Did you know you can kill weeds naturally with vinegar? Yes, yes you can. The next time you spot weeds popping up through your mulch, gravel or bricks, head to the kitchen and grab the vinegar. Rather than shelling out big bucks for chemicals, simply spray a few squirts of vinegar directly on your weeds.
The acetic acid in the vinegar will kill anything it comes in contact with by temporarily lowering the pH of the soil.
Not only is vinegar cheap and non-toxic, it doesn’t do any long term damage to the soil and it’s fast acting. But be careful not to squirt vinegar of your vegetable plants or just like the weeds, they’ll die.
For best results spay your weeds with vinegar on a sunny day and keep in mind that some weeds have really long roots and may need to be sprayed more than once. I have found that an application of vinegar about once a month seeds to do the trick during the summer months.
So there you have it. That’s how you kill weeds naturally with vinegar!
Summer, it’s finally here, and I am so excited! Even if there are weeds to deal with. 😉
Have a wonderful weekend everyone, enjoy the sunshine.
~Mavis
Nancy says
No mosquitoes and black flies! : )
SUZANNE says
Are you saying that by using the vinegar on the weeds between the bricks, you will get rid of the mosquitos? If so, how does that work?
Nancy says
Mavis was excited that summer was finally here, even if she did have to deal with weeds. In years past. she has had to wear a long sleeve coat to work in her garden because of black flies and mosquitoes. Hopefully won’t have to do that where she is now. : )
Deborah says
You can also add salt to the vinegar. I haven’t tried it yet, but plan to soon. We have poison ivy, and both are allergic. I’m hoping it works for it.
Beth Craven Connor says
Only add salt, i.e., table salt, to places where you don’t want anything to grow. Natural weed killer recipes often call for Epsom salts + vinegar + liquid soap.
Susan says
i’ll be spraying today!
This obviously isn’t about vinegar, but I thought of you when I read this article in the NYTimes about island sheep in Maine. So cool!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/travel/lens-sheep-island-maine.html
PMHTX says
I’ve been using a combination of salt & vinegar to kill weeds in the expansion joints of our drive and walkway for years but one still needs to be careful as the combination can leech to other nearby plants or subsequent wanted plants like grass or tender plants and kill them also. I sometimes follow with a light foliar ‘feeding” of the mixture.
Shannon Brown says
What a cheap and effective weed killer!
I love the before and after pictures. I always keep jugs of vinegar around for household cleaning, but never thought of using it on weeds like this. Spraying it once a month throughout the summer is certainly an easy enough routine.
Thanks for sharing this tip. And happy weekend!
Mable says
It is even more effective to us gardener’s vinegar, which is 45% acidity, instead of 5%.
Tracy says
Honestly, on pavers, gravel, etc. a kettle of boiling water does a pretty good job too!
Joann says
Yes. It does
I use my water from the canner after making jams.
Bev says
We also use boiling water on the weeds that come up in the cracks on the driveway. It kills them off perfectly. The only challenge with this method is that you have to keep filling the kettle with water & wait for it to boil.
Linda Practical Parsimony says
Do not use salt at all. It builds up and eventually the ground is sterile. Vinegar or boiling water is best. You could boil the water on the grill to keep from hauling it out of the house.
Nancy Pinkerton says
Does this work on creeping Charlie in the yard? It’s very hard to get rid of this stuff! Thanks