Vinegar vs Baking Soda Weed Killer Comparison 

thank you so much for doing the comparison and explaining the part about adding salt/ sun versus shade. Great teaching, simple, practical. Loved it

Would be nice to see what the weeds looked like after a week or two, do the weeds return after three or four weeks after treatment?

Baking soda powder works on crab grass...I have no problem with salt for areas away from other plants ground roots. There is salt in the soil in coastal Florida anyway.

Thankyou so much! Will definitely give it a go on my allotment. I am overwhelmed with weeds. Was going try salt.NOT NOW! 🙏🏻😊

Used vegetable oil thats been heated 400 degrees in fryer, pour on Bermuda grass. This heat oil absolutely kills everything it’s poured on.

Boiling hot water poured on weeds sun or shade. One to two days dry...rake or pull, pour boiling water again to kill any remaining roots. Done.

Why not invest in a pump sprayer and save some effort? (They're inexpensive.)

I used a plant based hypoallergenic, soap and it was effective within minutes! Guess I won't be apart of the " Round-up Law suit"! LOL

No more poisonous Roundup. Praise GOD

Great to know the baking soda is not going to cut it. Thanks for the video. How long before they come back??? I am no a person who likes to do the same thing over and over. ( That's the trouble with housework. You clean and 6 months later you have to do it all over again. 🤣 ( stolen from Joan Rivers)) I am not watering the dirt and they seem to grow from the dew in the morning and that is it. It is so easy to have weeds grow and so hard to have plants you WANT to grow.

For sidewalk or driveway weeds salt is a big plus. It keeps them down longer. But I can see why it would be a big no no in a garden.

The soap is used as a surfactant. Baby shampoo works as well and is much cheaper and smells great 👍🏻

Great info and thanks for showing the 3 examples. Super informative

LoVe this video! Tip: mix the baking soda and water in a bowl, then pour into the spray bottle!

I have focused a propane torch on weeds. Very effective - very fast. If weather is cool it takes longer to kill weeds. Use cleaning vinegar because the concentration is higher than household vinegar. It works faster.

Good job. Thanks for posting. Very clear!

Thank you Jack for sharing this. I am surprised that 5% vinegar works so well, as other RU-vid videos show they are too weak. They recommend more than 20% acidity. You have clearly shown they work - in hot sunshine.

I'm trying to kill foxtail weeds that have taken over the landscape rock a previous homeowner installed. Last year was not successful, but the mixture was different, I plan on trying your straight vinegar and one other mixture this year, but earlier, even though it's not hot enough, we do have full sun, and because the weeds are just now emerging and haven't set seed yet.

I’m pretty sure the amount of salt you would use isn’t enough to cause soil problems . Plus unless you’re using it in the garden . You’re spraying where you don’t desire plants to grow.

This is a really good comparison... So it means that, the pH of the vinegar... I googled, is around pH 2. And then the baking soda is actually 8. So the acidity of the vinegar, kills off the growth, when the plant is trying to grow in the sun. Interesting....

Great stuff as always.

Unfortunately the foul smell of vinegar is too much.

When you use baking soda, you are adding salt to your vegetation. What is baking soda made of chemically? Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogen carbonate), commonly known as baking soda (mainly North America) or bicarbonate of soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. It is a salt composed of a sodium cation (Na+) and a bicarbonate anion (HCO3−).

Thank you for sharing. It's amazing that so many people promote baking soda but it didn't do a thing in your experiment. Regarding the argument that the roots grow back, I bet a higher horticultural grade of vinegar would take care of any crabgrass returning.

Thanks for the great video. Can we use this Vinegar+Soap to kill the weeds around the Pecan Trees? Will it cause any damage to the trees?

That was very interesting, thank you.

It works but don't use a cheap plastic spray container. I did and when I put the top on to mix it it blew up in my face. Sounded like a bomb and scared me to death. Thank God I had on safety glasses. It went went everywhere. What a mess. So when I re-did it I used a bucket and just poured a small amount slowly on the unwanted grass and weeds and that worked well 🙃

30 ° lol, England , it's unlikely even with climate change, but thanks, I'll try it.

Appreciate your sharing, it was helpful! THANK YOU! 👍

Thanks Jack. Gonna try it.

I've a site full of weeds. If i spray vinegar and all weeds die thats awesome, but will the soil be able to grow any more plants in it ?

Baking soda is sodium by-carbonate.

Thanks for the information my friend happy growing

in Ireland it will never work than as it is never 30 Celsius and it always rains

Won't vinegar sprayed on concrete damage the concrete.

can i apply the vinegar solution to kill weed in my vegetable garden? Will it affect my vegetable plants (tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, luffa, squash, eggplant, okra)

If you mix the vinegar with the baking soda, you make a volcano

Tq for the tips.... Will try... U doing great video., All the best for ur upcoming videos...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I put vinegar on my French fries and it dried them up as well.

Thank you for the video. I am curious what is the reason for not using salt to kill weeds?

Living in Canada...SO...basically we don't have a lot of days with 30 degree celsius...

