Works really well on paths, patios etc as a quick remover of unsightly weeds through the cracks. I found that after 2 or 3 sprays the weeds stayed away as the salt went down beneath the surface. Really cheap to make up too. Thanks
If you want to go even cheaper... for those of you who have a water softener system. Find the discharge for your water softener and collect the salt brine when your softener goes through the recharge cycle. Most of the time they just set these systems up to dump the brine right out on the ground anyway. Then just use that salty water, add the dish soap and your set.
The maximum saturation of salt to water is 3 parts water to 1 part salt. That way, you won't waste salt. I'm going to try this on some problem weed areas. I'm going to try with less soap; I don't think you need that much. The soap breaks the surface tension of water to allow it to be absorbed by the plant. It doesn't take much - about 4 oz per 5 gal of water.
@@alwayssearching1882 Research "Maximum amount of salt water can hold" It's about 1 part salt to 3 parts water. Varies a little with water temperature. Hoter water can hold a little more salt.
This works very well. Many people also add vinegar to the mix. But absolutely apply it when you are going to get some sun and it burn off everything you apply it to. It's cheap to mix and works.
For best and quicker results use white vinegar with a 50:50 mix with warm water to help the salt dissolve quicker, and again use dish soap as a surfactant.
great vid guys! ive done this with vinegar and salt and soap..but your recipe is even cheaper because youre using water as the liquid instead of vinegar(which like everything else is way more expensive now than it was just a couple of years ago.) thanks for the recipe!
Totally worked. I left my salt in bucket for a few days though. Stiring every couple hrs for about 3 days. Just to make higher salt content. It worked better cuz of humidity we have here in houston texas at night.
Over the years, I've spent a fortune on herbicides to kill the vegetation in my gravel parking area. The crap at Walmart is NOT concentrated, and is totally worthless. I experimented with a 40 lb bag of pellet salt ($5.00) by just scattering it on my gravel so that the rain would dissolve it, and the salt will go into the ground. The weeds drink the salt water, and die. This works better in Spring. But it barely works in late July.
I've done this for a long time as well same methodology and everything hand pump sprayer dish soap with salt everything. The two things that I always do is dissolve the salt into the water second I always put the soap in first. One time I added so much salt that the soap would not go into solution and it was floating on top and would not mix in, this I would do different. The other thing is salt is what kills the plant not the soap you only need a little bit of soap to get the salt to stick maybe a couple of tablespoons in the whole 5 gallon batch, after I spray the solution and it dries, you can see the salt crystals all over the plant so this method does work really well I can get six or seven quarts of salt in 5 gallons of water. But like I said always do the soap first. Just some things that I have learned.
@@sandramoreno4733 you're welcome Sandra just recently I actually right now before I go out into the yard to work I dipped my socks and my work pants up to the knees in the same solution that I keep in a 5 gallon bucket and dried it on the clothesline yesterday. We will see if I get any chiggers or bugs bother me but I doubt it. Another idea for you 😊
I’ve tried this with table salt, driveway salt, and epsom salt, with and without vinegar in water, and even vinegar alone. The grass/weeds sprang right back after a week. BUT I FOUND A WAY! In my sprayer I mixed in 2 gallons of water, a cup of table salt, and 4 ounces of RM43 from Tractor Supply. It worked GREAT! In fact, I got so excited to try the new ingredient that I left out the salt and it STILL worked so well! 😉
Nobody's Pure I’m not retarded, I know it’s a chemical herbicide. Unlike the salt, vinegar, soap home remedy, it works. Monsonto didn’t kill a single blade of grass or weed at my house, I did.
I do believe that the salt will sterilize the soil for quite some time and I would prefer to pour salt water on the ground so it will sink into the soil. GREAT IDEA for under a fence. I think, however, I would wash the wire off with fresh water so it would not corrode. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks very much. It removed the cooch grass that was growing on our concrete driveway in cracks. Was bad situation as the cooch was a lot..but the salt-soap killed it all 😮👍🖐
The correct method would be to redo you're fence with concrete mow strip. salt leeches across soil surfaces and will need to be done multiple times. A good temporary solution would be quick lime mixed with wood ashes. Ash when rained on will make a weak lye solution that will burn plant roots, but does rinse out of soils. Ergo forest fires make temporary dead zones that eventually grow back. Lime crusts over and also fixes acids temporarily
If I recall correctly, the Romans used to salt the ground of their enemies making it impossible to grow crops. Make sure you don't use this method on ground you might want to use in the future.
Depends how much you use. The Romans left the salt on the fields. I had a salt truck turn around by a 100 year oak tree. The knucklehead left the salt spreader on. He sat there for a moment. So I have this big pile of salt at the base of the tree. I had to shovel most of it away on the driveway. After snows and rains, most of the grass was even fine in the spring. Back to my point. Had I left the pile, it may have even killed the tree, but since it had a small dose, it didn't hurt it.
Man has always been so cruel to man! Rather than just fight soldier to soldier, they starved their families also. So much cruelty throughout history.. The Bible says, From whence come wars.. men want what they don't have, and go to war to take it. Sorry, that's a paraphrase. Didn't mean to go off topic here, but I'm looking upward a lot more these days, waiting for the time we can leave this world with all its cruelty.. And now, the cruelest of all.. Killing off our food supply in all forms to cause the global famine the Bible tells us about. Man will be killing man by the billions during the tribulation. But God is letting their cup of wickedness fill up to the full, and they will drink it to the dregs. God's wrath and justice, after His love and mercy is rejected and mocked. "When ye BEGIN to see all these things take place, then lift up your heads, your redemption draweth nigh!" Even the earth itself groans, waiting for the redemption.. The hard times won't last. And we will see Jesus face to face! Love, Jan 📖🥀🕊
I spayed last summer except I added white vinegar Killing poison Ivy and weeds the Ivy died but the other weeds came back. Time to spray again Don’t forget to rinse sprayer afterwards I destroyed two sprayers by not rinsing.
