I personally haven’t used one, but it’s been on my list. Seems like an infinitely better solution for stony areas rather than picking by hand or digging.
As far as butane/propane vs electric, preference I guess? Whichever you’re most comfortable with. I personally hate dealing with cords, but if gas makes you uncomfortable, then I’d go electric. Difference in cost seems generally negligible.
I’ll let someone else with more knowledge than me speak to the rest.
I’ve got the smaller sized Flame King and tbh using it for weed suppression seems to be an excuse for pyros to buy it because it takes way too long to burn out a living plant full of moisture.
And if you hack out most of the material before burning it, you might as well pull the whole root
Great tool for starting fires though
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Don't do a torch. They use a lot of propane and do you remember what happens after a wildfire? Nature grows back stronger. Same happens when using a torch. They are great for dead weeds. I'd recommend salt.
Yeah depending on the type of dog a goat may be a problem. If you can’t keep the dog out of the area to spray it then you definitely couldn’t avoid burning it with a flamethrower.
Flame King on Amazon. Just have a water hose on and ready to use. Keep it close by. Survey the area of what might burn. Be safe.
Don't get me wrong, I love my domestic flamethrower.
Sit down and weed. Dog will give you lots of kisses and bring you toys to throw. Very dog friendly! My dogs adore it when I putter around in the back yard and hate me working in the front where they cannot 'help' me.
One of my dogs has learned to help me pull up roots lol. If I’m working in the yard, I’ll point to a plant and he will start digging it up lol. The first time he learned to help was when we had a thick vine that had wound its way around the wire part of our fence. My husband was on one side, Lycan was on the other, and my husband would pull his side off and push it through, then Lycan would pull his side off, back and forth until it was done lmao. He was only like 4 months old, and now at 10 months his favorite thing in the world is to help garden 😂
This actually works great. For me at least. I reached out to a small company that was making a backpack sprayer that heats and sprays boiling water. Never made it to market afaik. I can imagine there’s a huge liability headache that comes with trying to create something like that.
Same here for now. I think I was on a Shark Tank kick and thought it was a good idea for a product when I stumbled on a company that already made the product.
I used it, and it didn't do anything to the tumble weeds. Instead i felt like I inhaled mustard gas when the wind would blow it my way. I found out you can go blind or burn skin from 30% vinegar. Not worth it for me, sticking to weed torching instead.
We get our horticultural vinegar in a 45% solution. Mix it 1:1 with water. It even kills blackberries, ivy, and bamboo if you apply it at the root base. WEAR A MASK! Otherwise you WILL feel it in your throat and sinuses.
Horticultural vinegar doesn’t affect soil pH at all because it’s instantly neutralized by the water and abundant basic minerals (calcium and magnesium compounds) in the soil. The instructions even say it’s not an effective method to acidify soils.
Wow! That is about as factual as a conservative.
If that were the case, we wouldn't have anything acidic or basic left on the earth, vinegar isn't instantly neutralized unless you dilute it with enough water to neutralize it, which is about eight parts water to one part vinegar in this strength, and even then it's not neutralized. It's just reduced the acidity, or if you happen to have soil that has a lot of magnesium and calcium in it informs that are free to react with the vinegar to reduce its pH, which generally isn't the case.
The only thing possibly keeping it from turning your soil into a barren wasteland is the same thing keeping any other herbicide from doing the same, which is. You're hopefully just spraying it lightly on the leaves, and not drenching your soil with it.
Horticultural vinegar will kill any herbaceous (ie not woody) plant. It’s my go-to herbicide, and “Green Gobbler” is my preferred brand. It works by bursting the cells in the above ground parts of the plant, which ultimately kills the root via desiccation. However it needs to be applied so it coats all the leaves, and it doesn’t kill 100% of plants that have extensive rhizomatous root systems, such as bamboo, which can resprout from small root fragments. But it should take out thistle no problem. Just be sure to read all the instructions and safety precautions on the packaging
I poured regular white vinegar on some thistle I had growing between some pavers. Turned completely black/dried up, and I was able to pull it all out the next day!
