Best Weed Killer

Imagine your garden is looking great with beautiful dandelions and roses perhaps, ferns and the like. You go through the motions of gardening chores you have to do and are happy with the result. Your yard lawn is absolutely gorgeous. Then a few days pass and you see a small green growth which does not correspond to your lawn and you are astonished. After a close look, you go 'arggghhh'! To your despair and annoyance, it is a weed growing, threatening to spoil your garden. Weed killer! You mumble to yourself. But which is the best one?

Best Weed Killers in the Market

There are several categories of killers available in the market for weed control. There are these synthetic or chemical based ones, then there are natural killers like vinegar, and there are herbicides. All of these work in their own way.

Synthetic or Chemical Based Weed Killers
These mostly come in the form of a spray. One such popular and effective weed killer is Round up. With Glyphosate isoproplymine salt as the active ingredient for killing the weed, this product is effective, but not without a catch.

First of all it has to be used very carefully and correctly. The second thing is that such type of killers cannot be expected to distinguish between weed and plants. So they can eliminate your plants as well. A foam or stream setting is available for this product for usage. Another such killer is Eliminator Dandelion & Clover Killer. This product is also used as a spray.

Herbicides
This is said to be the best amongst weed killers. The good part about them is that they can be selective as well, in addition to being non selective (sigh!). These nip the weeds in the bud, literally. What I mean is that these herbicides prevent the weed seeds from growing, in the dormant stage itself.

YES, the disadvantage is that they would not be effective once the weed starts growing. These are pre emergent herbicides. The post emergent herbicides can be used once the weeds start growing, but then they have to be used when the weeds are still growing and not when they are dry.

Natural Weed Killers
These are undoubtedly the best weed killers for lawns. They are vinegar, salt solution, boiling water, dish washing liquid and detergent. Further, you can use vinegar to kill weeds. Using this is economical as well as environment friendly.

Care should be taken that you use them with discretion as they tend to be non-selective. They will get rid of everything in their way, along with the weed. You can also think of adding sugar or molasses to the weeds. That will increase the level of micro organisms in the soil, killing weed in turn.

Apart from these there are a number of weed killers in the market. You can know about them through reviews available on the internet. A very important thing to remember is to use gloves and other safety gear, when you are using them.

To know which is the best weed killer for lawns, you must have a basic knowledge about the weed patterns. For instance, there are 3 types of weed, annual, biennial, or perennial.

Finally, if none of these seem to work, the best killers would be your hands! Just pull them out and get rid of the annoying weed! I sign off here!