So about 3 months ago I had a water softener go bad and had to drain it, so I used my dry Vac to get out what water was left in it then dumped the dry vac out on a the side of the house and within 24 hours the grass was dead. Today I'm going to use the very process you have here to kill some weeds that are seeping through the rocks I've put down. I'll keep you posted on the results
I had a slug infestation problem and used vinegar and water 1to1 on them. did the job but found out the next day that it also killed any greenery that got caught in the spray, so now I'm happily using it on my weeds as well. No Monsanto Roundup required.
well I've got brown earth in dozens of spots all over my lawn and my wife is real pissed off. So that's a couple of weeks now. Even if i keep knocking them back every few weeks I'd be happy with that. But I will try the salt solution too, thanks.
I accidentally splashed saltwater on my lawn when moving my saltwater reef aquarium. All grass and weeds in the spill zone were dead for 2 years. Now I'm very careful when doing water changes and moving. Btw, The water was at 1.026 salinity.
It works very well. I leave it overnight and don't use that last couple inches in the bucket. I add more salt and soap and get ready for the next spray. Excellent idea. Thanks..!
i used this last year and it is perfect kills long grass and weeds and they dint come back all summer but this summer they are back so i dont think it harms the soil to much but i wouldnt risk it if your growing fruit or veg
Great Video, I use gasoline in a Windex spray bottle for small jobs ($2.50/gallon). I know, it is not the safest, but only carry about 10 oz's at a time. Thanks!
Great idea for places where you can maw . However, sodium from the salt is no good for the soil, after few years soil become sticky. Better replace it with potassium chloride or ammonium nitrate. The solution is more powerful against stubborn weeds by adding a bit of vinegar or another acid, just to make the solution slightly acidic
I found this out by accident when i vacumned out my brine tank and dumped the water in the grass...The grass was fried for 5 months...I almost spent 100 bucks in weed killer 10 minutes ago..Glad I remembered and googled this. I guess its a thing! Cheers Bud!!
Wow im impressed ! Know what I'm doing in driveway this weekend!? Now if only the rest of world can stop using these damn toxic weed killers n pesticides!
The lawsuits have already begun, but use wont stop until it's outlawed...and good luck getting any toxic chemical outlawed in the US. The only other country that allows such massive toxicity is China.
I find Cat Piss the most effective and it's cheap, but you need a lot of cats and my cat is fed up being rung out when I'm on a weedkilling mission! (I haven't actually got a cat so I use my neighbours who fortunately has a good SOH! The cat that is, not the neighbour)!
I do the same thing except I use white vinegar instead of water. dissolves the salt right away and helps dry out the plant. I do this around my fence a couple times a summer so I don't have to eat up so much string with a weed eater
Good video. I would suggest using less soap. It's acting as a surfactant, and you can easily get the same results using only an ounce or 2 of dish soap per gallon of water.
any salt with hot water will work on sunny day, but the best I find and still use is boilding water, only problem with that is that if I splash any on something I dont want to kill, its dead, so Cardboard for close to garden and a spectil pourer for spot killing weeds in around flowers, and at edges just pour it on and dead as door nail for about 3 years, do it around tress, border edges etc. doesnt cost a thing with solar power. ....Im lazy, let the kettle boile the water, and all I have to do is pour carefully.
Thanks for the info! I'm kind of new to lawn care and weed control and this video really gave me insight to make the right decision for my lawn. a dog that runs around in my backyard. I will use organic in my backyard and I'll use Roundup in the front and side yard
PLEASE, NEVER EVER use roundup any where at any time!!! It's killing necessary insects, namely pollinators such as honey bee's, bumble bee's and butterfly''s!!! I have a yard full of clover but haven't seen a honey bee in about 5 years or a bumble bee in about 3 years. I have some butterfly's but their population is dwindling. It also runs off with the rain into the creeks, streams, rivers, lakes and ocean affecting aquatic life as well which in turn affects human life. We have known for years now that roundup causes cancer and there has been billions paid out in lawsuits to the victims of cancers caused by that poison and that's exactly what it is, POISON!!! Yet they still sell that sh!t. IMO anyone that uses roundup is a ridge running IDIOT that hasn't got a damn bit of common sense!!! IF you care even just a little bit about your and everybody else's future you'll stop and NEVER use that poison again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You NEVER mix it stronger than the label says. If it says 2 2/3 oz / gal, that's what it means, not 3. Don't you think that the chemical companies would rather you mix it strong, to use more, and BUY more, if it worked BETTER by doing that? Here's why you use WHAT THE LABEL CALLS FOR: Glyphosate (Roundup & others) is a SYSTEMIC BROADLEAF herbicide, meaning it isn't going to work on vines, woody stuff, etc., and it does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to kill Broadleaf plants unless it's sprayed ON, I said ON, the foliage, NOT THE SOIL! It is a SYSTEMIC HERBICIDE, meaning it gets absorbed into the plant SYSTEM, and theoretically and ideally, kills the plant TO THE ROOTS, FROM INSIDE the plant. By mixing it STRONGER, you're killing the UPPER part of the plant before it has a chance to LIVE LONG ENOUGH to systemically get to the roots and kill them. That's why the weeds return so quickly, the roots are still alive. You want the weed to die SLOWLY, giving the plant system time to circulate it TO the roots. It can't do that if you burn the heck out of the foliage too soon. Glyphosate has NO SOIL ACTIVITY, when it comes to killing Broadleaf weeds, meaning any chemical you spray on the ground, is literally wasted. Mix it like the label says. It says that for a REASON. The reason I just explained. I'm a N.C. Licensed Herbicide / Pesticide Applicator, for what it's worth. Peace.
True story - I bought a $11 gallon of Spectricide "vegetation killer" from our Menards the other day and this crap wouldn't kill a mouse if it drank the whole damn gallon!! I sprayed several patches of weeds around my house 2 days ago and they look like someone hit them with Miracle-Gro!!!! It's the last time I'll buy a Spectricide product.