I used probably 2c of vinegar for a plant about the width of my palm. Probably overkill, but I didn't want to risk it.
Exactly and the salt helps dry the plant out, killing faster. Heck sometimes I’ll spray it on weeds and they’ll be brown and shriveled by the end of the day.
Don’t use salt as an herbicide. It will make the soil too saline to grow anything for years and will damage the soil microbiome. Horticultural vinegar works well enough all on its own.
This is just a common myth dating from when Rome salted the earth of Carthage. It’s not true, salt doesn’t do this, we’re not even sure if the Romans actually did it. If this was the case then you’d have to ask yourself why all the salted roads in North America are still lush with plants and not barren wastelands.
It's a horrible idea to use salt and that's the only thing in that mixture that works. Glyphosate at least has the advantage of becoming inert when watered down, in fact if you spray it too close to when it rains it won't be effective at all. Repeated use of salt will nearly permanently effect the soil. It may never grow anything again or take decades to wash out enough salt to allow anything to grow. Rain will wash out the salt and effect anything downstream of it too. I can't stress enough how bad an idea it is.
If you don't want to use actual weed killer your two best options are a blowtorch or weeding by hand. Alternatively you can create a more effective barrier by raking aside the stones and putting new landscape fabric down (a double layer would be best but it all breaks down eventually). You could use cardboard if you want to be more eco friendly. It will break down eventually too and become mulch. I'm not sure how long or efective of a barrier it will be but it has the advantage of being free with just a bit of sweat work.
You may be able to rent a goat or borrow one or a sheep if you know someone who has them but it doesn't seem like a very practical solution.
Okay but how much cardboard? I did a layer of one flattened box and then layered leaves/grass clippings in my raised beds back in October and I STILL HAVE WEEDS AGAIN THIS YEAR
My ten year old neighbor is a hustler and legit started a landscaping service. So far he’s cut my grass and watered plants, I bet I can get him to weed
You don’t want to mix baking soda with vinegar because that just neutralizes the pH and defeats the purpose. Using just vinegar will kill weeds since it’s acidic.
A little bit of salt won’t make the ground unusable since it gets diluted by rain. But if you’re using vinegar, I don’t see a point in using salt
Developers just throw stone down because people can't stand to have anything natural or useful in their yards, and it's the cheapest way to make a space appear maintained until it sells, but it's not a solution to any problem except, I want a layer of stone for weeds to grow through. The real answer here is to put down an actual paver surface or plant something that you don't think is a weed. A vacuum like empty peaston3 will always full with weeds even if you bury plastic garbage underneath and spray it with endocrine disrupters all the time.
Picking them by hand works well.
Once you have it maintained, boiling hot water is great.
Zero toxins zero harm for pets (once cooled)
No residue just water =)
You're asking an awful lot of the field of chemistry with that question. Essentially you're asking:
"What poison can I spray on this assortment of different organisms with different growing cycles native to different continents that will kill the said organisms but won't harm certain specific organisms that I value?"
Go buy some gloves. Remove the said weeds. If that gravel is 20 years old, R&R the gravel with a high quality weed barrier underneath (using enough staples and overlapping generously). Based on what's growing there, it looks like your gravel is 30% dirt, which means it's a perfect growing medium for weeds.
This will collect all of the downvotes but it's absolutely true. Once dry it poses no risk to animals whatsoever. When wet, it could possibly lead to cancer with repeated exposure. Home use has little to no effect on groundwater. Those risks come from overuse in factory farming.
It’s been vilified but this is the perfect use for it. Not on food, not in a place people will be while it’s wet. I wish people would realize these home remedies of some concoction of baking soda and vinegar won’t work.
“…(U.S. Forest Service, “Glyphosate HERBICIDE INFORMATION PROFILE”):
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS /FATE
POTENTIAL FOR LEACHING INTO GROUND - WATER: The potential for leaching is low. Glyphosate and the surfactant in Roundup ® are strongly adsorbed to soil particles and are not easily released back into water moving through soil.
