Homemade grass killer good idea?

[Hunting4fun]

I've been thinking about using the method where you dissolve a lot of salt into some water and use it on gravel driveways and around our sheds. Basically places where I know I will never plant there again. Has anyone tried this method? I think its worth a try because its almost free. People on youtube say it works but the people here who own and are around ranches would probably know.better.

[gpena]

Two bottles of salt, one bottle of vinegar, mix the two in a two gallon pump sprayer and fill the rest with warm water. I let it sit for a couple days to disolve the salt. Use it like you said on cracks that weeds grow thru and anything else you want dead.

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[rtp]

Two bottles of salt, one bottle of vinegar, mix the two in a two gallon pump sprayer and fill the rest with warm water. I let it sit for a couple days to disolve the salt. Use it like you said on cracks that weeds grow thru and anything else you want dead.

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If you put it on brick pavers would it discolor the brick color? As in, would there be a salt residue that would leave a whiteness on them?

[gpena]

Never used it on pavers, just concrete and back fence line. I'll go take a look and see if there is any stain on the wood pickets when I get home tonight.

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[Calrob]

Scared to use glyphosate?

[IkemanTX]

This works wonders....




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[FIREMAN]

Mix the vinegar , salt, water and liquid dish soap ( dawn ). mix well and spray on weeds and grass you want to kill.

[gpena]

Ah yes I forgot about the Dawn

Mix the vinegar , salt, water and liquid dish soap ( dawn ). mix well and spray on weeds and grass you want to kill.

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[tex4k]

The effectiveness of salt will depend on your soil and rainfall, couple of good rains on sandy soil and your salt will be somewhere else, also it takes quite a bit of salt to be real effective. To make 10lb brine there is 2.2 lbs of salt dissolved in each gallon of water.

[Hunting4fun]

Scared to use glyphosate?

Just seems to add up to $$ when used a lot. Last bottle I bought didn't go very far for 25 dollars. If I can use a salt solution for 1/4 the price I'd rather do that.

[IkemanTX]

Flame weeding is probably the most cost effective means of weed control on hard surfaces like gravel/pavers/concrete.
5 seconds of direct exposure is MORE than enough kill what’s growing. That’s not much propane....


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[panhandlehunter]

Just seems to add up to $$ when used a lot. Last bottle I bought didn't go very far for 25 dollars. If I can use a salt solution for 1/4 the price I'd rather do that.

2.5 gallon concentrated gly at tractor supply is like $60 and makes a few hundred gallons.

[8mpg]

2.5 gallon concentrated gly at tractor supply is like $60 and makes a few hundred gallons.

I agree. The stuff I got from tractor supply was mixed 4oz per gallon. I think it was $24 for 32 gallons mixed (one gallon concentrate)

[brokeno]

Gonna try my blow torch

[stickbowcoop]

We seem to always be under a burn ban so the blow torch isn't an option. Plus most of the weeds here grow right along the house. Probably a bad idea lol. We thought of trying the salt/vinegar/Dawn solution try to kill poison ivy, but I just ended up buying Roundup to kill it. It worked.