DIY total Weedkiller

[yottie]

Is there a safe method of making up your own weed killer.
I need to clear a gravel area etc. and wondered if I could make up
some chemical solution for the job?

 

[johnny2007]

I heard enriched uranium works perfectly...
Failing that, poundland sells litre bottle of weedkiller for a whole pound sterling.
Outrageous!!!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Is there a safe method of making up your own weed killer.
I need to clear a gravel area etc. and wondered if I could make up
some chemical solution for the job?

There is nothing much which is really effective, without chemicals. Chemicals are not expensive, especially if bought in bulk to water down. I buy one of 5L which waters down to around 1:100 for spraying and I expect it to last the rest of my life. Cost around £30 via Ebay. Don't buy the small ready to spray ones, they are silly-expensive.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Buy some path clear, anything that is made from household stuff never worked for me.

Andy

 

[Captain Nemesis]

I need to clear a gravel area etc.

If ever a situation called for sodium chlorate...

Yeah, I know.

There is nothing much which is really effective, without chemicals. Chemicals are not expensive, especially if bought in bulk to water down. I buy one of 5L which waters down to around 1:100 for spraying and I expect it to last the rest of my life. Cost around £30 via Ebay. Don't buy the small ready to spray ones, they are silly-expensive.

Check out suppliers who sell to commercial users - groundskeepers, landscape gardners etc, and look at "commercial" products. You may have to say you have been trained in the use of herbicides like that, but Im sure you remember that summer job with the landscapers who showed you what you had to do?

Im not being careless with safety - as long as you read the instructions and know what numbers mean the stuff you mix up ends up the same as the stuff you buy in a garden centre but a gazillion times cheaper. Do what the label says about dilution and coverage and itll be fine.

Oh - and also do what the label says about not drinking it or licking your fingers. Thats important too.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Same chemical ingredients, same ratio

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Check out suppliers who sell to commercial users - groundskeepers, landscape gardners etc, and look at "commercial" products. You may have to say you have been trained in the use of herbicides like that, but Im sure you remember that summer job with the landscapers who showed you what you had to do?

That's what I do. This - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173902671055?epid=4045615154&hash=item287d682ccf:g:CtYAAOSwUylgOR2X

Sprayed or sprinkled in warm, dry weather, then 7 to 14 days later, it will all be shrivelled up, brown and crumbly.

 

[Munroast]

Old engine oil. When that gets soaked into the ground nothing will grow for years.

 

[JohnD]

Old engine oil. When that gets soaked into the ground nothing will grow for years.

Not permitted as it is poisonous, carcinogenic and long-term pollution of soil and groundwater