+Jan Anderson garlon3a is a strong herbicide that can be mixed with a oil to make a basal spray or apply with a paint brush....I will kill damn near any problem plant.
The important thing realize about the dish soap or detergent is that it breaks down oils and grease. You will notice this when washing dishes or when washing hands after doing machinery repairs. Plants have a natural wax coating which the detergent will break down and then the salt or other plant killer goes to work .
I've been using vinegar on my little ant problem but I've seen people using salt washing up liquid and vinegar on weeds . It's good to experiment this way rather than use dangerous chemicals 👍
tried making slime with glue salt and soap. it didn't work so I dumped it out in my yard and we still have a bare spot there. I know this works from experience
@Jonny Sandtrap Walmart and it's called Eliminator white bottle purple. Remember it's a weed spray not a sterilizer so it must come in contact with the weed
Just be careful where that stuff lands. The salt will kill everything it stays on and nothing will grow in that spot again (if there is enough salt). This is a very good, low cost weed killing solution. Good video
It stopped the blue berry Bush from growing for about a month or so. The roots must be dug out or the blue berry Bush will come back. It stops the BBB dead for months.
I have enlarged prostate. I have to pee very often, without warning. So I just hit the weeds closest to me. They die instantly, and never return. My neighbors understand...
hot extremely salty water is always the kill for the plants, dish soap is not that much of a killer. saying all this from my own experience as a garden worker. but never put all this on the soil you plan to plant useful stuff. only on the areas where you want it to be forever unproductive. or you can simply pour toxic waste like some from those barrels with weird signs that gov's throw all the time in the sea or ocean. :D
at 2.45 a gallon you can use regular white vinegar to do the same thing... just fill your sprayer and spray on a sunny day and get the same results. it will kill anything you spray it on
Nice! I like to eat my weeds in salads. I stopped eating them because they grew faster that I could make salads and I started using "goonsanto" poisons. This is good for both me and the plants. Unlike our friend hairlesheep I don't want them to died forever, especially the bitter ones. They make delicious dishes. Thank you for sharing this weed control formula
I'm mixing a gallon of white vinegar, about a quarter cup of dish soap, and about half cup of table salt. The vinegar seems to knock down the weed above ground with the help of the soap holding it on. The salt is a lot less concentrated than this vid shows so may not last too long and spread out. But I'm expecting the salt to filter down and kill the roots. We also have a mosquito problem, so I'm adding some lemon grass oil to the mix. I'll know in a couple weeks if any difference was made. This is just a residential driveway, not to the scale of a farm.
Worked fine for me. I don't have a huge area, like acres. Just a long driveway and a few hundred square feet of mini jungle. I tried just vinegar and soap at first, and it did OK on the grass like stuff. But some green came back after a few weeks. Added some table salt and tried again on the "jungle." It took a couple days but the weeds were not happy. They yellowed and shrank, but still hanging on as of this message. My next spraying will have as much table salt as the full volume of vinegar can dissolve. I try to apply it after a few dry days so my "liquid" will be a higher percentage of the moisture the plants use. And check weather so it wont get rained on for a couple days. And I am adding the Cutter Natural lemon grass liquid from their white spray bottle. It seems to meet my needs. Cutter also has a similar Backyard bug control (gray bottle) which seems to be better in some ways, but not for our dog.
@mrscms831; after reading through some of the comments I found one that said eventually salt makes the soil mushy & murky. Nothing will grow there. Ancient Romans spread salt on the enemies.fields to cut their food supply. As far as bleeding, I suggest allowing an area of at least 1 ft. or more away from the plants you want to protect. I also suggest putting a temporary cardboard shield around the good plants to avoid overspray.
We use high strength pickling vinegar, 9% for less than $3 per gallon. Goes a lot farther and works better if you want to replant like killing weeds in a garden. Just wash down the acidity some.
Alternatively you can do it like in my country, we round up the local hippies, put them in the trunk and unload them next to the place were the weed is. Then faster than you know it all the weed is gone and I mean literally light speed only clouds of smoke and a sweet odor remain in the air. That as cheap as it gets.
Salt sucks out all the moisture in plants. Soap makes the spray stick to the weeds. Can also use vinegar straight with soap and salt. Microwave it to boil. This is another tip.
roundup is an absorbable salt....most plants are not salt tolerant, so salt and soap is the best alternative...pool, water softner salts are just pure un iodized salt....finer the easier fo disolve...most plants wont survive salt in the soil...Vinegar is a mild acid, and will only change the ph until it washes away....some plants die from the extreme acidic change of vinegar but it takes a lot of vinegar $$$ not diluted...it sure doesnt take much roundup in a fine mist to do the job....i like burning myself 😁😁😁, or just plain tilling...for any garden..
I broad cast 200 lbs of granulated salt from Tractor Supply to an area about 20 feet by 20 feet. It looked like it snowed. I don't know what super weeds I have, but it only made a few brown spots here and there, and this year it doesn't even look like I used anything.
Yep.... pretty cheap, until it rusts out the bottom 12 inches of that wire (and the posts, if you have any metal posts). Any applications of this mixture will damage any metal that it touches, and more applications will accelerate that damage. Furthermore, if your soil is not very sandy, then it will take a very long time for the salt to fade from the soil profile. I can appreciate the effort to give out handy advice here, but I would not recommend this solution unless you account for the adverse side effects to using salt.
in reading other comments I see that people are more worried about the soap which is actually good for the soil. It helps to soften it and I spray it down the rows of my garden. If you spray it directly on the plants and not wash it off with a sprinkler it can hurt them.
Yes, salt kills vegetation. This is apparent to those that live in states that salt their roads in the winter. Come spring one can see the "dead zone" on both sides of he road. Salt also destroys your cars.
