arsenal of funds makes it possible to get rid of weeds if not forever, then for a long time. Ogorodnikov is pleased that simple means can be used in this struggle.

Finally

Ecological herbicides can effectively fight weeds without harming humans and crop plants. Vinegar against weeds is very effective, it will help get rid of them, and will also provide an opportunity to maintain the ideal condition of beds, which will significantly increase the yield of vegetables.