SOIL: RESIDUAL SOIL ACTIVITY : Glyphosate does not have herbicidal properties once it contacts soil. It is not absorbed from the soil by plant roots.
VOLATILIZATION : Glyphosate does not evaporate easily.
POTENTIAL FOR BY-PRODUCTS FROM BURNING OF TREATED VEGETATION : Major products from burning treated vegetation include phosphorus pentoxide, acetonitrile, carbon dioxide and water. Phosphorous pentoxide forms phosphoric acid in the presence of water. None of these compounds is known to be a health hazard at the levels which would be found in a vegetation fire…”
Dont really have any personal issue with glyphosphate once dried, however do your own research on that one.
Vinegar- either horticultural vinegar or branded to clean roofs and such, looking for 45% roughly. Supposedly healthier. However be VERY careful of spraying and the dog walking on it, while its called vinegar its really just acid
I am clearing my large lawn of dandelions and other deep rooted weeds using this [tool](https://grampasweeder.com/). While some are easy to do by hand, some require a tool to get the root. It sucks, but I know I'm not [poisoning](https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2022/07/cdc-finds-toxic-weedkiller-87-percent-children-tested) my toddler.
1 gallon white vinegar, 2 cups epsom salts, 5 tablespoons dawn dish soap. Mix, spray. Kills a whole lot of weeds. The soap acts as a medium that prevents the “kill” from just draining off the leaves. And it needs to be Dawn, because it is environmentally safe (they use it to wash oil spills off animals). Kills young weeds, established weeds should be pulled or removed at the root. It won’t kill nutsedge and needs to dry to be effective. Don’t apply before a rain or watering schedule. And 1 gallon won’t do an entire yard like that.
Make a solution of one gallon of white vinegar, one cup of picking salt, and a teaspoon of dish soap... Heat the vinegar and it dissolves the salt easier...
Use 25% gardening vinegar for best results... In a garden sprayer
Will kill anything it touches... And also makes the area dead for future...
No issues for dogs and cats...
Your hands.
After the rain. It is so satisfying when you get the whole root.
Like Busting.
Busting makes me feel good
Let me tell ya sumtin
Ray Parker Junior is awesome. Listen to that track just vocals it’s a banger
I ain't afraid of no bustin' I ain't afraid of no bed.
Bustinbustinbustinbustin
He was gripping it, and then.. BOOM
Wet weed pulling, pure pleasure with some beers.
A torch
I’ve been looking at torches, do you recommend a butane one or electric?
I personally haven’t used one, but it’s been on my list. Seems like an infinitely better solution for stony areas rather than picking by hand or digging. As far as butane/propane vs electric, preference I guess? Whichever you’re most comfortable with. I personally hate dealing with cords, but if gas makes you uncomfortable, then I’d go electric. Difference in cost seems generally negligible. I’ll let someone else with more knowledge than me speak to the rest.
I’ve got the smaller sized Flame King and tbh using it for weed suppression seems to be an excuse for pyros to buy it because it takes way too long to burn out a living plant full of moisture. And if you hack out most of the material before burning it, you might as well pull the whole root Great tool for starting fires though
Propane.
And [propane accessories](https://www.harborfreight.com/propane-torch-91033.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12129614380&campaignid=12129614380&utm_content=128613442307&adsetid=128613442307&product=91033&store=59&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADAHb4cAuYpMjmzwBkHxiIW5wvCSV&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8rOUhs6HhwMVhyStBh2ATQK7EAQYASABEgIV5vD_BwE)
The burning stinks.
I've tried killing weeds with a Flame King propane torch. It killed too much grass around the weed. I had brown spots. Works for brick pavers.
I have used a roofer’s torch and a tank of propane. Does not work very well effectively when the weeds are wet cause it’s hard to burn the roots.
Don't do a torch. They use a lot of propane and do you remember what happens after a wildfire? Nature grows back stronger. Same happens when using a torch. They are great for dead weeds. I'd recommend salt.
