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Originally Posted by itzfun (Post 2343281)

A friend told me about this, and it works perfectly. Never use Roundup/glyphosate again!

This solution is as cheap as it is effective, providing you with the garden that you have always dreamed of. Grab a 1/4 cup of the original blue Dawn dish soap, two cups of Epsom salts, and a gallon of distilled vinegar. From there, transfer the solution into your own weed sprayer. If you do not have one on hand, your local hardware store will have you covered.

For best results, wait until the morning dew has evaporated before spraying the solution. Once you have sprayed the weed, there is nothing else to do. When you check your garden later that day, those pesky weeds are going to be long gone. The best part of all is that this solution is actually far less costly than the harmful chemicals you are going to find at most stores.

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Those chemicals are harsher than Roundup. I kid you not. Roundup is just a weak phosphonic acid that breaks down rapidly. Just because 12 Kalifornia morons sitting on a jury decide Roundup causes cancer does not make it so.

If you try to pull them out a the root does not come out with the top of the week it will just grow back over and over again. Just spray with weed killer if they are not too close to your other plants. You can also spray the ground area where there are not weeds appearing.

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Originally Posted by BoatRatKat (Post 2343212)

I weed for my parents and they have rocks. I'm constantly doing a combo of spraying the vinegar solution and pulling up weeds. My house has all mulch and I never spray and only have to pick very few weeds out every now and then (like a handful). The mulch seems to an environment the weeds don't thrive in.

We replaced our pine needles with Pine Bark over landscape cloth. The only thing we really have any issue with is some grass shoots that come from the Zoysia grass. Almost no weeds other than that. The acidity of the pine bark keeps them away. I don't get the rocks, Pine Bark looks way more natural, easy to maintain, and if you need more it is like $2.00 a bag at Lowes or HD. Also, if it gets in the lawn and the mowers hit it, it doesn't fly and break your windows....
Ed

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Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 2343189)

Like several other things I can think of, pulling by hand is still the best method.:shrug:

You are my hero.