DIY Super Weed Killer

Hello friends! I have had such a busy week! My hubby wasn't feeling too good so we had to take him to the docs. We still don't know whats going on so please pray for him! Also we decided to get a puppy! We are picking her up tomorrow so no pics today! Sorry, but next blog post I will have to add one! On the plus side our little Eli is doing great! So thanks for your prayers there and if you can continue to pray for our little guy I would appreciate it!

Now, on to the post. I have a ton of weeds popping up in-between the cracks in our driveway. It has been driving me crazy! I decided to do something about it! I didn't want to use the harmful chemicals found in weed killer so I decided to make my own. I have seen online that vinegar works wonders on weeds so I decided to look online to see what else works awesome. That led me to the formula I used to make my DIY Super Weed Killer. It took some figuring out and playing with different ingredients but I think I have something that works wonders!

These are the ingredients that I used for my weed killer. Very simple things and most we have at home! So here is the instructions:

DIY Super Weed Killer!

• Dawn Dish Soap
• Whole Cloves
• Iodized Salt
• White Distilled Vinegar
• Spray bottle
• Water

1. The first thing I did was take the cloves and a tiny bit of water. I took about 15 cloves. I added just enough water to cover them in a small pot and boil it to extract the clove. Also if you do essential oils (I am going to start soon!) there is a clove oil and you could use a couple drops of that and ignore having to boil it. 
2. Put the cloves and the water in the bottom of the spray bottle. If you look at my the above picture you will see how much water you should have. 
3. Put 1 1/2 tablespoons of salt in the bottle and swirl to stir. 
4. Put 2 tablespoons of dawn dish soap in the bottle and continue to swirl to stir. 
5. Last is to add the vinegar to fill the bottle. I filled up my bottle to the midpoint of the top neck.
6. Go outside and spray on weeds to saturate. 

That's all I did and let me tell you, I have some dead weeds. I will show you a pic in a sec but before I wanted to tell you some tips I found. First is if you spray it and the sun is shining on the weeds it actually kills it faster. Also you want to keep on spraying even after the weed looks dead because you want to kill the whole root. I would think it would take several days. I have sprayed mine twice today and will continue to spray for about a week. I think this works because it drys out the weed. I am not a chemist or any type of scientist so I have no clue if that is true or not but that's just what I think. Now, here is a before and after picture:

That was just after two sprays! I sprayed once at around 9 this morning and then again at about 1 this afternoon. I made sure to saturate the leaves quite well and made sure to get the middle of the weeds too. The difference is astounding! I also sprayed on a patch of weeds by our garage. I only sprayed a circle inside just so you could see the difference. Here that is:

I only sprayed that once just because I wanted you to see how well it worked. It was all green in the middle where that brown section is. I like this because your not using harmful chemicals. My 1 1/2 year old daughter was right by me the whole time and I even got some on her and it did no harm to her. You could spray this right on your skin and not have to worry about the horrible chemicals. I wouldn't, but you could unless your allergic to one of the ingredients. I should say that this will kill any plant. I wouldn't use it on a place where flowers are or get any on your plants that you want. There you have it, something new for you to try! Try it out and tell me how much you love it and how well it works for you!!!