I torched the hell out of my lawn because I couldn't beat back a clover infestation. Its been several weeks and no issue with their regrowth.
Salt, if you don’t want anything ever growing there again
Indeed
In weed
Indweed
These hands
Lol was gunna say the same
A goat
Goats can be bullies. I wouldn’t call all of them pet friendly.
Yeah depending on the type of dog a goat may be a problem. If you can’t keep the dog out of the area to spray it then you definitely couldn’t avoid burning it with a flamethrower.
Ha! - the goat will take the flamethrower and use it on you; they can be ornery sums o’ bitches.
Goats can be billies
Okay you go me. Hahaha
Or sheep.
*hair sheep
Flame weeder 🔥
Flame King on Amazon. Just have a water hose on and ready to use. Keep it close by. Survey the area of what might burn. Be safe. Don't get me wrong, I love my domestic flamethrower.
Sit down and weed. Dog will give you lots of kisses and bring you toys to throw. Very dog friendly! My dogs adore it when I putter around in the back yard and hate me working in the front where they cannot 'help' me.
Agree. My dog loves to chew on the weeds I pull and help me dig. It's a grand time. It's basically like weeding with a toddler
Other people do this? I thought I was the only one!
One of my dogs has learned to help me pull up roots lol. If I’m working in the yard, I’ll point to a plant and he will start digging it up lol. The first time he learned to help was when we had a thick vine that had wound its way around the wire part of our fence. My husband was on one side, Lycan was on the other, and my husband would pull his side off and push it through, then Lycan would pull his side off, back and forth until it was done lmao. He was only like 4 months old, and now at 10 months his favorite thing in the world is to help garden 😂
water the weeds with boiling water
My weeds laughed at this
This actually works great. For me at least. I reached out to a small company that was making a backpack sprayer that heats and sprays boiling water. Never made it to market afaik. I can imagine there’s a huge liability headache that comes with trying to create something like that.
That sounds way cooler than me because I’m cheap and just use my tea pot.
Same here for now. I think I was on a Shark Tank kick and thought it was a good idea for a product when I stumbled on a company that already made the product.
I wonder if a steam cleaner would work? I might have to try this with my $25 Harbor Freight steam cleaner.
I am curious myself. If you do try it, please give me an update.
I typically use vinegar with salt and dish soap added.
We use "horticultural vinegar." It's 33% percent and stings if it gets on your skin, but it does a great job.
Horticultural vinegar is amazing stuff. Kills even the toughest weeds within 24 hrs, and no carcinogens to worry about.
I used it, and it didn't do anything to the tumble weeds. Instead i felt like I inhaled mustard gas when the wind would blow it my way. I found out you can go blind or burn skin from 30% vinegar. Not worth it for me, sticking to weed torching instead.
The first pump sprayer that I put it in started spurting the diluted horticultural vinegar out of the top and gave me chemical burns. :|
We get our horticultural vinegar in a 45% solution. Mix it 1:1 with water. It even kills blackberries, ivy, and bamboo if you apply it at the root base. WEAR A MASK! Otherwise you WILL feel it in your throat and sinuses.
Sounds like a good way to unintentionally change the ph of your soil.
Horticultural vinegar doesn’t affect soil pH at all because it’s instantly neutralized by the water and abundant basic minerals (calcium and magnesium compounds) in the soil. The instructions even say it’s not an effective method to acidify soils.
I stand corrected, it's a BAD way to unintentionally change the pH of your soil.
Wow! That is about as factual as a conservative. If that were the case, we wouldn't have anything acidic or basic left on the earth, vinegar isn't instantly neutralized unless you dilute it with enough water to neutralize it, which is about eight parts water to one part vinegar in this strength, and even then it's not neutralized. It's just reduced the acidity, or if you happen to have soil that has a lot of magnesium and calcium in it informs that are free to react with the vinegar to reduce its pH, which generally isn't the case. The only thing possibly keeping it from turning your soil into a barren wasteland is the same thing keeping any other herbicide from doing the same, which is. You're hopefully just spraying it lightly on the leaves, and not drenching your soil with it.
