Silver Cymbal what do you recommend for a grass spreader or broadcast spreader?

@@johnlong7276 I really like the Andersons LCO-1000 I know it isn't cheap but for homeowners its pretty much a lifetime purchase. Cheap spreaders can cause a lot of issues with inaccuracy, amzn.to/30dFwYi

Silver Cymbal or just use the 8.99 pump sprayer

I live in the uk can i use white vinegar the other two i can get from my shop

@@robertkat Roundup is effective (I used it for years), but has been linked to cancer and is now too risky for humans.

I thought about the 5% vinegar & what would raise the acid level like lemon juice???? I decided to use citric acid. 1 TBS/ quart is the same Ph as vinegar ( with my PH strips.) it seems to work just as well as the vinegar solution & doesn’t stink. Lol😅

@@nanowomanskdo you only use citric acid or do you mix it with vinegar? And I’m assuming your 1TBS/qt is 30%?

I use 5 percent too but more salt and dish soup and it works great

That's great to hear. I used to have gravel and wish I had known about weed control then I could have used it!

It’s safe, but it kills! Is acetic acid not a chemical?

@@johnstarkie9948 stomach acid is more acidic than citrus only battery acid is higher on the scale

That’s very nice of you to say. Thank you.

Agree! I had to unsubscribe from a few channels because every video was ~20 minutes to explain a simple process that could be done in 5 minutes.

Male medicine out of them and sell.them

did it work?

Glad to hear that, I was just as surprised. Based on other videos I didn't expect these amazing results myself.

Where did you get 45%?

Michael Ripperger they have it on Amazon. They have even stronger vinegar too

I cant wait to see my yard. Im using a bottle with 75% vinegar

@@danielguzman8346 you're about to have a desert lol. I'm kidding, how did it go?

I am about to put a patio together from scratch and this information is vital. Thank you.

@@honest1966 Make sure you use patio/paver sand in between the pavers! I suggest a rubber mallet after you throw down your first layer. The vibrations from the mallet will settle the sand and you'll be able to put a little more down before you mist it.

What a wonderful comment, I really appreciate that. Thank you for the kind words. Great to have you on the channel.

I have the same situation in my driveway. It's long and about 70% covered in weeds. We just moved in a couple of months ago and I don't think anything's been done to control them in years. Going to try this for sure. I'll let you know how it turns out. Going to take before and after pictures as well. Thanks this video. Saved.👍😊

Thanks for that I going to try this

I just use straight vinegar with no additives and works like a charm. I just spray in at the root. Next day no more weeds.

Thank you for the nice comment and glad it can help your chickens! Thanks for being a part of the channel

Just a little bit of information to help you understand what's going on. When you brew a beverage with an alcohol content, it's yeast that converts sugars and starches to alcohol in an oxygen starved environment. When you introduce oxygen to the process, the yeast converts those same sugars and starches to acetic acid, the same stuff that gives vinegar its distinctive smell. Without distillation, the vinegar doesn't get much above 5% before the yeast drowns in its own by products. Also, no matter the concentration of vinegar, it's a weak acid, and will not act stronger as an acid as concentration rises above a certain point, unlike strong acids like nitric or sulphuric acids. The same principles about the waste products of yeast fermentation mentioned above, govern how sweet or sour bread will be when it's done. The more you knead bread dough, the more oxygen you introduce to the process, and consequently the more sour the bread will be. Don't knead it as much, it will be sweeter.

@@brettelmerelmer3061 Thank you. I tried making my own vinegar from fallen fruit, cores, skins... it never got very strong.

You're welcome! I really appreciate the feedback

@xavier102772 I agree on your salt comment. 2 years ago a family member was purging some crawfish (submerging them in salt water) when prepping them for a boil and afterwards dumped the cooler of salt water out on the side of my driveway. 24hrs later, EVERYTHING growing there that was green was now dead. This happened in early spring and took almost the entire summer to fix. So I learned that day that high enough salt content in water will absolutely devastate a yard.

