"Cereoid-UR12yo" wrote in message
.. .
VINEGAR IS NOT AN HERBICIDE AT ALL!!!!!!!

AND DISH SOAP IS NOT AN INSECTICIDE, but I have killed a lot of bugs with
it.

I use 20% vinegar on crabgrass, and if it doesn't killed it outright, it
certainly slows it up.

Shepherd

Valkyrie wrote in message
news:1056778411.555856@yasure...
Vinegar is a poor herbicide, it needs to be the high percentage, 20%,
and
then needs to be used full strength while the plant is in full sun and
then
said plant will wilt and get all brown and grungy and die
(sometimes)...........then they will all be back in a few weeks and you
can
do this process all over again and again and AGAIN. Torch 'em, dig 'em
up
or
spritz 'em with Round-Up if this is not against your delicate
sensibilities. Get a big old screw driver and dig them out and if you
really
have a problem with them re appearing sprinkle some preemergence stuff
in
the cracks or just keep digging them out. I had a flag stone patio and
used
Round-up, I had that little 12oz. bottle for about 3 years. On a sunny
day
I'd just give the weed a little tiny spritz and that was it. OR you
could
do
like my neighbor did with his brick driveway.......just mix up weed
killer
in a 3 gallon sprayer and saturate the ENTIRE bricked area, after all
more
is always better in some people's book, and then he had dead grass foot
prints from him walking over the drive and then onto his grass, and also
doggy prints and kid prints... looked like an Arthur Murray dance floor
for
Merange` lessons..the run off also killed everything within a two foot
radius of the driveway...it'll give the rest of the neighborhood
something
to chuckle about for years!

Val


"Phisherman" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:33:06 -0400, Chelsea Christenson
wrote:

My master gardener suggested a solution of vinegar and water
for
killing the weeds that come up between the bricks in my patio.
Unfortunately, she's on vacation now, so I can't ask her: what is
the
correct ratio of vinegar to water?


I used vinegar full strength on weeds growing out of the driveway
cracks. It did not work worth a damn. The propane torch worked,
though.