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RE: vinegar and "weeds"

At 12:44 PM 6/5/2002 -0500, Chris Westerman wrote:
>Garden-ville sells 20% vinegar and lists it as "an effective non-selective organic herbicide".  I have never tried it, but if it is non-selective it may harm whatever it gets on.

Ordinary vinegar is perhaps 4% to 8%.  One commercial
version also has 5% citric acid.

A quick Google search http://www.google.com/search?q=vinegar+herbicide
shows lots of discussion of the issue.  

Some say it just kills the foliage and not the roots, which I'd believe.  
And 20% acetic acid isn't playful stuff, either.  Another message
suggested it worked by reducing the Ph of the soil to 3,
which required doses of lime to bring back to life.

http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/ppdl/expert/Vinegar_Weed_Control.html

http://www.northwesthort.org/content/2001_archives/Fall/The%20Vinegar%20Debate.htm

- John

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