What do you use to kill weeds?

[Mrs. Luther073082]

What have you used that you were satisfied with and what products would you NOT recommend?

 

[anakonda]

Hello
I would recommend using Vinegar to kill weeds.

 

[explodingboy]

I just use my bare hands (with gloves depending on the weed, also a trowel if the roots are being awkward)

 

[Qyöt27]

Wooden planks. Couple of weeks, weeds dead. And Round-Up. I've gotten to resorting to measures like that because nothing can really help our yard look better at this point, and this definitely doesn't/can't make it look worse.

Another suggestion I've seen was to use cinder blocks and wet newspaper...the existing ones die from not getting any light (which is what the planks do, but the cinder blocks/newspaper allows more precise control), and the wet newspaper prompts the seeds to grow just enough to die when they pop out of the soil, as well as helping with decomp. Don't know how well this works, though.

 

[Colin]

I find Round-Up is very effective .
My garden is plagued with the horse-tail weed .

 

[Mrs. Luther073082]

That's interesting about the wooden planks. At this point we would need to cover the whole yard in wood, LOL.

 

[Qyöt27]

That was the problem here, too...but even the weeds were brown and pretty much dead from the freezes/prolonged cold this past winter and the hot, dry conditions we've been getting a lot during Spring and Summer these last few years. I just mowed over them with the bag on (after spraying Round-Up on practically the whole yard) and the amount of green grass underneath it was pathetic. It looks like a bunch of randomly-scattered plugs amidst a whole lot of brown. The grass was mostly killed by the frost and heat, too. Hopefully the weed killer is strong enough that they won't actually grow back, but I'm not counting on it with the kind of situation the yard is in.

It's really just three or four planks, each about 4 feet by 5 feet (or 3 feet by 5), and it's not really necessary for them to be wooden, or even be planks - they just have to be some kind of covering that prevents light from getting in; a tarp would do just as well, but you might have to worry about it dry-rotting. I just position them over some of the worst spots and let them sit there for a couple weeks before moving them to another spot. It'll kill everything underneath it, grass and weeds alike (and said weeds/grass will additionally start to decompose, making it start to look more like a barren spot of soil than just brown plant material). To continue this on the whole yard will take quite a while. To get the grass back, the solution would be to use grass seed or sod (although with how long it might take to finish, the grass may start to come back on its own, hopefully without weeds).

 

[HeavyMetalDude]

I love hacking at tall weeds with a machete no chemicals needed and tons of fun!

As for small weeds I just rake em up and toss them over the hill. Needless to say I really don't like nasty chemicals.

 

[Ayersy]

I BURN THEM! Muahahah!

I have a..... thingy. It looks like a walking stick, with a gas canister under the handle. You flick a little switch on it and BWOOMF, flames come out the end, then you use it to burn the weeds to a crisp! It's quite fun, actually.

 

[kittysbecute]

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I just use my bare hands (with gloves depending on the weed, also a trowel if the roots are being awkward)

Where I live the ground is really hard though so often I have to use rakes and hoes to dig them up.

 

[seavessel44]

I am environmentally friendly and believe in no chemicals (I will not even use mosquito repellant cuz it has deet)
Soo..just do it like they did in colonial days...yank the weeds and pull em out