Vinegar as a safe weed killer???
Jul 26, 2022 19:52:04 #
Vinegar for weed killing @20% acidity or greater works great. No need for salt or soap. Myself, I use 30% buy at Home Depot. Do not spray pollinator friendly plants such as milkweed it will kill it.
Jul 26, 2022 22:33:04 #
Hey Fly Please consider leaving the milkweed alone and even creating a patch just for Monarchs. Monarchs were just put on the Endandered Species Red List. Would we all be sad if Monarch Butterflies went extinct.
As a small landowner who struggles with Goldenrod, Buuckthorn and Reed Canary Grass I get the need to kill invasive things but Monarch Butterflies aren't one of them. I've created a quarter acre of short grass praire just for butterflies/pollinators!
Please create a butterfly/pollinator garden, and oh yeah the deer bed down in it, so . . . Venison!
As a small landowner who struggles with Goldenrod, Buuckthorn and Reed Canary Grass I get the need to kill invasive things but Monarch Butterflies aren't one of them. I've created a quarter acre of short grass praire just for butterflies/pollinators!
Please create a butterfly/pollinator garden, and oh yeah the deer bed down in it, so . . . Venison!
Jul 27, 2022 00:45:32 #
flyguy wrote:
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Yep use it on my gravel road and around my rock wall about every week or two if getting lot of rain, if dry weather one a month it cheaper than weed spray
Plus it safer to use 👍🏽👍🏽
Jul 27, 2022 00:56:49 #
charlykilo wrote:
You have talked this to death. But originally the question was about wildlife safe weed killer. Is the vinegar /salt /soap proven to be butterfly etc. safe?
Well it hasn’t hurt the butterfly around my area I got butterflies bushes and there working all around my garden and flowers 🌸👍🏽👍🏽
Jul 27, 2022 14:02:13 #
Mick H
Loc: Central Coast - CA
Have used "horticultural vinegar" successfully on most weeds here in California, but it is not sold here. I have ordered it online from a nursery in TX. Interesting we can't get it here, because it is considered a better environmental option than roundup or other chemicals.
Horticultural vinegar is more concentrated than the stuff for human consumption. I believe I used the 20% concentration, undiluted, and with nothing else added. Just put it in a handheld sprayer & apply. Be sure to wash out the sprayer well after, and wear gloves & eye protection.
As for impact on monarchs and any other insects,, it will burn them too. We have a milkweed patch for the monarchs & just pull the weeds from that area by hand.
Horticultural vinegar is more concentrated than the stuff for human consumption. I believe I used the 20% concentration, undiluted, and with nothing else added. Just put it in a handheld sprayer & apply. Be sure to wash out the sprayer well after, and wear gloves & eye protection.
As for impact on monarchs and any other insects,, it will burn them too. We have a milkweed patch for the monarchs & just pull the weeds from that area by hand.
Jul 27, 2022 22:01:18 #
I have Monarch butterfly’s by the dozen here. I didn’t know there was issue. I have been wanting to try the Vinegar solution myself.
Jul 27, 2022 22:07:55 #
charlykilo
Loc: Garden Valley Ca
Dakoda wrote:
I have Monarch butterfly’s by the dozen here. I didn’t know there was issue. I have been wanting to try the Vinegar solution myself.
I was understanding that critters that happened to touch / chewed on /land on wet / damp weed killers died.
Jul 28, 2022 02:44:57 #
Snakeman
Loc: Sanbernardino ca
Be careful about kind of sprayer you use the vinegar destroyed my sprayer after using only two times
Jul 28, 2022 07:51:43 #
Snakeman wrote:
Be careful about kind of sprayer you use the vinegar destroyed my sprayer after using only two times
Was it a metal or plastic sprayer?
Jul 28, 2022 09:44:35 #
Jul 29, 2022 07:42:53 #
HenryG
Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts
Snakeman wrote:
Be careful about kind of sprayer you use the vinegar destroyed my sprayer after using only two times
Always wash your sprayer out with plain water after using any thing but water in them it makes for good practice and prolongs the life of the sprayer 🇺🇸🎣😎👍
Jul 30, 2022 19:17:55 #
Snakeman
Loc: Sanbernardino ca
I did wash my sprayer after use but the seals in the sprayer got messed up had to take sprayer back and got refunded
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