How to Clean Your Lawn Naturally? Here’s How to Get Rid of Weeds and Brambles!
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How to clean your lawn naturally? How to get rid of invasive brambles? What are the natural solutions to achieve this?
How to Clean Your Lawn Naturally If It Is Full of Weeds?
Weeding can be a tedious task. You can quickly be overwhelmed if you don’t react in time. Here are a few tips to save you some trouble and get rid of weeds naturally and quickly!
The Classics: Weeding By Hand and With Cooking Water
First of all, make sure you have the right tools for the job. For example, a weeding knife will enable you to follow the roots of weeds in depth. Finally, dig the undamaged root out of the ground to make sure it won’t grow back. Also, take advantage of our grandmother’s recipe. Boiling, salted, potato cooking water is unbeatable for eliminating weeds. This is thanks to the heat and the effect of the salt. Throw it on the weeds to be eliminated, taking care not to touch any ornamental plants. It’s also effective on moss.
Solarization
Solarization, slowly but surely, is starting to take place in the garden. This involves spreading a black tarpaulin or a dark mulching sheet over the plot of land to be weeded, which accumulates heat under the effect of the sun’s rays. Under the cover, the plants are heated and eventually decompose in place. Ingenious, no?
Multipurpose or Selective Weedkillers
Using a multi-purpose weedkiller can be useful for eliminating weeds growing between the paving stones of your driveways, your patio or in flower beds. Just make sure that it does not come into contact with your ornamental plants, which could suffer the consequences. Here’s how to do it: spray the product on the leaves of the plant. Thus, it will spread to the roots. Do not hesitate to renew the application for one to two weeks to get rid of unwanted plants permanently. Another method for weeding overgrown lawns is to use selective weedkillers. This weedkiller will spare all the plants of the grass family, which make up your lawn. To do this, follow the instructions on the product packaging. Dose the product sparingly and optimize its effects by applying it a few days after mowing, on damp soil and in mild weather.
How to Clean A Bramble-Filled Garden Naturally?
Brambles should be removed as soon as they begin to impede the growth of other plantings, such as fruit trees or horticultural plants. Fall and winter are the best times to eliminate them because the brambles are dormant and lose some of their foliage. As this is a long and difficult operation, it’s best to know how to do it. Here are 2 natural methods especially for you!
Get Rid of Brambles with an Ecological Solution
Here’s our eco-friendly recipe for removing brambles from your lawn:
- 4 cups of water
- 1 cup of white vinegar
- 3,5 oz/100g of salt
First pour everything into a large container and stir until all the salt is dissolved. Then add vinegar, an organic acid that is effective on all types of weeds. Stir again until a homogeneous solution is obtained. After that, the eco-friendly herbicide solution is ready for use. So, all you have to do is pour it into a spray bottle and spray the brambles without forgetting their inner stems. The results are guaranteed on the following week!
How to Clean Your Lawn Naturally with a Natural Herbicide?
To make your own natural herbicide, you will need the following ingredients:
- 12 cups/3 liters of vinegar
- 2 lbs/1 kg of salt
- a small amount of dishwasher detergent
- a pressure sprayer
Start by mixing the ingredients and let them sit for about five minutes. When ready, add the mixture to the pressure sprayer. Then spray the bushes and soil around the bases of the plants. A few days later, unwanted plants should be just a bad memory.