Looking for an organic weed killer? Try vinegar!

Not all “chemicals” are a no-no in organic gardening. Vinegar — which is in fact dilute acetic acid — can be used as an effective and natural way to kill weeds. If you can’t pull up a particular weed or don’t want to deface your garden or yard, zap the weed with vinegar on a sunny day.

Here’s a before and after shot from using our 20 percent vinegar organic weed killer product.

We sprayed on the vinegar at about 9 a.m., and then came back to check it again around 3 p.m.

Although you can use plain old vinegar that you get from the grocery store, it isn’t as strong as 20 percent vinegar solution, so it won’t work as well.

It works as a contact defoliant, and not as a poison. Basically, it burns up everything it touches when you spray it on a plant. So you need to be careful not to spray the “good plants” when you apply it. On really tough plants, it might take a couple of applications if the plant starts to recover.

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