So much incorrect information. Let's dive in. First, baking soda _is_ salt. It's _sodium_ bicarbonate, which is a salt. BTW, the combo of vinegar _and_ baking soda can, with respect to certain plants, amplify and prolong the herbicidal power of the vinegar. Second, as for the castile soap you're using, first, one of the primary ingredient in it is _potassium_ hydroxide, which is…you guessed it…another salt. But regardless, soap is just a surfactant and thus is almost useless as an herbicide. The only potential benefit it could have here is to allow the vinegar and/or baking soda to cling to and coat the plants. But even then, you don't specifically need castile soap to do this (any kind of liquid soap would work). Finally, please don't say things like "dish soap might contain some chemicals." Might? Of course it contains chemicals. It's made of nothing but chemicals. The bottle it comes in is chemicals. The air we breath, water we drink, food we eat, our bodies, the earth itself, the sun, the moon, and everything that has physical form is made of chemicals (i.e., molecules, which are made of atoms).

i have a gravel driveway and this is just what i need! thanks so much for sharing

Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.

I poured 2 galons of vinegar into my pump sprayer. I quickly added 3 boxes of baking soda and screwed the cap on. 2 minutes in, my Hudson Sprayer shot 50 feet into the air. Did I do something wrong?

Results at 2:20

Thank you for posting the video. Really interesting! :)

Please can you explain why salt should not be added to soil ? I am curious to understand.. Vinegar is not bad to soil..? and Vinegar is very expensive - for small area it may be fine, how about if I have to control week for 10 acres , very big farm lands ? Please explain.

Used vinegar and didn't do anything to the weeds

Thanks for the tips mate... Cheers

Thanks. Great video

I need something I can spray on my entire back yard, not something that is spot spray. I wish I could use this as a ground spray.

Great, informative video!

Those weeds in the cement cracks look like alot like of my grass. I put pure baking soda on a spot and after a week its all black. Can you tell me what weed was in the cracks. I am now thinking it might be dallis grass or crab grass. Thanks

Does this work for poison ivy, and does it kill the whole plant ?

Thank you, I did

Salt as well as beer will kill slugs, but also destroys your grass and soil. I purchased a commercial grade slug and snail killer but a month or so after applying it I was overrun with rodents. After some research I found rodents sense the commercial killer as a chocolate food and it can be detected from a mile away. That's when I tried the salt and ruined my grass on the left side of my driveway. I never tried the Beer...maybe that would have worked better, although I may end up with a yard full of drunken rodents?

How to get rid of small plants coming up in my terrace cracks and crevices .

baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. sodium is salt ergo baking soda is a form of salt

50% white vinegar + 50% rubbing alcohol + 1 tbs dish soap :-)

5 % acidity is that sufficient to kill the weeds .?

Great vid! Thanks!

Sir. Question how about may farm have red hot plant have grass in the lower ,question is said venegar kill my plant red-hot pls reply for example in 16 leter sprayer pls give and advice one letter be what are water and Viking soda to spray my .plant ,thanks for reply

What will this do to the grass and plants ? Bob T

Um....baking soda is sodium bicarbonate...sodium is salt. So baking soda does contain salt.

If we mix both.... Salt and vinegar.. Solution it is help full to... Kill weeds?

How can I get the white vinegar to buy ?

Doesn’t baking soda contain sodium? Also the “weeds” around your pavers are grass.

I am hearing vinegar does not kill the roots and weeds regrow. Is this right?

What to do with the weed once the vinegar solution kills the weeds?

Just a question : what you call "baking" soda, is that really a product used to bake cakes ?

Best thing is to pull weeds from the root for once, if you have time left.

Very helpful

Why no salt?

Castor oil or Castile oil?

Wont it harm the plants nearby?

It's hard to watch this video and pay attention, you're much too handsome. I subbed ya...twice!

The Dr. Bronners pure Castillo soap, he was a eugenics believer. Hence all the crazy stuff printed on the bottle. Is there an alternative ? I won’t use that brand.

Does it kill grass along with weeds?

5% vinegar and/or baking soda do nothing. You need 30% acetic acid and salt to provide a (temporary) solution

Anyone? Can I use citric acid crystals to make the equivalent of straight vinegar. Will it work and what is the correct ratio of crystals to water?

Thanks

Thanks Jag - a very concise and informative video comparison which I found very useful. Many thanks for taking the time to make it.

Thank you. I have Dr Bronners Castile Soap.

Is this 5% or 30% vinegar?

Good idea sir

So what about the roots?

now try 30% vinegar

Why is salt bad for the cracks of your concrete? Thank you

Nothing works better than Circa..

Baking Soda is benifical to plants

Have you ever tried using citric acid powder as a weed killer?

how to deal with weed which has grown in my lawn as i want to protect my grass too?

Nice info

ROCK SALT or water softener salt in water in a $20 sprayer works the best lasts more then a season as well

Could it kill rice plants too? Please reply.. I want to kill weeds in my rice fields without damaging the rice panicle itself, i lost trust in any synthetic herbicide, so very expensive but less effective.. Pls rsponse thnx !

I use the winegar from my pickle jar...

vinegar

Good

hATE TO GO THRU THIS ON A DRIVEWAY 175 METERS LONG ~