The part of roundup that hurts animals most is the surfactant (soap) portion. You've got more soap in yours that roundup does. Additionally Salt has a lower LD50 than Glyphosate and your solution has more of it. On top of that you are spraying way heavier than you would spray roundup. So at every single level you are looking at more toxicity from your concoction. After that you have to consider long term impact. Roundup bidegrades in the soil, salt does not. Some will stick around in your local soil, some will wash along, but it doesn't break down ever. If you use roundup in your vegetable garden you can use it for centuries with no ill effects, if you used your concoction in the garden you might ruin your garden for centuries after just a few years, if you were in a dry environment.
The Romans hated the Carthaginians so much that when they won the final battle, they forced them to sow their lands with salt. No crops could grow. A different type of holocaust.
softsoap is a hand soap. if you want dish soap, which is very acidic, use Dawn. The salt is alkaline, so they would neutralize each other. My ex found out the hard way that salt will kill a huge pecan tree when he exhausted the salt water from the water purifier around the tree.
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👍 I just want to tell you that your saturated water with salt and some dish soap to make it stick to the black berry bushes was a complete success! I added some bleach with mine too. It took about a week or two to just kill every Bush in my taken over big yard. I can't thank you enough for your sharing this information. Have a great year my friend. One month later -- great on anything above the ground: the "ROOTS" KEEP COMING UP! My friend am I doing something wrong? Is there anyway to kill the "ROOTS?"
Place the water bucket on a concrete/asphalt pad.....pad gets warm, and warms the water. Warm water will dissolve more salt......and the dissolved salt is the killer...........
I’m getting ready to get some bushes chopped off close to the base. If I spray these on the stumps will this prevent from the bushes to grow back? Thanks!
Not all salt is the same though. The typical traditional table salt is so highly refined that all the healthy minerals are stripped from it. Ancient salt beds are going to have less of modern chemicals in it as well.
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Works really well on paths, patios etc as a quick remover of unsightly weeds through the cracks. I found that after 2 or 3 sprays the weeds stayed away as the salt went down beneath the surface. Really cheap to make up too. Thanks
If you want to go even cheaper... for those of you who have a water softener system. Find the discharge for your water softener and collect the salt brine when your softener goes through the recharge cycle. Most of the time they just set these systems up to dump the brine right out on the ground anyway. Then just use that salty water, add the dish soap and your set.
He literally says that in the video
The maximum saturation of salt to water is 3 parts water to 1 part salt. That way, you won't waste salt. I'm going to try this on some problem weed areas. I'm going to try with less soap; I don't think you need that much. The soap breaks the surface tension of water to allow it to be absorbed by the plant. It doesn't take much - about 4 oz per 5 gal of water.
This !
Thank you so much.
So where do you come up with 3:1?
@@alwayssearching1882 Research
"Maximum amount of salt water can hold" It's about 1 part salt to 3 parts water. Varies a little with water temperature. Hoter water can hold a little more salt.
This works very well. Many people also add vinegar to the mix. But absolutely apply it when you are going to get some sun and it burn off everything you apply it to. It's cheap to mix and works.
For best and quicker results use white vinegar with a 50:50 mix with warm water to help the salt dissolve quicker, and again use dish soap as a surfactant.
great vid guys! ive done this with vinegar and salt and soap..but your recipe is even cheaper because youre using water as the liquid instead of vinegar(which like everything else is way more expensive now than it was just a couple of years ago.) thanks for the recipe!
Totally worked. I left my salt in bucket for a few days though. Stiring every couple hrs for about 3 days. Just to make higher salt content. It worked better cuz of humidity we have here in houston texas at night.
How much salt did you use
Over the years, I've spent a fortune on herbicides to kill the vegetation in my gravel parking area. The crap at Walmart is NOT concentrated, and is totally worthless. I experimented with a 40 lb bag of pellet salt ($5.00) by just scattering it on my gravel so that the rain would dissolve it, and the salt will go into the ground. The weeds drink the salt water, and die. This works better in Spring. But it barely works in late July.
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION TO PROBLEMATIC GROWTH IN MY YARD FOR YEARS. SO GLAD YOU SHARED THIS INFORMATION!
I've done this for a long time as well same methodology and everything hand pump sprayer dish soap with salt everything. The two things that I always do is dissolve the salt into the water second I always put the soap in first. One time I added so much salt that the soap would not go into solution and it was floating on top and would not mix in, this I would do different. The other thing is salt is what kills the plant not the soap you only need a little bit of soap to get the salt to stick maybe a couple of tablespoons in the whole 5 gallon batch, after I spray the solution and it dries, you can see the salt crystals all over the plant so this method does work really well I can get six or seven quarts of salt in 5 gallons of water. But like I said always do the soap first. Just some things that I have learned.
thanks for that helpful idea
@@sandramoreno4733 you're welcome Sandra just recently I actually right now before I go out into the yard to work I dipped my socks and my work pants up to the knees in the same solution that I keep in a 5 gallon bucket and dried it on the clothesline yesterday. We will see if I get any chiggers or bugs bother me but I doubt it. Another idea for you 😊
I’ve tried this with table salt, driveway salt, and epsom salt, with and without vinegar in water, and even vinegar alone. The grass/weeds sprang right back after a week. BUT I FOUND A WAY! In my sprayer I mixed in 2 gallons of water, a cup of table salt, and 4 ounces of RM43 from Tractor Supply. It worked GREAT! In fact, I got so excited to try the new ingredient that I left out the salt and it STILL worked so well!
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That's because it's 44% Glyphosate. Did you not know that before you used it? Monsanto killing the planet 1 blade at a time.
Nobody's Pure I’m not retarded, I know it’s a chemical herbicide. Unlike the salt, vinegar, soap home remedy, it works. Monsonto didn’t kill a single blade of grass or weed at my house, I did.
I’m totally gonna try this, my rock driveway is covered in weeds and grass! Thanks for the tip!
Yea let us know how that works in the long run for ya
I do believe that the salt will sterilize the soil for quite some time and I would prefer to pour salt water on the ground so it will sink into the soil. GREAT IDEA for under a fence. I think, however, I would wash the wire off with fresh water so it would not corrode. Thanks for the tip.
