We couldn’t products labelled as ‘cleaning vinegar’ rather than ‘white vinegar’ for sale in the UK. However, you can buy products like Dri-Pak Extra Strength White Vinegar, which is 6% acid. As always, keep the children and pets away from the treated area until the weedkiller is completely dry. Pros Vinegar that kills weeds does have a slight vinegar smell but don’t worry it doesn’t smell as strong as malt vinegar. Use the juice of half a lemon or 10 drops of bottled lemon concentrate to reduce the vinegary smell. Vinegar is an excellent way to remove stains from clothes. Pour some white vinegar on the stain and rub it in with your hands until the liquid starts to foam (it’s also helpful to pre-treat the stain by sprinkling table salt or baking soda on it before applying vinegar). Rinse out, then proceed as usual with the laundry cycle.

Distilled vinegar is made from a range of other vinegars, such as rice, malt, fruit, apple cider and more. This has a lower acidity which makes it less suitable for tough cleaning jobs. If you have a lot of limescale that needs removing, white vinegar is the better option. Size White vinegar can break down these stains as well as any gunk which may have formed a ring where the water level once was. It’s not just our flower beds that have their weed-related problems, it’s very common to see our lawns sprouting up with dandelions, daisies, and all sorts of other weeds too. To make things even more difficult, you can’t just throw any old weedkiller on there either or you’ll seriously damage your lawn. To deal with this specific issue, you need a weedkiller that is made intentionally to work on lawns, and that’s just what Roundup has brought us with this handy product. This is a safe multi-use product but it really shows its worth when mixed as a weedkiller with salt and washing up liquid. I have been using this for years and although there is a little work in mixing it correctly, it is affordable and very effective at killing weeds.However, for a pet-safe version, you still need to look for one which is Glyphosate-Free as not all Roundup products are. What happens if pets ingest weed killers? If you’re looking for an option as close as you can get to a standard weed killer, our recommendation is WeedKil’s Glyphosate-Free Solution, which is one of the only products on the market to advertise itself as child and pet friendly! Like a lot of acetic acid-based weedkillers, you need to keep an eye on the weather or this will get washed away and become useless, leaving you to start again. But if you choose your days right and it gets to dry in, the makers of this product claim it will last for up to a year, depending on the surface you applied the solution too and a few other factors. But finding a pet-safe solution is almost impossible and takes even more digging than you’re used to. Even some which are labelled as ‘pet friendly’ still contain ingredients that could potentially be hazardous. White vinegar is made from acetic acid which has been diluted in distilled water, whereas white wine vinegar is (unsurprisingly) made from white wine.

This is important because many weeds will regrow even after their leafy top growth has died off. Which Fast Weedkiller Kills the Roots?Pets and children can go into the garden once the applied weedkiller is fully dried, it becomes inactive once it touches the soil. Pros