Controlling Weeds The Natural Way

Weeds are something everyone will have problems with at some point in their lives. The typical solution is to nip to the shops and buy some hardcore chemicals to nuke them. Pause right here for a second….

Just the other week a relative had done just this, £3.25 (~$6) for a spray bottle of weed killer and by the looks of the garden it didn’t help too much. Now, I have recently joined the ‘green bandwagon’ and hate to see chemicals poured onto the ground almost as much as I hate to see the plastics used to make the bottle and the processes used to make the chemical itself. Add this to my natural frugal ways and I was on a mission to find a cheap and natural wake to ‘nuke’ the weeds.

The solution was boiling water. Yes you read right, boiling water. How after 25 years of walking this planet did I never think of boiling water to do the job? If you poor boiling water on any living thing you will severely damage it and most likely kill it so the same must go for weeds. Well I boiled the old kettle and gave it a go.

You take the boiling water and ideally pour it on the surface of the leaves since they are the structures that produce food for the weed, killing these limits the energy of the weed to recover. Pouring a good amount around the base so it soaks into the roots is also a good idea. Some perennials (dandelions) may still re sprout as they have very deep roots. If you have the space to dig a trench around its roots to help your water get in there then you stand more of a chance of completely nuking even the hardest of weeds.

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