Re: Killing Weeds With Salt


"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Following the post in here a few days ago I made a very strong
(saturated) salt solution which I poured on 6 weeds in my new drive,
they're all deaded :-)

Since it seems to be safer (for the mutt and wild life) anybody any
idea how strong a solution I need to kill all the little s*ds? Do i
need to get Tesco's best or will some type of cheaper bulk salt do the
job?

Just the cheap salt will do - and I usually just shake it into the
centre of the weeds - the salt is sucked in by the weeds and travels
down to the root and kills them off.
--
Anita

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