Pet Friendly Weed Killer???

[Rich Riddle]

Is there such a thing as pet-friendly weed killer? I have one dog that treats a lawn like a salad bar. Because of her, I don't want to even spray the front yard with weed killer even though the fence keeps her in the back.

[Wade Lippman]

I am a firm believer in just spraying the weeds. Reducing the amount used by 90% has to be good.

[Matt Day]

Rich - just an observation, but you have A LOT of projects going on right now! Maybe we need a Sub forum for all your threads.

[Rich Riddle]

Matt,

That's an idea. The weed killer is a delegated task though. Just not sure if a pet-safe one exists.

[Jim Koepke]

My pet safe weed killer is called a fork. A small shovel can also help.

We have free ranging chickens and I don't like to spray anything least it ends up in my eggs for breakfast.

BTW, sometimes we stop fast forwarding just to watch that GEICO commercial. Wish our chickens would send us some pictures whilst they are out and about.

jtk

[Mike Cutler]

Unfortunately, it's a hoe.
I hear where you're coming from. I have a dog that likes to drink the water off the driveway in the winter, so I can't use any type of salt or de-icing products or she "yarks up in" the house.

[Rich Riddle]

Listening to the last couple bits of advices I went with a Fiskars unit that removes them. It's almost all dandelions here we don't want. The wife likes the "weeds" that look like little flowers. Here is a link to the one we bought. It gets great reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030MIHAU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[George Bokros]

I thought I heard or read somewhere that vinegar will kill dandelions, but don't know if it is pet safe. As far as the other weeds go I don't know of anything pet safe.

http://www.weekendgardener.net/lawn-care/dandelion-control-organic-050905.htm

Down about the middle of the page they cite vinegar with 20 - 25% acidity as a option.

Here is another suggestion of vinegar as an option.

http://landscaping.about.com/od/weedsdiseases/qt/vinegar_weeds.htm

And one more.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/homemade-natural-dandelion-weed-killer-44593.html

[Larry Frank]

Many of the lawn products are safe once they dry but can not find much on eating the grass.

I use the weed killers but do spot treatment and keep dogs off for at least 24 hours. I will spray part of the yard one time are then do the other later.

With my dogs I would not risk it if the dogs were eating grass....probably would wait at least a week or more. I could not live with myself if the dogs got really sick because of this.

[Greg R Bradley]

Horticultural Vinegar will kill weeds and any grass it hits. Pets or wildlife won't eat any or at least not much because of the bitter taste. It is basically extra strong white vinegar, preferably with some surfactants in it. It can be bought for about $10 per gallon at the right places.

[William Adams]

I use a piece of rock salt which I apply to the open dandelion root after tearing it off w/ the ground.

Other weeds get dug up.

[Chris Padilla]

Goats...but they won't keep to only the weeds. :)

[Myk Rian]

Is there such a thing as pet-friendly weed killer?
1 gallon vineger
2 cups epson salts
1/4 cup Dawn dish detergent

I was amazed. It killed everything it was sprayed on in 2 days. My Wife found the recipe someplace. It really does work.

[Beau Cassidy]

This is just one I found by looking at doyourownpestcontrol.com. There are others.

http://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/avenger-weed-killer-concentrate

[Jim Becker]

Concentrated vinegar.

[Marc Seguin]

I've used vinegar very successfully as well. The other one which is great for sidewalk/pavers where you have weeds growing out of cracks is just dumping a pot of boiling water on them. In the garden where the weeds are interspersed with vegetables we can't boil or vingarize then it's mechanical removal with a tool.

[Ken Massingale]

I still think goats is the best solution.
Heck, Amazon is renting them via Amazon Local!

http://hellogiggles.com/amazon-goats/

[William Adams]

Thing is, I’ve been pretty successful at eliminating dandelions, buckhorn, uncommon plantain — left the creeping Charlie and violets — the remaining weed problem is wild garlic — know anyone who’ll rent pigs?

Apparently that was how my grandfather dealt w/ wild garlic in a field (don’t want cows and such eating it ’cause it taints the meat and milk) — he’d run pigs through first and the wild garlic is their preferred food.....

[Beau Cassidy]

Another trick for getting rid of weeks such as crabrass is sprinkling baking soda on them. I tried it and it does work. It will kill everything it comes in contact with, too.