Homemade weed killer or shop bought

[Giraffe76]

Hi all,

We are starting to see weeds coming through on our driveway and garden path between the slabs.

My wife has suggested I use a homemade solution but I wanted people's opinions on what homemade solution people have used which has been effected or whether people have found a shop bought product has been better and if so which one please?

Any recommendations on either option would be most appreciated

Kind regards mark

 

[Koolpc]

Flame thrower....

 

[Why Not Indeed]

Concentrated glyphosate is so cheap, I am not sure why you would bother trying to concoct something. It cost me less than a tenner for what will probably last me more than a decade.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Concentrated glyphosate is so cheap, I am not sure why you would bother trying to concoct something. It cost me less than a tenner for what will probably last me more than a decade.

I paid a bit more than that, for 5L of concentrate, but it will see me out, even though I have lots to do. Point is, don't buy the ready to use, dilute, especially not in the squirty bottles - you would be paying well over the odds, for what is essentially - mostly water, and a fancy name on the bottle. The concentrate dilutes down, to something like 100mL, to 7L of spray. That goes in a pump up spray bottle, which lasts me the entire year. I go round with the spray at the start of summer, on a dry day, it takes two weeks to kill what I spray, then I go around again, picking up any I happened to miss on the first round. What's left, kills off the weeds which appear later.

It needs to be sprayed on a dry day, at least 4 hours of dry - so it gets absorbed by the plant, down to its roots.

 

[Giraffe76]

Concentrated glyphosate is so cheap, I am not sure why you would bother trying to concoct something. It cost me less than a tenner for what will probably last me more than a decade.

Where do you buy this product from?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Where do you buy this product from?

Ebay, or Amazon. Check the concentration level.

 

[endecotp]

"Homemade weedkiller"?????

That sounds like something from a Health & Safety Executive press release.

Is this some stupid YouTube thing, or AI fantasy?

Let me guess - it's just vinegar and baking soda, right?

 

[Giraffe76]

"Homemade weedkiller"?????

That sounds like something from a Health & Safety Executive press release.

Is this some stupid YouTube thing, or AI fantasy?

Let me guess - it's just vinegar and baking soda, right?

Actually it was a suggestion from my wife who's been trying to keep coats down