I try it and it works better then any weed killer i had been used it is cheap easy powerful .Thank you .
Baboba A Really, does it really kill weeds?
But you used soft soap hand soap? Or dish soap?
Agent orange works the best and fastest, it will kill you but the weeds will be gone for years
@@TheBernadette68 He said dish soap in the hand soap bottle for measurement.
Thanks very much. It removed the cooch grass that was growing on our concrete driveway in cracks. Was bad situation as the cooch was a lot..but the salt-soap killed it all 😮👍🖐
How long did the weeds stay off
If you wanted to add more salt to the water, heat the water while making the solution. It'll hold a lot more salt.
true matt. but as soon as it cools the salt will precipitate out.
Matt D can you use ocean water?
I bet you can. Anytime I have a tropical blow off the ocean it kills most of the plants and grass.
ocean water will work eventually but the salt content is not as high as the homemade brine.
Matt D Where do I get salt water from and is there a specific brand?
The correct method would be to redo you're fence with concrete mow strip. salt leeches across soil surfaces and will need to be done multiple times. A good temporary solution would be quick lime mixed with wood ashes. Ash when rained on will make a weak lye solution that will burn plant roots, but does rinse out of soils. Ergo forest fires make temporary dead zones that eventually grow back. Lime crusts over and also fixes acids temporarily
If I recall correctly, the Romans used to salt the ground of their enemies making it impossible to grow crops. Make sure you don't use this method on ground you might want to use in the future.
Depends how much you use. The Romans left the salt on the fields. I had a salt truck turn around by a 100 year oak tree. The knucklehead left the salt spreader on. He sat there for a moment. So I have this big pile of salt at the base of the tree. I had to shovel most of it away on the driveway. After snows and rains, most of the grass was even fine in the spring. Back to my point. Had I left the pile, it may have even killed the tree, but since it had a small dose, it didn't hurt it.
Changing the PH of the soil.
Man has always been so cruel to man! Rather than just fight soldier to soldier, they starved their families also. So much cruelty throughout history.. The Bible says, From whence come wars.. men want what they don't have, and go to war to take it. Sorry, that's a paraphrase. Didn't mean to go off topic here, but I'm looking upward a lot more these days, waiting for the time we can leave this world with all its cruelty.. And now, the cruelest of all.. Killing off our food supply in all forms to cause the global famine the Bible tells us about. Man will be killing man by the billions during the tribulation. But God is letting their cup of wickedness fill up to the full, and they will drink it to the dregs. God's wrath and justice, after His love and mercy is rejected and mocked.
"When ye BEGIN to see all these things take place, then lift up your heads, your redemption draweth nigh!" Even the earth itself groans, waiting for the redemption..
The hard times won't last. And we will see Jesus face to face!
Love, Jan 📖🥀🕊
Hope so! In my case I'm spraying weeds in my gravel drive,
I spayed last summer except I added white vinegar
Killing poison Ivy and weeds the Ivy died but the other weeds came back.
Time to spray again
Don’t forget to rinse sprayer afterwards I destroyed two sprayers by not rinsing.
So about 3 months ago I had a water softener go bad and had to drain it, so I used my dry Vac to get out what water was left in it then dumped the dry vac out on a the side of the house and within 24 hours the grass was dead. Today I'm going to use the very process you have here to kill some weeds that are seeping through the rocks I've put down. I'll keep you posted on the results
I had a slug infestation problem and used vinegar and water 1to1 on them. did the job but found out the next day that it also killed any greenery that got caught in the spray, so now I'm happily using it on my weeds as well. No Monsanto Roundup required.
well I've got brown earth in dozens of spots all over my lawn and my wife is real pissed off. So that's a couple of weeks now. Even if i keep knocking them back every few weeks I'd be happy with that. But I will try the salt solution too, thanks.
Muscovy ducks can also help. And they provide meat too.
its best to get a bunch of asians to go out at 3 am and stab all the little bar stewards(slugs that is)
thats what our Prince Charles does
roontunes, please do not use salt or vinegar on your lawn if you intend to have a beautiful green lawn.
@Duke Of Prunes lol wouldn't that also get the slugs really drunk😂😆??
Salt water works, boiling water poured directly onto weeds does the trick too if it’s in a smallish area (like around raises garden beds)
I accidentally splashed saltwater on my lawn when moving my saltwater reef aquarium. All grass and weeds in the spill zone were dead for 2 years. Now I'm very careful when doing water changes and moving.
Btw, The water was at 1.026 salinity.
It works very well. I leave it overnight and don't use that last couple inches in the bucket. I add more salt and soap and get ready for the next spray. Excellent idea. Thanks..!
I use vinegar, Epsom salts, dish soap and water. Works great and dissolves easy to use in sprayer.
Epsom salts are a good fertilizer.
i used this last year and it is perfect kills long grass and weeds and they dint come back all summer but this summer they are back so i dont think it harms the soil to much but i wouldnt risk it if your growing fruit or veg
Annual weeds grow from seeds and seeds don't get killed :-(.
Homemade solution 101 hot water salt vinegar dish soap done. We have used this method for years when Roundup won't work we back up and use this
how in what proportion of hot water/vinegar/salt/dish soap? thanks
@@ashleypertubrio7968 i use a half a big bottle of salt and half a gallon of vinegar and a generous amount of soap to a 3 gallon pump up sprayer
Great Video, I use gasoline in a Windex spray bottle for small jobs ($2.50/gallon). I know, it is not the safest, but only carry about 10 oz's at a time. Thanks!
Great idea for places where you can maw . However, sodium from the salt is no good for the soil, after few years soil become sticky. Better replace it with potassium chloride or ammonium nitrate.
The solution is more powerful against stubborn weeds by adding a bit of vinegar or another acid, just to make the solution slightly acidic
I wanted to kill my weeds by my vegetable garden. They are so stubborn but I am afraid of damaging my soil. Any tips?