Would your grass die too if u just use the regular vinegar?..

@@dogfamily3115 yes

I drank all the liquor. Not good.

Does it work on bindis?

That good because my weeds r monstrous it never worked

Thank you very much

Great to hear, thank you for letting me know. Its surprisingly very good!

Video?

Soap works wonders.

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Are you using white vinegar or apple cider vinegar?

You can dissolve a bag of water softener salt overnight and it works all by itself. Winner winner chicken dinner

Thank you very much, I found the same thing too and those mixes never work to kill weeds much at all. Thanks again

@@SilverCymbal I see there's also a 45% super concentrated vinegar. Could that also be used

You can make medicine out of weeds

Care full..this is very corrosive.

Gabriel Ruvalcaba. Thank you for your advice

Scientist and you can look this up. Salt dissolves in water with minimal change in temperature. This is why road salt works to melt ice. SUGAR is extremely sensitive to temperature in how much and how fast it dissolves in water but not salt.

@@suzannehartmann946 OK...good to know....thanks!

Add citric acid powder to amp it up some

@@anonymousfarm4703 Good idea. Guess lemon juice will work too.

Tom Jones , are you thinking of using it on drains ?

@@shepherdsknoll8 Interestingly I was. My main trick for kitchen drains though is just plain hot water. I run the hot for a while to warm them up and then hit them with a shot of boiling from cooking whenever available. I try to keep them from ever running slow. Always worked for me when I cooked. With other cooks sometimes you need more. I'll also try the industrial strength vinegar on the driveway and under the hood. Have to watch how it reacts with aluminum though. Some cleaners turn aluminum dark gray.

Tom Jones , thanks for tips on the drain ! As far as an engine degreaser , I will suggest something I have recently invested in. It’s a way to get around having to degrease the engine at all. At 66 I bought my first electric vehicle, and I really recommend it. There is only a motor and the drive line has only 18 moving parts. In two years and 37k miles we have had NO maintenance. A 325 mile charge costs $8-10. I highly recommend it as a next vehicle.

No worries about different ways of doing things. Your formula can definitely work but you need to be careful, thats a lot of salt. If you dont want anything to grow in the spot for a while that would be ok, but this mix I that I did dissipates fairly quickly which can be good for lawns. But if you are using it on gravel or paths and your mix is working keep doing what works.

@@SilverCymbal Thanks for your response. I absolutely agree with you. I should have indicated where I’m doing this. It is a lot of salt. And I can tell you that poison ivy doesn’t like it. Unfortunately, we have a lot of it in Georgia. Not use to it coming from New England.

@Nacho Pop's no I haven’t as I am in the process of getting the equipments he recommended to use.

Please don't poison your land

It depends on this one. It may lasts a month+ or if the root isn;t killed you could see in sooner but this stuff is pretty potent for a natural control. I usually get 1-2 months for the majority of the areas I treat.

Depends on the seed and season.

Same here only added 1.5 cups of salt to 1 gallon.

Same here

Works really well.

Yes, I have used it on wet plants and it works fine. Try for as dry as possible but it will cling to the plants due to the soap and you should get good results. Thanks for being a part of my channel all the way from England too!

did it work?

u have to wash it out real good to perserve the tank... otherwise whether it kills the weeds or not it definitely kills (renders) the tank useless in a short span of time... but this formula he gave does work

The 30% acetic acid (vinegar) will corrode parts but very slowly. Think days or weeks, not minutes or hours. And it’s highly water soluble so several warm water rinses with effectively remove the acid. The salt is also corrosive but again, with low concentration, not in terms of a few hours. The dish soap will rinse away easily in the presence of the vinegar but using warm or even hot water will be more effective. This formula appears to be safe to use. I’m a research chemist, but it’s still just my opinion, have not tested any of this. I would not hesitate to use it though...

No, its just a few tablespoons and it dissolved very easily. Table salt is best since it's so small to start. Rock salt and water softener salt are really large and might clog if they are used.

Silver Cymbal thank you!

