Kill weeds, not beloved plants, when using sprayed herbicides
No matter where you garden , or how good a nurseryman you are , you will always have to contend with weeds .
While bridge player rip may be the good , most environmentally safe elbow room to get rid of grass in your garden , invariably you ’re going to have hard , hard - to - pull weeds that have really rooted in . In that case , you ’ll plausibly look to an herbicide for aid . If the gage you ’re trying to get rid of is in a seam or border of your valued flowers , you run for the risk of that weed killer drifting and damaging those plant . Thankfully , there is a good way of life .
This summit fare from Fine Gardening contributing editor Genevieve Schmidt from Arcata , California . Take a vulgar spray nursing bottle and mix your weedkiller of choice to the recording label ’s way . Or do it the sluttish way and bribe a premixed variation . Then take a 16- or 20 - oz . cup and cut a hole in the bottom that tally the nozzle of the spray bottle you ’re using . On the receptive end of the cup , create an angled opening with a pair of scissors .
Once you ’re in the garden and have a grass in pile , take your spray bottle and insert the nozzle into the bottom of the cup . site the loving cup on top of the weed and spray forth . The loving cup becomes a buffer , inhibiting the nebulizer from wander onto the flowers on either side .
The flowers are fine , but that weed is a goner .
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