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vinegar and disk soap weed killer is not working
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Also, this is one for you. My blue garlic comes out pink. I was told that this is because my soil is very alkaline (verified by the local nursery lady.) I little vinegar may help. Your thoughts? Vinegar's effect is pretty much like cutting the tops off - dubious for really killing the whole plant, other than repeat applications eventually exhausting the roots, or for tender young weed seedlings. Vinegar's effect on the pH of the soil would be fleeting at best. So it's pretty valid to say that if you have time to pour a cup of vinegar on the plant, you have time to chop the plant off with a hoe to similar effect. http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/pastpest/200714f.html Too late for you now, but letting weeds go to seed is NOT what you want to do when "in hope of replacing it with a garden" - you want to mow the heck out of it right up until you turn it under or bury it with good soil. Roots can push into some pretty inhospitable soils. Depending on your pH range, you might select a suitable cover crop/green manure, till the mess, and plant the cover crop, precisely for the beneficial effect of the roots (as well as the eventual decomposing of the top mass, and the shading out of weeds.) If your pH is less than 8.2 (you said it was alkaline, so the lower range of 6.0-6.3 won't apply to you) alfalfa can do wonders as part of a "green manure" program, and will shove roots amazing distances downward. Vast quantities of "brown manure" (up to and including sheet composting 6-12" deep) will also help (both to build soil and to buffer pH.) You might find this a worthwhile read WRT alkaline soils: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/mg/Gardennotes/222.html Depending on your free lime situation or lack thereof, sulfur may not or may help with your pH (depending, of course, on exactly what it is and if it needs help - start with a soil test.) -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away. |
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