Hes only using it along the fence where mowing not possible. Dosent want anything to grow there ..ever😮
I found this out by accident when i vacumned out my brine tank and dumped the water in the grass...The grass was fried for 5 months...I almost spent 100 bucks in weed killer 10 minutes ago..Glad I remembered and googled this. I guess its a thing! Cheers Bud!!
Also the least toxic. And when you want to use that dirt later for plants, just add calcium and fertilizer to reverse the process....
Plan to use this soon. Tired of growth under fence line. Thank you for showing this.
Wow im impressed ! Know what I'm doing in driveway this weekend!? Now if only the rest of world can stop using these damn toxic weed killers n pesticides!
The lawsuits have already begun, but use wont stop until it's outlawed...and good luck getting any toxic chemical outlawed in the US. The only other country that allows such massive toxicity is China.
This looks like serious work. In Oz we just spark our lawns up with a few gallons of gas and torch it. Next winter rains and it's 100% again
I find Cat Piss the most effective and it's cheap, but you need a lot of cats and my cat is fed up being rung out when I'm on a weedkilling mission! (I haven't actually got a cat so I use my neighbours who fortunately has a good SOH! The cat that is, not the neighbour)!
Omg people suck if they pass up your like button friggin hilarious
Terry TT 😂😂😂
If not done Correctly:: a Significant CATastrophy will most likely be your next Victim!!!!
LMAO you're funny. Are you a psychiatrist too? 'Cause a good laugh at the start of my day does wonders. Thanks for that :D
That's sooo funny !!🥃🍷🍸🍺
What the crap. It killed everything in our old flower beds that we are filling with gravel. You rock!! Only spent 10 bucks and I made a ton of it
Haha, thanks!
ETprepper seriously though. Would have probably cost 100 or so and did the same thing.
I’m concerned that repeated applications may give you salinity issues, spreading to your nearby crop via water movement above and within your soil.
I do the same thing except I use white vinegar instead of water. dissolves the salt right away and helps dry out the plant. I do this around my fence a couple times a summer so I don't have to eat up so much string with a weed eater
We used vinegar as an additive. Worked really fast. Results in less than an hour into our vid. Killed the roots. Check it out.
Your method looks good, and your farm even better.
Wow!!! This is going to save me a LOT of money on weed killer IF it actually works.
Good video. I would suggest using less soap. It's acting as a surfactant, and you can easily get the same results using only an ounce or 2 of dish soap per gallon of water.
Man! Is this Real,Thanks I'm on my way to the Doller store right Now,thanks again!
any salt with hot water will work on sunny day, but the best I find and still use is boilding water, only problem with that is that if I splash any on something I dont want to kill, its dead, so Cardboard for close to garden and a spectil pourer for spot killing weeds in around flowers, and at edges just pour it on and dead as door nail for about 3 years, do it around tress, border edges etc. doesnt cost a thing with solar power. ....Im lazy, let the kettle boile the water, and all I have to do is pour carefully.
Thanks for the info! I'm kind of new to lawn care and weed control and this video really gave me insight to make the right decision for my lawn. a dog that runs around in my backyard. I will use organic in my backyard and I'll use Roundup in the front and side yard
PLEASE, NEVER EVER use roundup any where at any time!!! It's killing necessary insects, namely pollinators such as honey bee's, bumble bee's and butterfly''s!!! I have a yard full of clover but haven't seen a honey bee in about 5 years or a bumble bee in about 3 years. I have some butterfly's but their population is dwindling. It also runs off with the rain into the creeks, streams, rivers, lakes and ocean affecting aquatic life as well which in turn affects human life. We have known for years now that roundup causes cancer and there has been billions paid out in lawsuits to the victims of cancers caused by that poison and that's exactly what it is, POISON!!! Yet they still sell that sh!t. IMO anyone that uses roundup is a ridge running IDIOT that hasn't got a damn bit of common sense!!! IF you care even just a little bit about your and everybody else's future you'll stop and NEVER use that poison again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nice I been Buying roundup and I mix it strong and it takes one week to start KILLING the Dam weeds. I will try this Thanks a lot
Make sure you saturate soil.
You NEVER mix it stronger than the label says. If it says 2 2/3 oz / gal, that's what it means, not 3. Don't you think that the chemical companies would rather you mix it strong, to use more, and BUY more, if it worked BETTER by doing that? Here's why you use WHAT THE LABEL CALLS FOR: Glyphosate (Roundup & others) is a SYSTEMIC BROADLEAF herbicide, meaning it isn't going to work on vines, woody stuff, etc., and it does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to kill Broadleaf plants unless it's sprayed ON, I said ON, the foliage, NOT THE SOIL! It is a SYSTEMIC HERBICIDE, meaning it gets absorbed into the plant SYSTEM, and theoretically and ideally, kills the plant TO THE ROOTS, FROM INSIDE the plant. By mixing it STRONGER, you're killing the UPPER part of the plant before it has a chance to LIVE LONG ENOUGH to systemically get to the roots and kill them. That's why the weeds return so quickly, the roots are still alive. You want the weed to die SLOWLY, giving the plant system time to circulate it TO the roots. It can't do that if you burn the heck out of the foliage too soon. Glyphosate has NO SOIL ACTIVITY, when it comes to killing Broadleaf weeds, meaning any chemical you spray on the ground, is literally wasted. Mix it like the label says. It says that for a REASON. The reason I just explained. I'm a N.C. Licensed Herbicide / Pesticide Applicator, for what it's worth. Peace.
True story - I bought a $11 gallon of Spectricide "vegetation killer" from our Menards the other day and this crap wouldn't kill a mouse if it drank the whole damn gallon!! I sprayed several patches of weeds around my house 2 days ago and they look like someone hit them with Miracle-Gro!!!! It's the last time I'll buy a Spectricide product.
+rod builder
TVC at $70 a bottle is rubbish.
Round Up works but not on Pepper Trees in Florida.
