Roundup Ready-to-Use 1 Gallon Plus Weed & Grass Killer $4.98 on 4-21-18 ONLY - In-Store ONLY-- at Home Depot
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Sale price valid only $4.98 in stores on Saturday 4/21/2018 at Home Depot; cannot buy online and do in-store pickup; must by at an actual B&M Home Depot.
Limit 2 per customer.
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online says limited stock anywhere near me in CT
called store they have 150
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Please, please, please do not use Roundup or Monsanto products; it is not good for us or the environment.
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RodaleAlternatives: www.everydaycheapskate.com/home-and-family/hands-down-the-best-way-to-kill-weeds-and-its-not-roundup/
White vinegar. Ordinary distilled white vinegar with 5% acidity is cheap and works great. If you can find a higher acidity even up to 20%, it is going to work faster, but the end results will be the same.Table salt. Use the cheapest kind of salt you can find in the supermarket—not sea salt, rock salt, Epsom salts (not even close to table salt, trust me on that) or anything fancy. Just cheap iodized or un-iodized generic salt also known as sodium chloride (NaCl).
Dishwashing liquid. You will be using only a few drops, so the brand doesn’t matter. The purpose of the soap is to break the surface tension of the vinegar so it sticks to the weeds, forcing them to absorb it more readily.
WEED KILLER FOR AREAS TO BE REPLANTED. If you have weeds in areas you want to replant, do this: Fill an ordinary garden sprayer with white vinegar and add about one teaspoon liquid dishwashing soap like blue Dawn or Meyer’s Clean Day. Apply sprayer top and follow the instructions on the sprayer to get it ready to spray. That’s it. Seriously, it is that simple. Pick a hot, dry day to spray weeds until saturated, and they will wilt and shrivel up within hours so be careful to not spray anything you want to live. However, do not worry about the vinegar killing anything below the soil. Because vinegar will not harm the soil, you can safely replant the area once the weeds have died.
WEED KILLER FOR AREAS NEVER TO GROW AGAIN. To kill all vegetation in walkways, driveways and other areas where you don’t want any living thing to grow again, mix two cups ordinary table salt with one gallon of white vinegar. Do this in a container that is larger than one gallon capacity so you have room for the salt. Apply the lid and shake to dissolve the salt. Salt dissolves more quickly in vinegar than in water, but it takes a bit of doing. It may not completely dissolve, but that’s okay. Add 1 teaspoon of liquid dishwashing soap. Pour into an ordinary garden sprayer. Apply to weeds or grass on a dry, sunny day to areas you don’t want to see vegetation of any kind in the future.
The presence of salt in this recipe is what will eventually bring permanence to your weed killing. The salt will penetrate and leach into the soil. It may take several applications, but in time the presence of salt will “sterilize” the soil in this area so that nothing will grow there. Plan well before you go this permanent route.
These homemade weed killer recipes are not only cheap, both are completely non-toxic to humans and animals. In fact, except for the soap (not toxic, but not very tasty) you could have fun with the family tonight when you tell them you made the salad vinaigrette using 3 parts olive oil to 1 part weed killer
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@mom2jel :
I thought this was a deal site, not a political site.
Look, I think most people here know about Monsanto and RoundUp and their controversies. I’m just reporting a deal; there are plenty of other controversial companies such as fast-food, the fossil fuel industry, big Pharma, big Tobacco, et Al.
Considering Monsanto just got gobbled up by Bayer, they’re not going anywhere. So even if no one bought RoundUp, the mega monster company of BayerMonsanto would barely have any impact.
I appreciate that you listed an alternative to RoundUp. But there’s money in pesticides/herbisides, and as long as there are golf courses, these chemicals will continue to persist.
I’m guessing when someone posted a deal for Bayer Aspirin on Fatwallet, that deal got skewered by you as well?
You may or may not know, that Bayer, in conjunction with the Nazi regime did horrible experiments on Jews and others held against their will in Nazi concentration camps. Bayer makes Monsanto look like a Saint, in terms of ethics.
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@midwestusdealguy It may no be a political site, but it is a deal site. So if there are cheaper alternatives to the toxic chemicals that work just as well people should know about them. I know I learned something today.
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@mom2jel My landscape architect is married to a guy who works for the Nature Conservancy. When they have really invasive species they use Round Up.
Use it sparingly.
I tried the Jerry Baker thing for a while. Even bought chewing tobacco for the nicotine.
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@midwestusdealguy This is a deal site and roundup is a bad deal. Monsanto agrees to inherit Bayer’s baggage such as when they knowingly killed hemophiliacs by selling them blood products contaminated with HIV. Their aspirin is a overpriced. Generic aspirin is the better deal. Happy Earth Day
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and if you calculate the cost of $5 per gallon, the concentrate that you mix comes out to less than $4 per gallon.
Pick your poison.
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Here’s how bad RoundUp can be… I asked my husband to buy some Marsh Hay (no seed heads) to cover my strawberry bed garden for the winter. Instead, he brought home “ditch straw” that a friend of his cut from his hobby farm. That ditch straw received years of overspray from the farm fields and became immune to RoundUp and all other weed killer (general use and farm use).
The ditch straw that my idiot-husband put in my garden completely ruined it. It is a raised garden bed that had been filled with a clean, weed-free garden soil and was basically weed free for over 10 years. That ditch straw seeded itself, we could not get rid of it by any means… pulling it, various types of weed killer, the vinegar/salt/dishsoap killed the leaves but not the roots. We even covered the garden in heavy black plastic for a year to try and bake it out. I battled those farkin’ weeds for over 5 years and they only multiplied every year.
We finally had to remove all the soil and haul in new soil.My brother has had bee “colony collapse” twice with his bee hobby hives, the problem was his neighbor using RoundUp; once my brother talked to the neighbor and the RoundUp use was eliminated, he hasn’t had a problem the last three years.
My mother grew up on a farm (1940’s) and she raised me to be natural (“semi-organic”) as well. As a little girl in the summer, I took the nightly dishwater out to pour on the weeds growing in the cracks of the sidewalk or driveway. She gardened the same way her father farmed, very few chemicals were used. In my cheapness, the only chemicals I use in my garden is fertilizer.
This isn’t political, it’s using common sense. Think back to when you were growing up, there was a lot less “stuff” out there that now pretends to make our lives easier. I’ve been making a lot more items myself the last few years, including windshield washer fluid, washing machine detergent (powdered), glass cleaner, stinky shoe refresher balls, etc. I never set out to be a “granola cruncher”
but when I saw how few cents it takes to make my own cleaners that work just as well as the $$ stuff, I don’t look at myself as “granola-y” but more as a smart consumer saving money and the environment.
