Have you seen the ads for lawyers looking to represent people who have been harmed by Roundup? Yeah, don’t go near that stuff. Solve your weed problem with a 100% nontoxic weed killer that’s cheap and available everywhere.
Do you have areas around your yard where you never want vegetation to grow–places like landscaping rocks, dirt driveways, and play areas?
Above are some shots of my landscaping rocks, and below part of my dirt driveway. Both are areas I never want plants to grow.
The cheap and easy nontoxic weed killer: SALT!
I was reading one time about how the oil fields of North Dakota leave behind salt deposits that don’t allow future plants to grow, and I thought, Hey, I can use that knowledge!
If you’re like me and love gardening and plants, you likely want to avoid dangerous chemicals. The active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, could cause cancer, liver damage, or even death. Of course the Monsanto people don’t admit that, but those lawyers offering to represent people harmed by Roundup are real.
And while we’re on the topic of health, check out my post on 7 Ways to Boost Your Immune System, and then use some of the garden produce you grow to make Healthy Keto Egg Dish for dinner.
Any salt works, but since you can go through a lot of salt spreading it on wide swaths of weeds, a big bag of softener salt is the way to go. Both the smaller crystals and the larger cubes of softener salt work equally well as a nontoxic weed killer.
After you spread the salt, you can water it in or leave it and wait for rain. Even if you water it, it’s not going to disappear immediately, so do it when you’re not expecting tons of guests for a while.
The weeds will die in time and better yet, they won’t return because the ground will be saturated with salt and unable to support plant life. The caution here is to avoid spreading salt on your nice plants and realize that, like Roundup, this is an all-encompassing killer that is effective for years.
Now, after all that ugliness, I’m going to leave you with some pictures of some planters in my yard. Below is a combination of begonia (pink), vinca (white), and lobelia (purple).
Oh, I love ivy. I overwinter the ivy inside and then repot it several different places in the spring. In this planter with the ivy are dark pink impatiens, light pink petunia, and pink begonia in the back.
This pot contains another group of my favorites: purple verbena, pink gerbera daisy in the center, and the almost-ready-to-bloom salvia Victoria on the right.
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