+Graham Sherrington garlon3a in vegetable oil..wipes em out
okay will try this thx
+rusty bird what does "garlon3a in vegetable oil mean???"
+Jan Anderson garlon3a is a strong herbicide that can be mixed with a oil to make a basal spray or apply with a paint brush....I will kill damn near any problem plant.
buy yourself a bag of lime add to water same consistancy it changes the ground from acidic were weeds wont grow to start with, briliant stuff
The important thing realize about the dish soap or detergent is that it breaks down oils and grease. You will notice this when washing dishes or when washing hands after doing machinery repairs. Plants have a natural wax coating which the detergent will break down and then the salt or other plant killer goes to work .
vinegar helps grease dissipate also...
I like your method I have round up and it takes and it takes 3 days before you see results thanks for your way I'll try it
I've been using vinegar on my little ant problem but I've seen people using salt washing up liquid and vinegar on weeds . It's good to experiment this way rather than use dangerous chemicals 👍
tried making slime with glue salt and soap. it didn't work so I dumped it out in my yard and we still have a bare spot there. I know this works from experience
1 gallon white vinegar
1 cup table salt
Teaspoon of dish soap
Let sit over night, stir well. Pour into sprayer.😁
It is cheaper to buy concentrate 20 gallon mix only $13
About how much do you think your vinegar mixture is, and lets figure out how much the salt mixture is? So I know which to do. TY
@Jonny Sandtrap Walmart and it's called Eliminator white bottle purple. Remember it's a weed spray not a sterilizer so it must come in contact with the weed
White vinegar. Use it all the time with a two gallon sprayer. Use it straight. Cheap at the store by the gallon.
Just be careful where that stuff lands. The salt will kill everything it stays on and nothing will grow in that spot again (if there is enough salt). This is a very good, low cost weed killing solution. Good video
It stopped the blue berry Bush from growing for about a month or so. The roots must be dug out or the blue berry Bush will come back. It stops the BBB dead for months.
Darkman Walker Where do I buy that type of salt and is there a specific brand??
WOW! Great video, and we will be making some of this weed killer and using it on our fence rolls
I have enlarged prostate. I have to pee very often, without warning. So I just hit the weeds closest to me. They die instantly, and never return. My neighbors understand...
😂😂😂 my hubby does the same. LoL
Eww🤮🤢
Yes, you guys are the best!!!!!!! No bugs.
hot extremely salty water is always the kill for the plants, dish soap is not that much of a killer. saying all this from my own experience as a garden worker. but never put all this on the soil you plan to plant useful stuff. only on the areas where you want it to be forever unproductive. or you can simply pour toxic waste like some from those barrels with weird signs that gov's throw all the time in the sea or ocean. :D
Or you could simply crush egg shells and sprinkle around.
at 2.45 a gallon you can use regular white vinegar to do the same thing... just fill your sprayer and spray on a sunny day and get the same results. it will kill anything you spray it on
Nice! I like to eat my weeds in salads. I stopped eating them because they grew faster that I could make salads and I started using "goonsanto" poisons. This is good for both me and the plants. Unlike our friend hairlesheep I don't want them to died forever, especially the bitter ones. They make delicious dishes. Thank you for sharing this weed control formula
I'm mixing a gallon of white vinegar, about a quarter cup of dish soap, and about half cup of table salt. The vinegar seems to knock down the weed above ground with the help of the soap holding it on. The salt is a lot less concentrated than this vid shows so may not last too long and spread out. But I'm expecting the salt to filter down and kill the roots.
We also have a mosquito problem, so I'm adding some lemon grass oil to the mix.
I'll know in a couple weeks if any difference was made. This is just a residential driveway, not to the scale of a farm.
is table salt ok to use? same affects as the salt used in video?
Worked fine for me. I don't have a huge area, like acres. Just a long driveway and a few hundred square feet of mini jungle. I tried just vinegar and soap at first, and it did OK on the grass like stuff. But some green came back after a few weeks. Added some table salt and tried again on the "jungle." It took a couple days but the weeds were not happy. They yellowed and shrank, but still hanging on as of this message. My next spraying will have as much table salt as the full volume of vinegar can dissolve.
I try to apply it after a few dry days so my "liquid" will be a higher percentage of the moisture the plants use. And check weather so it wont get rained on for a couple days. And I am adding the Cutter Natural lemon grass liquid from their white spray bottle. It seems to meet my needs. Cutter also has a similar Backyard bug control (gray bottle) which seems to be better in some ways, but not for our dog.
Great. I wonder however, when it rains, does it dispurse the solution you sprayed to the surrounding areas?
@mrscms831; after reading through some of the comments I found one that said eventually salt makes the soil mushy & murky. Nothing will grow there. Ancient Romans spread salt on the enemies.fields to cut their food supply.
As far as bleeding, I suggest allowing an area of at least 1 ft. or more away from the plants you want to protect. I also suggest putting a temporary cardboard shield around the good plants to avoid overspray.
We use high strength pickling vinegar, 9% for less than $3 per gallon. Goes a lot farther and works better if you want to replant like killing weeds in a garden. Just wash down the acidity some.
I would recommend using Borax in the saltwater solution, it kills some insects as well.
why kill insects? they are important.
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I dump my motor oil on my rose bushes and they thrive. It is amazing.
In six months the lower part of your fence will begin to rust away from the salt exposure. Is it really worth it?
Good video. I have a water softener so I am going down and getting the water from it. I'm sure it will work. Thanks for sharing.🍁👍👍
Thank you so much for sharing this. Don't want any Monsanto junk on my place.
Do your best not to eat it as well! (GMO foods) ETp
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Alternatively you can do it like in my country, we round up the local hippies, put them in the trunk and unload them next to the place were the weed is. Then faster than you know it all the weed is gone and I mean literally light speed only clouds of smoke and a sweet odor remain in the air. That as cheap as it gets.
any problem with it cutting through the galvanized fence wire and rusting it?
Man....I tried exactelyyour recipe....it worked like a charme....thanks a lot.....
