Sustainability tip of the Week 3

This week's tip comes from Pat Calvert (Upper James Riverkeeper). We all work hard on our flower beds and gardens in our yards! While trying to establish new plants we all spend a lot of time fighting weeds!!! Even though many organic farms agree that Roundup can be used, it is so hard to use those chemicals in the place where our family plays and eats. Two years ago Pat told me a solution that I doubted and failed to try, but this summer after investing so much in building a bay friendly yard I gave it a try. Replace your weed killer in your sprayer with vinegar, yes WHITE VINEGAR! It's amazing! After one day of spraying weeds in our flower gardens, you could see that the weeds were starting to die. Sustainability is built on three foundations, equity, economics, and environment. Placing vinegar in your weed sprayer is better for the people in your household by reducing chemicals, less expensive, and better for the environment!!! You have to try it, you won't believe it!! Thanks Pat!!