Retired. Living simply and frugally. Eating healthy, home-grown, local organic food. Avoiding GMOs, processed, packaged, and shipped foods to be more kind to mother earth. Gardening is my passion.
The Backyard
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Organic Alternative to fight Weeds
There are few organic weed killers beyond good old fashioned weed pulling. This is not possible in a 400 ft stone driveway. Each year, millions of tiny blades of weeds start poking their heads through the stones and a green tinge covers the driveway. 3 times a summer, I swallowed my pride and ate my hippocratic words and sprayed Round-up on my driveway because I knew of no other way to kill weeds in stones...until this year. I cannot support Monsanto, so after extensive research, I found the alternative is in my cupboard -- VINEGAR. I have tried this with left over pickle juice just to see what happens, and it worked! The weed was dead in a day. The other choice is scalding water and of course good old fashion hoeing (what I do everywhere else but the driveway). So lets hope the local stores have enough vinegar to kill about a gazillion weeds in my driveway this summer. Its actually quite affordable too -- $1.50 per gallon times about 3 gallons per application -- that's $4.50 per month (or so) to kill weeds. I'll keep you posted on my weed patrol this summer.
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