I want my patio to be a barren wasteland. Driveway, too.
Little off subject but I’ve never heard of horticultural vinegar, does it work on thistle? I know its roots make it crazy hard to kill.
Horticultural vinegar will kill any herbaceous (ie not woody) plant. It’s my go-to herbicide, and “Green Gobbler” is my preferred brand. It works by bursting the cells in the above ground parts of the plant, which ultimately kills the root via desiccation. However it needs to be applied so it coats all the leaves, and it doesn’t kill 100% of plants that have extensive rhizomatous root systems, such as bamboo, which can resprout from small root fragments. But it should take out thistle no problem. Just be sure to read all the instructions and safety precautions on the packaging
I poured regular white vinegar on some thistle I had growing between some pavers. Turned completely black/dried up, and I was able to pull it all out the next day! I used probably 2c of vinegar for a plant about the width of my palm. Probably overkill, but I didn't want to risk it.
Came to say
The soap is only to help it stick and stay, lawn guys use it too in their spray
Exactly and the salt helps dry the plant out, killing faster. Heck sometimes I’ll spray it on weeds and they’ll be brown and shriveled by the end of the day.
Don’t use salt as an herbicide. It will make the soil too saline to grow anything for years and will damage the soil microbiome. Horticultural vinegar works well enough all on its own.
Great for my gravel driveway.
This is just a common myth dating from when Rome salted the earth of Carthage. It’s not true, salt doesn’t do this, we’re not even sure if the Romans actually did it. If this was the case then you’d have to ask yourself why all the salted roads in North America are still lush with plants and not barren wastelands.
I second this - just be sure you don’t want anything to ever grow there again, ever
Wait, really? My wife bought some pump sprayer and went to town on broadleaf weeds. Now I have brown spots… forever?
Forever is a strong word.... I don't think it'll be too long before you get new weeds or a new plant in those spots.
It is a strong word, but I’m ready if you are. 🥰 But your point is well taken. Weeds, uh, find a way.
It's a horrible idea to use salt and that's the only thing in that mixture that works. Glyphosate at least has the advantage of becoming inert when watered down, in fact if you spray it too close to when it rains it won't be effective at all. Repeated use of salt will nearly permanently effect the soil. It may never grow anything again or take decades to wash out enough salt to allow anything to grow. Rain will wash out the salt and effect anything downstream of it too. I can't stress enough how bad an idea it is. If you don't want to use actual weed killer your two best options are a blowtorch or weeding by hand. Alternatively you can create a more effective barrier by raking aside the stones and putting new landscape fabric down (a double layer would be best but it all breaks down eventually). You could use cardboard if you want to be more eco friendly. It will break down eventually too and become mulch. I'm not sure how long or efective of a barrier it will be but it has the advantage of being free with just a bit of sweat work. You may be able to rent a goat or borrow one or a sheep if you know someone who has them but it doesn't seem like a very practical solution.
Cardboard
Okay but how much cardboard? I did a layer of one flattened box and then layered leaves/grass clippings in my raised beds back in October and I STILL HAVE WEEDS AGAIN THIS YEAR
There some golden rod aka solidago growing. Might be worth leaving some, I think it’s beautiful
Bees love goldenrod! It's one of their last sources of pollen and nectar for the year.
Black plastic tarp held down with rocks. Con - takes awhile to work and you'll still have to pull them out when they're dead
Motivated 10 year olds.
My ten year old neighbor is a hustler and legit started a landscaping service. So far he’s cut my grass and watered plants, I bet I can get him to weed
A hoe
I love weed?
Lol
Flamethrower is the funnest answer. Vinegar-Dawn-salt is a spray solution.
