Author Topic: Hold the toxic Roundup - Use Vinegar instead! (Read 7400 times)

Matthew · « **on:** April 20, 2009, 02:54:18 PM »

Mix 1 gallon vinegar from the grocery store (distilled white vinegar, for example) with a few squirts of Dawn or other dish soap (regular dish soap -- not dishwashing detergent).

Spray this with a $2.00 spray bottle on the weeds you don't like, and watch them die in 24 hours. Doing in the morning works best, because the sun will hit them all day. Do this on a sunny day, of course.

The vinegar dries out the plant, and the soap helps keep the vinegar in place until it can "do its work".

Need I point out: Don't spray this on any plants you DO like. If some gets on them, quickly rinse it off and they should be fine.

I'm sure vinegar is much cheaper than roundup, and it's non-toxic to boot! It won't harm the environment or your children.

Roundup causes cancer (leukemia, to be precise) so avoid it at all costs. It's made by Monsanto, which is the closest thing to the Devil's own corporation we have here on earth!

Matthew

parentsfortruth · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2009, 04:56:33 PM »

Comparing roundup to vinegar is like comparing rat poison to water.

Daniel12 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 02, 2009, 03:46:09 PM »

White distilled vinegar also great for eliminating and controlling mold in the shower. Works just as well if not better than bleach in my opinion.

Matthew · « **Reply #3 on:** May 02, 2009, 03:56:32 PM »

I use bleach to clean just about everything these days.

But if I ran out of bleach, I'd use vinegar.

Both are cheap, and can be used for hundreds of things.

By the way, I've been using salt & dawn dish soap instead of vinegar the last several times I've gone weedkilling. You just have to be more careful -- if you spray it NEXT TO your garden, it might end up IN your garden after the next rain.

So use salt & soap on your driveway, sidewalk cracks, etc.

Matthew

Matthew · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2009, 10:11:40 AM »

MyrnaM · « **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2016, 03:54:31 PM »

Bumping; Because it is so informative now for the Season.