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How to Keep Weeds Out of Garden: 8 Natural Remedies to Try

By Rose Ann Dabu

When the weather turns warmer, you’ll probably head out to your garden and start planting. But one issue you may run into is weeds. Many weeds can strangle your plants and prevent them from growing. Still, you may not want to douse them with chemicals, especially if you’re growing fruits and vegetables. But thankfully, there are many ways to keep weeds out of garden safely.

How to keep weeds out of garden: 8 natural remedies to try out

Here are eight great natural remedies to try in your garden.

Keep Weeds Out of Garden With Baking Soda

Sprinkle baking soda into the spaces between your pavers and other parts of your patio to prevent weeds, like dandelions, from growing. They won’t like the sodium.

You can use baking soda as a homemade natural weed killer
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Try This DIY Natural Weed Killer: Salt Water Solution

Bring 1 cup of salt and 2 cups of water to a boil. You’ll want to pour this mixture directly onto your weeds to kill them. You can also sprinkle some salt directly on unwanted grass and weeds that pop up.

Vinegar

There's an easy recipe for vinegar weed killer
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If you want to learn how to remove weeds from lawn naturally, you should stock up on vinegar. Here’s an easy-to-make recipe for vinegar weed killer:

Fill a spray bottle with some vinegar and spray it directly onto the weeds or grass you want to kill. Spray the root or lowest level of the stem to the top of the weed so you kill the roots and it won’t grow again.

You may have to repeat this every other day until it stops growing, especially if it rains. Also, be careful to protect your other plants from the spray.

Mulch

Mulch is a diy natural weed killer
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Covering your garden with mulch will also prevent weed seeds from growing and coming into contact with soil.

It also helps to keep the sunlight out, which will prevent them from sprouting. Mulch does double duty by enriching your soil and keeping it moist.

Vodka

Another natural weed killer spray uses 1-ounce vodka, some liquid soap, and 2 cups of water. Only make enough of this solution for you to use in one shot.

It’s best to apply this mixture on a sunny day and use it on weeds that grow in direct sunlight. The alcohol will break down the waxy coating on its leaves and will help the sun to dry it out. It won’t work in the shade.

Use a Weed Torch

If you’re not trying to get down and dirty in your garden, you can always blast weeds with a weed torch. Weed torches work by heating up the water inside the cells of the plant.

The water turns to steam and the cells inside the plant explode causing it to die. You don’t have to char your weeds, just let them wilt.

Important note: Never use this on poison ivy or other poisonous plants because it will release the poison oils into the air and thus into your eyes and lungs.

Try Newspaper

How to remove weeds from lawn naturally: use newspaper
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Did you know that newspapers can be a homemade natural weed killer? This is how you do it: wet your soil, then place a layer of newspaper down over your weeds. Wet it once more and cover it with some mulch.

This keeps out the sunlight so your weeds can’t grow and also provides a warm shelter for earthworms. Bonus points because you’re also recycling.

Does Cornmeal Kill Weeds

Does cornmeal kill weeds? Yes it does
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Does cornmeal kill weed? Yup!

Sprinkling your garden with cornmeal will prevent weed seeds from germinating. However, it will also prevent all seeds from growing into plants so you will want to wait to use this trick until all your plants are established and you’ve finished planting your seeds.

Takeaway

Trying to keep weeds out of garden can be a difficult task. But with these natural ways to do them, it can be easier without compromising your safety.

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