How to Prevent Weeds with Natural, Non-Toxic Vinegar

Commercial weed killers and weed prevention sprays are full of toxic chemicals that are bad for the environment, your family and your animals. Here's how to prevent weeds naturally with a simple, non-toxic method.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• White distilled vinegar
• Spray bottle

1. Fill your spray bottle with white distilled vinegar. Regular household vinegar generally works fine; however, if you need a stronger weed prevention method, home and hardware stores carry a 10% dilution that will be even more effective. Vinegar is an inexpensive, eco-friendly way to prevent weeds in your yard or driveway.

2. Spray the white distilled vinegar directly on the weeds or on the area where you don't want weeds to grow. Be sure to saturate resistant weeds and to avoid spraying vegetation that you want to keep.

3. Allow the vinegar to work its magic, then enjoy your weed-free yard. It's that simple! Repeat as necessary to keep your yard, driveway or walkways weed-free without using toxic, chemical-laden commercial weed killers.

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful to only spray weeds and areas where you do not want vegetation to grow.

Resources

• ehow Going Green Guide

[GreenLeader]

on 1/26/2009 Excellent article

[ginafur]

on 1/26/2009 Vinegar is such a good thing to keep on hand. Thanks for sharing this. 5*

[eyeopening]

on 1/1/2009 Vinegar is so useful. Great job!

[mpodlesny]

on 12/31/2008 YES! we definitly need to get rid of all of these chemical weed killers.

[mommashopper]

on 12/30/2008 Yes, I have been looking for this article! I will be saving to my favorites and will use this spring! Thanks for a great article!