{"id":89498,"date":"2021-08-20T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=89498"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:10:30","slug":"make-apply-natural-herbicide-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/make-apply-natural-herbicide-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Make & Apply Natural Herbicide For Invasive Plants (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hobby farms should be productive, sure. But that doesn’t mean your slice of paradise can’t be nice to look at, too. That’s why I recently added some sunflowers around our homestead. The flowers bring some summer color to my Texas farm.<\/p>\n

They’ll also feed local birds and other wildlife later, in fall.<\/p>\n

The sunflowers are growing great. But unfortunately, so is johnsongrass<\/a>, an aggressive invasive plant that tends to outgrow everything else.<\/p>\n

I have to kill the johnsongrass. But to preserve my sunflowers, I need a selective approach that will take out the invasive without hurting the sunflowers.<\/p>\n

Spot spraying the grass is the obvious approach. But what I spot spray matters, too, as I don’t want to use a synthetic herbicide like glyphosate in this area. So I mixed up a batch of natural herbicide to take care of the problem.<\/p>\n

Make Your Own Natural Herbicide<\/h2>\n

The natural herbicide I use is easy to mix up in the kitchen. You probably have the ingredients in your pantry already. Here’s what you need:<\/p>\n