Unit 2
Lavallette, New Jersey
Lavallette, New Jersey
Ocean Beach &
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Get rid of weeds naturally with vinegar, salt, dish detergent, and warm water. Much cheaper than commercial products, and safer too!
Get a bucket or a spray bottle (if you have a smaller area to cover)
Mix a solution of 1/2 vinegar (white or apple cider vinegar) and 1/2 warm water (as warm as you can stand it - boiling the solution works best, but be careful!)
Add 1 Cup of salt (rock salt works best) and 1 tbsp of dish detergent for every gallon of solution. Make sure salt is dissolved before adding to a sprayer.
Add solution to a sprayer, spray bottle, watering can, or whatever you want to use to get rid of the weeds.
Spread the solution generously over the weeds.
Pull up the dead weeds (with in 24 hours they will die) at their roots
Tips on Applying the Solution:
Listen to the local weather forecast, and find out when our local area will be experiencing a few continuous days of sunshine. At the beginning of this period, spray or paint the vinegar onto the weeds you wish to kill.
Why is a sunny period required? Two reasons:
1. You need to saturate the weeds' leaves with the solution, and rain would wash too much of the vinegar off the foliage. 2. The real damage to the sprayed weeds begins the next couple of days after the application, when the sun hits the leaves.
Some people who use this solution as a natural weed killer like to boil it, prior to application. Through such boiling, you may actually be able to gain a concentrate higher in acetic acid. It certainly can't hurt to boil the solution; in fact, many folks report success killing weeds by simply pouring scalding water on weeds! So the use of this boiled solution allows you to attack weeds on an additional front.
Save the unused solution and reheat whenever needed.
Commercial Weed Control Products
Spectracide Weed & Grass Killer
All of the above are available at Home Depot, Lowes, or your local hardware store.
When using the above products, please read the labels carefully. Be sure that any runoff will not harm a neighbor's garden or other plantings. Be mindful of pets in the area, as well as the general environment. OBYC strongly recommends trying the natural solution first, which is mentioned at the top of this page. If you use a commercial product with a noticeable odor, please notify the surrounding neighbors so that they are not alarmed by the smell.
Please be advised that OBYC does not endorse or recommend any of the following service providers. These companies were obtained from yellowpages.com, and are listed in alphabetical order. Please let us know if you are already using a different service provider, and forward the contact information to us for inclusion in this list. Be sure to verify that the service provider that you use has a state certificate for the product that they will be applying to your property.
Lawn Doctor of Toms River
1889 Route 9 Bldg 3, Unit 6
Toms River, NJ 08755
(732) 244-1212
Letson Weed Control
30 E Kingfisher Way
Lavallette, NJ 08735
(732) 830-7249
Total Turf
1580 Route 88
Brick, NJ
(732) 840-4095