There is currently no organic product that can deal with that. There is a very safe alternative that I show you here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abiJmJV5yrXHgX0.html

@@SilverCymbal thanks for the quick response!

Kill the grass and let the weeds grow in

Kill it all and start over

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I agree with you, excellent option! Hope a ton of people see this so they stop using that Round Up junk, which is bad for your health, could cause cancer....

People eat it everyday and can't figure out why they're dying from cancers 😂

Glyphosphate should be federally banned. It is not just in Roundup, but in Ortho Groundclear, Eraser, Rodeo Aquatic, and other herbicides. WHO and other international agencies want it banned also.

Thank you, yes it will kill all plants its applied to but can be very useful

@@SilverCymbal Your video title is misleading to say the least! You need to change the title to 'Best Homemade Grass and Weed Killer'! Your mix will kill any and all grass that this mixture comes in contact with!

No you don't need to pull them out, they go from brown to white and then just wither away. A week later they are completely gone. Makes it a lot easier, less work.

Thank you I just shared a ready made version too that is very easy to use: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNNyZZmTqJimZ3k.html

KZfaq makes mistakes sometimes but fortunately they are correcting this/ That warning was incorrectly applied.

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@@veebee3969 I appreciate that, I have no idea why. All family friendly content on my channel.

Weeds have a right to Live to don'tcha know. Who are we to say they can't grow where they want to. You Tube Has to be P. C., atleast when they want to that is.....

Heck the Kudzu is CRAZY there!

It really works!

Ricky Pisano what is the ratio of these three?

@@ragdollb9667 3 Tbsp of Vinegar, 1/2 Tbsp of olive oil and 2 Tbsp of honey.

Mix with 1/2 cup warm water

Very true. Us humans can't take the poison either but most my neighbors are poisoning themselves and maybe me.

I really appreciate that thank you

I appreciate that very much, thank you.

Sure you can get it right here: amzn.to/30UJwNw

Ray Ray Not a “round-up” type carcinogen.

Dish soap is mostly water with tree oils (degreaser), lye, and gliserine (animal fat). Soap is not complex to make at all.

Lindsey Bruns: I guess we could discuss “carcinogens” all day long, what is and what isn’t. But the “natural” herbicide referred to in this video consists of four chemical substances, one of which (dish detergent) is complex and contains many barely studied substances because they are not intended for human consumption. Roundup is also not intended for human consumption but is widely studied the world over. In any case, both end up in the drinking water supply. The other three are sodium chloride (table salt), acetic acid (vinegar) and good old H2O - water. Acetic acid in high concentration is more likely to be produced by chemical reaction rather than “natural” fermentation since the latter method results in low concentration of the desired chemical. Table salt is a highly refined chemical prior to reaching the dining table and is a well known human toxin in large concentrations. So which do you choose? Well, since neither the homemade version nor the commercial version works worth a shit, you might as well just pull your weeds out by hand or clip them off with a weed trimmer because they’re going to grow back in a week or two anyway. You’ll save a bunch of money and effort and will dispense with the never ending argument as to which toxin is going to kill you quicker.

Herald Balthazar: Soap and detergent are two entirely different chemical substances with two entirely different manufacturing processes and I can assure you that you will be very hard pressed indeed to find dish “soap” commercially available anywhere in the last 40 or 50 years. This is why the stuff you buy is not labelled dish “soap”...because it is not soap and therefore cannot be sold as such. It is a complex mixture of chemicals that is considerably more efficient at cleaning dishes, it’s basic intended purpose. Sorry to disappoint.

Ray Ray wow you are a cubicle dweller arent you. So washing my dishes with dish "detergent" in your analogy will give me cancer from contact with it while washing the dishes as well as after when I eat from the dishes I "washed" with the detergent. 😵😵😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

i put a whole bunch of rock salt on mine yesterday....didn't do anything... I just threw rock salt on it..am i supposed to liquify it?

Wear goggles and gloves. At 30% acidity splash of it on my arm left a chemical burn! Strong stuff