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How to Kill Weeds Using Boiling Water

You don’t have to buy expensive herbicides to kill weeds in the cracks of a driveway or sidewalk. Simply pouring boiling water on the weeds will do the trick without toxic side effects.

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3 COMMENTS

Judy June 21, 2010 at 7:41 am
Boiling water did nothing on my weeds!
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Faze December 29, 2017 at 11:10 pm
Boiling water killed weeds in paving very quickly. I also used boiling water on Moptop (tree) suckers. They shriveled up very quickly and there was no impact on my beautiful tree.
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Peggy Whisnand March 21, 2018 at 6:28 pm
Can boiling water outed on torpedo grass kill it?
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