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tk...I'd be really careful about using too much of that vinegar/salt recipe. I think it was meant to be used sparingly as a contact herbicide, just a little on the leaves of poison ivy or other noxious weeds. You might get so much salt in your soil that nothing will grow if you're just pouring it on. The vinegar, on the other hand, is reputed to be safe. Household vinegar alone isn't strong enough to kill a bermuda lawn, but you can get stronger vinegar from some garden suppliers. Try Garden's Alive or a similar supplier. I'd be curious to know if that would kill bermuda, it just might work. You can get more information and links on vinegars from a National Public Radio program website, You Bet Your Garden, hosted by Mike McGrath. I'll see if I can post a link...I'm a little shaky on my web skills. But as for bermuda grass, I have yet to find a way to defeat it. Good luck.
Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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okay, this is an address to weedkilling tips. I think the vinegar is the most likely to work. You should be able to navigate around the rest of Mike's site from here, and if you're not familiar with the show, check out the audio archives. http://www.whyy.org/91FM/ybyg/weedtip.htmlPlants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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Thanks for the link peppereater. I particularly like the flame thrower bit. I'm not quite that manic yet but I suppose if it were a real yard I might get that way lol. The bermuda and everything else is still growing "like a weed". But then it has mostly rained since I applied it.
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Well errrrrrrrrrrrrr, uhm, maybe alittle. But then like I said if i had a real garden that I had spent oh I don't know maybe over 1000 hours making beautiful and xxxxx number of dollars. I might invest in one too. And body guards to protect my priceless plants. And pest motion detector alarm systems. And a micro climate control system from the realms of science fiction and who knows what else. Rocksalt clamores for heavy footed trespassers.
Hum, I think I see what you mean.
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The weedkiller worked on the bermuda grass. Now of course the question is did I get so much salt in the soil that nothing will grow there. It will have to wait a month or so before I can answer that question. My budget is full up to the mark for this month.
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tk...I have heard that gypsum can help salt percolate down through the soil. You might add a little of that, but I'd certainly soak the soil several times to see if you can leach the salt out. How much of that mixture did you use?
Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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a few good rains will wash it down. that is the beauty of it. i use straight kitchen vinegar on the weeds in my walk way, and i promise, more keep coming after a while.
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I worried about that because it rained for three days after I applied it. But it still worked. I tried to reply to this post earlier but my message went elsewhere. I used one cup of the solution.
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tk...just one cup? How big of a patch of bermuda did that kill? You couldn't have done any lasting damage with just that much, but please give us all a little bit of detail on the situation...you've really got my curiosity going. I'm going to try that stuff on some poison ivy and bull nettles...you know what those are? Nasty boogers!
Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
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I think maybe you came in after me on the forum so have missed all my posts. Here is a quick summary. I'm new to gardening. I live in an apartment with a strip of government land behind it on a slope. It is all weeds. And one square foot at a time I am trying to make it a garden. I am disabled so I can manage about 15 minutes of gardening at a time. This particular experiment was for a swatch of land proabably about 8 inches wide and maybe 4 or 5 feet long.
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