We have a flower bed that is prolific in growing nut sedge, aka nut grass. The easiest approach I’ve found to deal with it has been to hire a local teen to come and pull the dang stuff up. The problem with that is that it doesn’t work very long, even though he digs out the roots. So, I’ve done some research on killing weeds safely and found that vinegar is supposed to work.
Vinegar contains acetic acid and the grocery store variety is not strong enough. You have to find a ten or twenty percent content. That is available at some feed stores. Some folks mix in a little dish soap to get the vinegar to stick to the leaves and some even add a touch of salt. The salt makes sense to me since I like salt on my vinegar and oil salad dressing. Therefore, the weeds should like the taste too.
The best plan seems to be to use a pair of garden gloves and a glass of wine. You pour a glass of wine and take it with you to the garden. There, you pull a few weeds and take a sip of wine. The instructions said to repeat this daily until all the weeds are gone. What I want to know is, what do you do then?
I suppose you could plant some new weeds.
PMO
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