{"id":15698,"date":"2019-06-25T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/?p=15698"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:19:40","slug":"homemade-weed-killer-diy-pesticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/homemade-weed-killer-diy-pesticide\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Weed Killer \/ DIY Pesticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to &#8211;<br \/>\nFor this recipe, all you need is vinegar of some kind, salt, and soap. The soap helps cut through oils the plant\u2019s leaves have as protection, and the salt and <a href=\"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/the-vinegar-experiment\/\">vinegar<\/a> dry out the plants to kill them. There are variations and substitutions that can be made, and I\u2019ll list those below. For the recipe weed killer, you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n<p>1-gallon white vinegar<\/p>\n<p>2 cups Epsom salt<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 cup Dish soap (Castile soap can be used for a more natural option)<\/p>\n<p>To make the homemade weed killer, combine the ingredients in the order listed in a large garden sprayer.<\/p>\n<p>Replace the lid on the sprayer, and gently mix the ingredients by shaking and swirling. You don\u2019t want to shake it so vigorously that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soap<\/a> foams too much.<\/p>\n<p>Pump up your sprayer, and wet the weeds with your homemade killer solution. You should be able to see a difference within 8 hours of spraying the homemade weed killer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to &#8211; For this recipe, all you need is vinegar of some kind, salt, and soap. The soap helps cut through oils the plant\u2019s leaves have as protection, and the salt and vinegar dry out the plants to kill them. There are variations and substitutions that can be made, and I\u2019ll list those below. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136504,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions\/136504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}