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How to Kill Grass With Household Products
How to Kill Grass With Household Products. Although most homeowners toil over their lawns to make them as green and lush as possible, there are times when grass is undesirable. Grass is a problem when it grows in gravel walkways, patios or in landscaped areas. A broad-leaf herbicide will kill grass along with any weeds that it touches, but...
Although most homeowners toil over their lawns to make them as green and lush as possible, there are times when grass is undesirable. Grass is a problem when it grows in gravel walkways, patios or in landscaped areas. A broad-leaf herbicide will kill grass along with any weeds that it touches, but herbicide is expensive and often toxic. Using homemade products will kill the grass just as well and at a much lower cost.
Things You'll Need
Spray bottle
Garden sprayer
Bleach
Rock salt
Bowl
Bleach
Open a spray bottle and fill it three-quarters full of plain household bleach. For larger areas of grass, a garden sprayer can be used.
Place the top on the spray bottle and turn the tip to the stream setting, if available. The stream setting produces a more direct spray so that you do not unintentionally spray other plants and vegetation.
Point the spray bottle at the area of grass that you want to kill and squeeze the trigger to saturate the grass with bleach. Make sure to get close to the ground so that you spray the base of the grass blades as well as the top of the blades.
Wait two days and reapply if the grass is not completely dead.
Salt
Pour 1 to 2 cups of rock salt into a bowl.
Take a pinch of the salt granules between your fingers.
Place the pinch of salt onto the ground as close to the grass roots as possible. Continue placing pinches of salt throughout the area of grass until all of the undesirable grass is covered. If there is a large area of grass to kill, simply sprinkle the salt over the lawn in an even layer.
Tips & Warnings
The above solutions will kill weeds and flowers as well as grass.
Bleach will dissipate from the soil and ground water within three to five days.
Only use a small amount of salt and it cannot be removed from the soil once applied. The only effective way to regrow plants in saline soil is by over watering it to push the salt deeper, or by using artificial drainage techniques.