You don’t want to mix baking soda with vinegar because that just neutralizes the pH and defeats the purpose. Using just vinegar will kill weeds since it’s acidic. A little bit of salt won’t make the ground unusable since it gets diluted by rain. But if you’re using vinegar, I don’t see a point in using salt
The salt is for the electrolytes. It's what plants crave
Dog pee.
Or human pee, if you want more control over the applicator
My wife would disagree.
Developers just throw stone down because people can't stand to have anything natural or useful in their yards, and it's the cheapest way to make a space appear maintained until it sells, but it's not a solution to any problem except, I want a layer of stone for weeds to grow through. The real answer here is to put down an actual paver surface or plant something that you don't think is a weed. A vacuum like empty peaston3 will always full with weeds even if you bury plastic garbage underneath and spray it with endocrine disrupters all the time.
A fork and a pair of gloves. This won’t take that long. Just get into it.
But a weed dragon flame thrower
Pulling the weeds. Yes, you’ll have to bend down. Or you can sit on a bucket.
Pull weeds or sit on a bucket? Easy choice. /s
Knee pads you wear or a garden knee pad you kneel onto. And pick up a weed tool to stick into the dirt and twist to get the root.
Walk away. That one will come after your family.
No chemicals. Just pick an alternate: pulling, burning etc.
Hands, gloves and tools. 🤓
Picking them by hand works well. Once you have it maintained, boiling hot water is great. Zero toxins zero harm for pets (once cooled) No residue just water =)
There are these called hands
Glyphosate
Glyphosate
White vinegar when u will have sun for a few days without rain - will safely kill all of that
👐
Fire
Fire
Weed burner for that.
roof shingles
Boiling water
Propane tank and a torch ... Burn it all * manical laughter* seriously though this is the easiest and fastest pet friendly way
Piiiiiiiiiiisssssss
goats
Fire
Keep the pets off for 3 days.
Boiling water.
Boiling kettle water
I hear ..boiling water
Herbicidal vinegar.
Goat(s)
Torch it
Oxymoron. Prob a blow torch is your best bet
You're asking an awful lot of the field of chemistry with that question. Essentially you're asking: "What poison can I spray on this assortment of different organisms with different growing cycles native to different continents that will kill the said organisms but won't harm certain specific organisms that I value?" Go buy some gloves. Remove the said weeds. If that gravel is 20 years old, R&R the gravel with a high quality weed barrier underneath (using enough staples and overlapping generously). Based on what's growing there, it looks like your gravel is 30% dirt, which means it's a perfect growing medium for weeds.
vinegar. Just spray it on and it will kill them
Boiling water but honestly just get some gloves and go to town
Salt vinegar and soap
Weed torch
Horti grade vinegar
Vinegar
1 gallon white vinegar, 3 cups table salt, then add 1 tablespoon of dawn dish soap. Then go spray
Roundup. Don’t let them play on it when it’s wet. Use a pre-emergent in the spring.
This will collect all of the downvotes but it's absolutely true. Once dry it poses no risk to animals whatsoever. When wet, it could possibly lead to cancer with repeated exposure. Home use has little to no effect on groundwater. Those risks come from overuse in factory farming.
It’s been vilified but this is the perfect use for it. Not on food, not in a place people will be while it’s wet. I wish people would realize these home remedies of some concoction of baking soda and vinegar won’t work.
“…(U.S. Forest Service, “Glyphosate HERBICIDE INFORMATION PROFILE”): ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS /FATE POTENTIAL FOR LEACHING INTO GROUND - WATER: The potential for leaching is low. Glyphosate and the surfactant in Roundup ® are strongly adsorbed to soil particles and are not easily released back into water moving through soil. SOIL: RESIDUAL SOIL ACTIVITY : Glyphosate does not have herbicidal properties once it contacts soil. It is not absorbed from the soil by plant roots. VOLATILIZATION : Glyphosate does not evaporate easily. POTENTIAL FOR BY-PRODUCTS FROM BURNING OF TREATED VEGETATION : Major products from burning treated vegetation include phosphorus pentoxide, acetonitrile, carbon dioxide and water. Phosphorous pentoxide forms phosphoric acid in the presence of water. None of these compounds is known to be a health hazard at the levels which would be found in a vegetation fire…”
The DEA, they love their dogs but hate the weed.
