Natural Elements 30% Vinegar | (4) 1 Gallon Pack | Home and Garden Vinegar

Don't want to use [opposite of square and down] on my lawn. It's a neurotoxin and bad for the environment. Trying to do my part, however little it might be. I have a xeriscape lawn, living in the desert. Don't have to mow, but the weeds are a problem. Hubby used to do it, now it's my job. Let it go too long and now it's worse by many-fold, as some of the roots go down several feet at this point. I read an article from a well known magazine that said you shouldn't use vinegar on weeds because it doesn't work very well. Mmmmm, depends. what strenght is being used? Vinegar comes in 5% (the most common strength), 6%, labeled cleaning vinegar, 20%, 30%, 45%, 75%, etc. And if you spray the weed with vinegar it may kill the tops, but depending on it's size and how much you use it might not get all the way down the roots. Right now I'm digging up the weeds/roots and then spraying this high potency vinegar to kill any root system that I may have missed (the bigger the root that I think might still be down there, the more I spray so it will go down farther). I also like to spray over the area I dug up for any roots that might have become loose in the soil (don't want them re-starting a new plant) or ungerminated seeds. Vinegar doesn't differenciate between weeds and the plants you want, so you need to be careful if you have a garden or a grass lawn. You could try a sprayer that allows you to pinpoint, but any overspray will damage/kill other living plants nearby (maybe use a pinpoint spray and spray slowly?), especially on a windy day - as I've seen on my lawn. Just digging up the roots helps quite a bit, but I don't intend to do this ever again (!!!), so that's why I am doing both. If you catch your weeds when they are young you won't have to go through what I have. This is a strong acid, so you might want to get some nitrile gloves to protect your hands. I used this vinegar to clean my toilet bowl (still had mineral deposits from before we moved in several years ago - the water here is very hard - and this really reduced the ring significantly; it will take at least one more treatment, meaning spraying and letting it sit for as long as possible before flushing) but didn't bother with gloves so took me about a week and a half to recondition my hands with lotion because they got so very dry. I also read that vinegar isn't good for concrete or cement, don't recall which. Dunno, so I'm trying to limit where I spray it. I did spray between the cracks in the driveway & walk since the weeds were becoming too big and prolific, but I need to find something that will not damage it long-term but is still friendly to the environment. I've read and heard that you can mix the vinegar with Dawn dishsoap and salt (don't recall the amounts), so the soap clings to the weed better and the salt dries it out. But while vinegar is only supposed to persist for 5 days (or so I read) salt is supposed to be damaging to the soil and I assume the soap isn't so good either, so I'm going with plain vinegar. The back yard is still a work in progress, but the front lawn, finished several weeks ago with only a few weeds that came up after the fact (probably missed under the stones or that germinated from a place I didn't spray, because I'm not spraying *everywhere*) looks really great. Neighbors appreciate. ;)

Good for weed killing formula

I use 30% vinegar to safely kill weeds. I fill spray bottles and keep weeds from taking over my garden, walkways, and driveway. Weeds shrivel up in less than a few hours after being sprayed. And best of all, spraying vinegar on weeds doesn't endangered people, pets or the environment.

Great product. I use this as a weed killer in my garden. My backyard is a habitat so I attract a variety of birds, small critters, deer, rabbits, butterflys, etc. so I don't want to use chemicals. I mix a gallon of this vinegar with 1 cup of salt and a squeeze of dish soap then gently mix. Put in a sprayer and cover weeds in the garden and walkways. Be careful not to spray flowers, bushes or grass because this will kill it. After a couple of hours, you can see the weeds dying. Works better than Roundup and safer for you and nature as well!

Hot day when sun is out and is not calling for rain. Add 1 cup epsom salt in pan of hot water (about 4 cups ) until liquid. I add little dawn to mine just to give it more power. I use a pump sprayer and it takes very little . Your weeds will be dead by eve or at least by the next day. I used some on my wood cook stove and it cleaned it with a light scrub sponge and elbow grease. This is my 2nd time to order this and love that it’s natural and strong. I’d never use round up or any poison around my house and gardens. 5 star but I live in mt. And want let me but u got pic. Thanks

Second time I bought this i love them love how clean our walls floor and everything got

I used wash clothes but getting more expensive. Other than that love to use it.

I buy this product frequently. Using this in my dishwasher and front-loading clothes washer prevents odors in both machines and keeps the insides clean. It takes very little vinegar at this strength and makes both dish and laundry detergents more effective.