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Baking soda is often used to remove dirt throughout the house. However, this eco-friendly cleaner can also be very useful in the garden or orchard. It can help you take care of a yellowish lawn, fight mold and invasive aphids. It can also be used to maintain garden furniture. But above all, it is not always known that it is an excellent weed killer. Used correctly, it can free you from the task of manually pulling out weeds (such as lilies, pigeon peas, nettles, dandelions, among others). There is no longer any need to use chemicals that are harmful to the environment! Find out how to use baking soda as a natural weed killer to remove unwanted plants from your crops.
Why trust it? Like mixtures based on boiling water (such as cooking water, salt water), coarse salt, dish soap, acetic acid (white vinegar) or black soap, baking soda is an ecological, biodegradable and very effective and economical weed killer. It will be the undisputed ally of gardeners who have eliminated the use of pesticides and other chemical plant protection products (fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides such as glyphosate, etc.) in their outdoor spaces. It does not pose any danger to our health or that of our pets and can be used safely on all surfaces to eliminate weeds: gravel, terrace slabs, walls. There is absolutely no risk of damaging them. Furthermore, if applied correctly, it does not pose any risk to the surrounding vegetation.
However, it is necessary to respect the doses to eliminate weeds very effectively. In fact, it becomes phytotoxic (toxic to plants, and therefore to weeds) only above a concentration of 1%.
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