THE RANGE has the perfect budget tool to help blitz pesky garden weeds this summer.
With temperatures set to reach 35C today, Brits across the country are likely making plans to soak up the sun in the garden.
However, whilst you’re out topping up your tan on the patio, you may have noticed pesky weeds poking through the cracks of your slabs.
Weeds grow faster during the hot summer weather, and can be tricky to manage.
The Range Weed Spray Rose
However, with The Range’s Weed Spray Rose, your garden will be weed free in not time.
The nifty gadget costs just £5.99, and can be cut to size to fit a variety of watering cans and spout sizes.
Simply place it on top of your watering can spout, place weed killer inside, and spray your weeds with the spray.
The Range said: “The curved surface design ensures even distribution every time.
}Featuring a graded End Fan-shaped rose for applying liquid weed control straight from your watering can.
“Can be cut to size for use with a variety of spout sizes and watering cans.”
You can purchase the weed killer online, or at your local The Range store.
More Weed Killing Hacks
An expert from Moral Fibres revealed that another budget friendly way to kill weeds is to add three teaspoons of washing liquid to a vinegar and salt solution and pour this on the unwanted plants.
According to the expert, the homemade weed killer “works indiscriminately on all plant life and can turn your soil acidic”.
“My main tip is that this homemade weed killer recipe works best on a dry sunny day,” they continued.
“I’d suggest applying it at midday, or just before, when the sun is at its peak. It really helps to dry out the weeds.”
According to the experts at House Digest, a £2 product can be used on patio weeds that will cause them to weaken and die fast.
Why you shouldn't use fizzy drinks as a weed killer
THE internet is full of gardening hacks - some incredibly useful, and others just downright stupid.
Fabulous’ Associate Editor and gardening enthusiast, Rebecca Miller, has shared her thoughts.
“The latest suggestion is to use fizzy drinks as a weed killer – but this will cause more harm than good.
Fizzy drinks contain acidic ingredients which, yes, will effectively kill weeds – but also any other plant it touches.
More importantly, it will impact your soil quality because of the artificial sugar content.
While this may not seem like a bad thing because plants need sugar to survive, the issue is, the sugar in fizzy drinks, is the wrong type of sugar plants need, and it cannot be absorbed by them.
Instead, the plant which has been covered in soda will pull water from the roots of surrounding plants, causing them all to become hydrated.
So yes, you might kill a weed or two, but you’ll also see a lot of your other plants and flowers dying.
To add to this, the microbes and underground critters that like the sugars found in fizzy drinks, are often not good for plants – and some of them can be actively harmful.
If you have pesky weeds, the old fashioned way is the best. Get a kitchen knife, a weed puller or brush and remove them by hand.
But remember – a weed is just a plant growing in a location you don’t want it to.”
The gardening gurus stressed that rubbing alcohol – a very powerful disinfectant which you’ll find from just £2 on Amazon – can serve as an excellent way to get rid of weeds for good.
However, green-fingered gardeners should note that rubbing alcohol should only be used on patio weeds and not around any other plants, for a very important reason.
The experts explained: “The challenge with most weed killers, including rubbing alcohol, is their non-selective nature.
“This means they don’t just target weeds; they can also harm other vegetation, such as your beloved plants and lawn grass.”
So if you want to ensure your other plants don’t get harmed in the process, using it in between your paving stones – where you’ve likely not got any other plants or grass growing – is the best way to go, as there’s less risk of contamination.
