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Old 24-08-2016, 12:17 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren[_5_] Nick Maclaren[_5_] is offline
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Default Does boiling water really work?

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Roger Tonkin wrote:

Slightly off topic, this came through today on the BT web site
under the title "13 Genius Uses for Washing Up Liquid"

1. Weed killer
Mix with salt and white vinegar to make a homemade weed killing
liquid.


There's one born every minute. But boiling water works perfectly
well on most annual and seedling perennial weeds, so is as good
as anything for killing them on patios etc. It's useless on
anything deep-rooted.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.