Weed killer?

[silkiechicken]

Ok, So I remember reading a post here somewhere with a way to kill weeds and that it would rid of vegetation for a few year or something on those spots. What was this mix again?

I want to kill off about 2000 sq feet of invasive thistle and random grasses that have come up over the past few years to a point where you can't see the rocks anymore under them. This is in our drive way.

Thanks for any advise!

 

[xrayman]

Round up will kill all the plants mix it a little stronger than the bottle suggest. That's what i use on our drive way.
2-4-D will kill the broad leaf plants and thisles and leave the grasses alone.

 

[kstaven]

1 cup of salt in a gallon of white vinegar and add 1/4 cup of dish soap.

that is another alternative to using round up.

 

[silkiechicken]

Hmm, I'll try the salt, vinegar and dish soap thing. Is that perminant? I want everything dead out there. Even all the grasses. The invasive weeds grow back so quickly that they have even let the founder types of tree seedlings startup again!

 

[kstaven]

It killed everything along the driveway for a year. Grass, weeds, brush etc.

 

[xrayman]

I'll have to try that heck of alot cheaper than roundup. Thanks for the info

 

[silkiechicken]

How heavy of a spray do you have to put on everything with that? Should I mix up a 5 gallon bucket of it?

 

[Judymae]

We used the vinegar and salt mix and I just thoroughly wetted the stuff I wanted dead. If you want to get rid of a weed that's surrounded by stuff you want to keep alive then use a dampened rag or sponge and wipe it on the weed. That way you don't accidently kill wanted plants.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I'm very interested in this. RoundUp is pretty darn expensive, but it sure does work... and fast.

So my expectations are set correctly, how long until I start seeing results with this method / mixture?

If I wasn't so busy I'd do a side by side test with daily photos.... that would be so cool:

Plant 1: Controle (no killer)
Plant 2: RoundUp
Plant 3: Home mix

 

[akyramoto]

I sprayed some plants last night with vinegar. didn't add any salt though. We'll see what happens.