Since I have children and pets, I am reluctant to use weed killers and poisons to get rid of pesky plants. This is a problem since we have lots of poison ivy to get rid of and I really hate poison ivy! Something to do with getting severe cases of it each year, even though I try to be careful. I am hoping this is my year to escape the evil clutches of poison ivy.
Fortunately, I have discovered a homemade solution to my problem that I thought I would share with you, though (hopefully) you don't have poison ivy like we do. But if you have some other kinds of weeds, this should work for those too!
I whipped up my first batch today since I have found some new poison ivy plants popping up and they MUST DIE!!! I sprayed this solution on them this morning, and already some of them are starting to look a bit withered. Yay!
Weed Killer Recipe:
3 cups of vinegar
1/2 cup salt
1 TBS Dawn liquid dish soap
Place the vinegar and salt into a spray bottle and mix together. Then put the Dawn in and stir gently. Spray the leaves of the undesired plants thoroughly. Make sure you spray the plants during a dry period or the rain will wash off the spray (if it rains, just spray again). Wait a week and if the plants are still alive, give them another squirt. This works best on new, young plants. If you have well-established plants, they may come back again. Just spray them again until they give up and die.
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