I’m a natural mom – I make my own DIY weed killer using essential oils and a cheap Walmart buy
A NATURAL mom has revealed the recipe for her DIY weed killer and it contains no harmful chemicals.
Instead, her environmentally-friendly concoction uses essential oils and a cheap Walmart buy.
It’s just the sort of thing Sandradee (@smalltown-sandradee) loves to cook up.
“I’m a mom and I enjoy making DIY natural products,” she said on her TikTok.
In her post, it was the turn of pesky plants in her garden to come under her green, beady eye.
“DIY natural chemical-free weed killer,” she wrote.
First and most important in her armory was a spray jug purchased from a Walmart garden center.
She tipped all her ingredients into this handy receptacle
These included: “Thirty percent of a gallon of vinegar.”
This was followed by an essential oil, 30ml of wild orange.
“Must have sun,” she said, because “the sun reacts with the citrus oils to burn/kill the weeds.”
Next, she added 15ml of clove and cheap salt.
But go careful with the salt, she wrote.
“Do not add salt if you plan to grow anything else there.”
Last of all a quarter of a cup of soap.
“Soap helps it stick to the weeds instead of running off,” she explained.
Chemical-free weed killer
A NATURAL mom has revealed the recipe for her DIY weed killer and it contains no harmful chemicals.
Ingredients:
30% gallon of vinegar
30 ml wild orange essential oil
30 ml of clove
One and a half packs of salt
A quarter cup of soap
Tip into spray jug, give a good shake and set to work. Results will start to show within a couple of minutes.
Once all the ingredients had been tipped into the jug, she was ready to start spraying.
“Screw the lid on and shake really well and continue to shake often when using.”
Using only natural ingredients, her weed killer was “safe around animals and kids.”
She demonstrated the difference her homemade weed killer made after two minutes, then after two hours, then finally the next day.
It looked like she had achieved her goal.
One commenter was impressed but could manage to utter only one word: “Dang,” they said.