weed killer

[Guest guest]

Hello,

I'm new on the list but not a new vegetarian. I guess it was over 37

years ago when I gave up meat. Back then there were very few

vegetarians where we lived and my mother thought I was going to die! I

only cut out meat and fish, and still use dairy and eggs, but organic.

 

Anyway, I was looking over the recipe files and noticed lots for

non-foods. I like to make as many things like that as I can, to avoid

stronger chemicals when I can.

 

Lately I've been spraying poison ivy like crazy cause after a horrible

experience with it years ago, I hate the stuff! I boil a cup of salt

in a gallon of white vinegar, let it cool, then pour it back in the

vinegar bottle and fill up a bought spray bottle with it as I need it.

It kills plants by sucking out their moisture or something. It's kinda

slow on poison ivy, and after I first tried it, I thought it wasn't

working and bought more weed killer. But that took a while to work on

poison ivy too, and I know poison ivy is hard to kill, so I decided to

be more patient and go back to salt and vinegar.

 

So it does work. The younger ivy plants seem to be more susceptible,

so it's best to spray as soon as it begins to grow in the spring. I

usually respray after rain, if the ivy is still living. I try to spray

when I don't expect rain for a few days. Anyway I hate poison ivy so

much that it's a pleasure to spray the doggone stuff, so I don't mind

respraying!!

 

The best part is I don't have to worry about using the poisons, plus

it's LOTS cheaper.

 

Phyllis

[Guest guest]

Use Salt in high concentrations only where you don't want anything to grow for a

while. One year someone told us to use Rock Salt in areas that you wouldn't be

planting things, like a kids playground area. The high salt content, made it

hard for anything to grow there for a while until it become sufficently diluted

from rain water.

 

Judy

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csakat

Saturday, May 27, 2006 5:07 PM

weed killer

 

 

Hello,

I'm new on the list but not a new vegetarian. I guess it was over 37

years ago when I gave up meat. Back then there were very few

vegetarians where we lived and my mother thought I was going to die! I

only cut out meat and fish, and still use dairy and eggs, but organic.

 

Anyway, I was looking over the recipe files and noticed lots for

non-foods. I like to make as many things like that as I can, to avoid

stronger chemicals when I can.

 

Lately I've been spraying poison ivy like crazy cause after a horrible

experience with it years ago, I hate the stuff! I boil a cup of salt

in a gallon of white vinegar, let it cool, then pour it back in the

vinegar bottle and fill up a bought spray bottle with it as I need it.

It kills plants by sucking out their moisture or something. It's kinda

slow on poison ivy, and after I first tried it, I thought it wasn't

working and bought more weed killer. But that took a while to work on

poison ivy too, and I know poison ivy is hard to kill, so I decided to

be more patient and go back to salt and vinegar.

 

So it does work. The younger ivy plants seem to be more susceptible,

so it's best to spray as soon as it begins to grow in the spring. I

usually respray after rain, if the ivy is still living. I try to spray

when I don't expect rain for a few days. Anyway I hate poison ivy so

much that it's a pleasure to spray the doggone stuff, so I don't mind

respraying!!

 

The best part is I don't have to worry about using the poisons, plus

it's LOTS cheaper.

 

Phyllis