Weeds you can spend back-breaking hours pulling them out by hand, or you can rely on some inexpensive DIY recipes made with ingredients found around the house to get rid of them. Ruth Hartnup/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
Whether you re putting your green thumb to use in your garden or home landscaping, you re no doubt in a battle against weeds. Those pesky pain-in-the-you-know-whats for both people and plants cause many of us to turn to hardware store shelves for chemical-based weed killers. While it s true they pack a strong punch and do the trick, they can also cause a lot more harm to the environment than meets the eye. However, natural weed killers can do the same job as the chemical ones and with a lot less damage.