Thanks!
That would work great for killing weeds in the decorative rocks
Salt sucks out all the moisture in plants. Soap makes the spray stick to the weeds. Can also use vinegar straight with soap and salt. Microwave it to boil. This is another tip.
Thank you! Just what I was looking for.
roundup is an absorbable salt....most plants are not salt tolerant, so salt and soap is the best alternative...pool, water softner salts are just pure un iodized salt....finer the easier fo disolve...most plants wont survive salt in the soil...Vinegar is a mild acid, and will only change the ph until it washes away....some plants die from the extreme acidic change of vinegar but it takes a lot of vinegar $$$ not diluted...it sure doesnt take much roundup in a fine mist to do the job....i like burning myself 😁😁😁, or just plain tilling...for any garden..
I broad cast 200 lbs of granulated salt from Tractor Supply to an area about 20 feet by 20 feet. It looked like it snowed. I don't know what super weeds I have, but it only made a few brown spots here and there, and this year it doesn't even look like I used anything.
Because you didn't strip the oil with dish soap so the salt can soak into the plant
Boiling water will cook the root.
Yummy. Boiled salted weed root - don't over cook it or it will turn to mush. LOL
Try soap and isopropyl alcohol and wick it on, don't spray it.
Using a dip cup and a sponge brush. Reduces waste.
I tried the vinegar and dish soap. not so good. This worked great. Thanks--
Yep.... pretty cheap, until it rusts out the bottom 12 inches of that wire (and the posts, if you have any metal posts). Any applications of this mixture will damage any metal that it touches, and more applications will accelerate that damage. Furthermore, if your soil is not very sandy, then it will take a very long time for the salt to fade from the soil profile. I can appreciate the effort to give out handy advice here, but I would not recommend this solution unless you account for the adverse side effects to using salt.
Hard stuff to get rid of,...great video!
Absolutely awesome definitely we'll try thank you brother
You are a lifesaver!
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Thank You! I live in western CO and will try this as soon as the rain stops. Got some real monsters in my yard. I will let you know how it works here.
Crystal Woolen Make sure you saturate soil. Then nothing will grow in the soil if done enough.
I’m in co too. Did it work for you?
nice I will keep that formula in mind
in reading other comments I see that people are more worried about the soap which is actually good for the soil. It helps to soften it and I spray it down the rows of my garden. If you spray it directly on the plants and not wash it off with a sprinkler it can hurt them.
Yes, salt kills vegetation. This is apparent to those that live in states that salt their roads in the winter. Come spring one can see the "dead zone" on both sides of he road. Salt also destroys your cars.
So true! It always kills my grass near the edge of the road, takes months for it to grow back. Not very good for my cars either.
The part of roundup that hurts animals most is the surfactant (soap) portion. You've got more soap in yours that roundup does. Additionally Salt has a lower LD50 than Glyphosate and your solution has more of it. On top of that you are spraying way heavier than you would spray roundup. So at every single level you are looking at more toxicity from your concoction.
After that you have to consider long term impact. Roundup bidegrades in the soil, salt does not. Some will stick around in your local soil, some will wash along, but it doesn't break down ever. If you use roundup in your vegetable garden you can use it for centuries with no ill effects, if you used your concoction in the garden you might ruin your garden for centuries after just a few years, if you were in a dry environment.
I tried to ruin my soil, but the damn weeds just kept coming back over and over again
The Romans hated the Carthaginians so much that when they won the final battle, they forced them to sow their lands with salt. No crops could grow. A different type of holocaust.
Soaps just acts like Glue...salt kills&vinegar kills /Burns ! Do not forget to add Vinegar !!!!
softsoap is a hand soap. if you want dish soap, which is very acidic, use Dawn. The salt is alkaline, so they would neutralize each other. My ex found out the hard way that salt will kill a huge pecan tree when he exhausted the salt water from the water purifier around the tree.
I can only assume this will work for Ivy. I am concerned that nothing will grow where this solution is applied. which doesn't work for me.
@buck ewer Will it kill the grass and dandelions?
Get chickens, put a fence around the ivy and chickens in it. They will get rid of it.
Hello, Jim I am doing a market research to help my father's Chinese factory with foreign trade direct sales. I learned from other videos that you need to buy a mini excavator. Have you bought one?
👍 I just want to tell you that your saturated water with salt and some dish soap to make it stick to the black berry bushes was a complete success! I added some bleach with mine too. It took about a week or two to just kill every Bush in my taken over big yard. I can't thank you enough for your sharing this information. Have a great year my friend.
One month later -- great on anything above the ground: the "ROOTS" KEEP COMING UP! My friend am I doing something wrong? Is there anyway to kill the "ROOTS?"
Wow, that's great. Price is right too.
Place the water bucket on a concrete/asphalt pad.....pad gets warm, and warms the water. Warm water will dissolve more salt......and the dissolved salt is the killer...........
Awesome wish i seem this earlier before i out hte chemical in my ground. But i should of known better to use that round up crap. NICE POST
I’m getting ready to get some bushes chopped off close to the base. If I spray these on the stumps will this prevent from the bushes to grow back? Thanks!
Here watch this. This is how I do what you are talking about.
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I sprayed some on my ex-wife, she is now Salty as well as Bitter!
It takes maybe a ounce of round up in 2 gallons of water. And it takes a misting not a drowning of water to kill grass
I wonder if sea water would work.? If so it would work out even cheaper to make.
That is a great idea! Just add a little liquid soap to make it stick. Saturate the dirt and the soil won't support growth for a few years.
so obvious but I never thought of it, cheers for that
sea water is really good for making plants grow. Its actually very beneficial to veggies, in moderation.
All salt is sea salt.
Not all salt is the same though. The typical traditional table salt is so highly refined that all the healthy minerals are stripped from it. Ancient salt beds are going to have less of modern chemicals in it as well.
Some people WANT to kill grass/weeds forever! Like where we are about to build our back patio! Getting salt now. Thanks for the video...