It’s a hot & humid +34C/93F today…it was so hot even early this morning!! By 8am it was already +25C which was totally crazy!! This kind of heat just hits you and makes you feel yucky! Some areas of the city are +37C/98F and even +42C/107F.
But the best thing with this heat is eliminating these pesky weeds!! I’ve pulled weeds by hand so many times and they come back even more lush than before, so I decided I’d try another way without using chemicals! Since we have dogs, we wanted to get rid of the weeds naturally. And I could not believe how well this worked!!
This is yesterday before we put the homemade weed-be-gone on the weeds. Look how lush the weeds are!
I mixed up some salt (I used coarse sea salt), blue Dawn dish soap and vinegar (the stronger the better — we used both cleaning vinegar and pickling vinegar) and I mixed it up in a watering can (that we use just for weeds) and poured over top. It basked in the hot sunshine and “boom,” weeds are toasted!!
This is from yesterday evening after being in the hot sun after the homemade weed-be-gone was poured on it. It smells horrible but works really well! It even worked in the anthill we had.
This is from this afternoon!! Super toasty! What a great way to get rid of those pesky weeds! Now all I have to do is pick them up and it’ll look fantastic again!
I could not believe how well this worked! I highly recommend!
In a watering can, add:
A few shakes of coarse salt
A few squirts of blue Dawn dish soap
4 L vinegar
Combine altogether and pour over weeds, being careful to not spray any plants. Let sit in the hot sun one to two days. Pick up dried out weeds. Repeat as many times as you need.
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