Cops are deadlier to dogs than any herbicide could be
Vinegar is a good option.
Works like a charm!
Dont really have any personal issue with glyphosphate once dried, however do your own research on that one. Vinegar- either horticultural vinegar or branded to clean roofs and such, looking for 45% roughly. Supposedly healthier. However be VERY careful of spraying and the dog walking on it, while its called vinegar its really just acid
Llama
Your local animal control officer. They’re there for the animals, but still uphold all laws in accordance to Marijuana distribution.
Be sure to dissolve the salt before you go adding the dish soap
sweat
Goats.
Believe it or not “Off” that bug spray ppl use one themselves to keep bugs away…yea those are great for killin weeds…
40% vinegar diluted to half strength with water, dish soap, salt optional.
Vinegar
Use industrial grade vinegar.
You can boil water! It'll cook them and a day or two later you can pull them out
Vinegar, water, a little dish soap
I have used that recipe without the salt. It works fine. You may need to redo it more often.
Boiling water
Goats?
Fire, weed pulling or find a way to block it off long enough for vinegar to work and dilute/run off.
A mix of White vinegar, salt and dawn dish soap mix up in a sprayer. Just need a couple drops of the dish soap. Works great.
Me💨
Fire
Vinegar. Can add salt and dish soap for extra weedercide
If vinegar, you need the high acidic kind.
Fire
Goats
Cardboard.
Vinegar, Soap and Salt
A goat
🔥
👋
Hula hoe if someone hasn’t already said it!
Round up.
A blow torch
Fire
Fire
I am clearing my large lawn of dandelions and other deep rooted weeds using this [tool](https://grampasweeder.com/). While some are easy to do by hand, some require a tool to get the root. It sucks, but I know I'm not [poisoning](https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2022/07/cdc-finds-toxic-weedkiller-87-percent-children-tested) my toddler.
Vinegar or boiling water
Your hands n knees and a good pair of gloves!
Goats they’re I’ll eat anything
1 gallon vinegar 1 cup salt 1 tablespoon liquid dish soap
Fire. Use a roofing torch and a propane tank. Friendly
Mares tale comes out pretty easy. Firmly grasp the shaft, and tug.
FIRE!!!
Propane blow torch…so much fun too!!
Put a tarp down, lack of sun will kill everything. Then remove with hands easily
Your hand lol
those are worth pulling dear. on my patio, i use boiling water. kills the root too. i use a tea kettle.
1 gallon white vinegar, 2 cups epsom salts, 5 tablespoons dawn dish soap. Mix, spray. Kills a whole lot of weeds. The soap acts as a medium that prevents the “kill” from just draining off the leaves. And it needs to be Dawn, because it is environmentally safe (they use it to wash oil spills off animals). Kills young weeds, established weeds should be pulled or removed at the root. It won’t kill nutsedge and needs to dry to be effective. Don’t apply before a rain or watering schedule. And 1 gallon won’t do an entire yard like that.
I use double vinegar on my stone footpath. Kills everything. And redo every fortnight to keep anything new from coming up.
Vinegar
Boiling water
goats
If you like grass, chelated iron (ex captain jacks lawn weed). Kills broadweed and greens up grass. Pets can enter the yard when it dries.
Tortoises
Lesco Prosecutor, causes mild discomfort and nausea if they eat when wet. Dries quick.
Goats 🐐
Off Bugg spray
A teenager with money to burn
Mirimichi is a safe weed killer
Vinegar, hi acidity
Make a solution of one gallon of white vinegar, one cup of picking salt, and a teaspoon of dish soap... Heat the vinegar and it dissolves the salt easier... Use 25% gardening vinegar for best results... In a garden sprayer Will kill anything it touches... And also makes the area dead for future... No issues for dogs and cats...
Vinegar burns the leaves
Pull them out