Unwanted vegetation commonly referred to as weeds can be very troublesome in a well maintained garden or surrounding area such as a patio. If you've spent lots of hours working on your home garden and have great pride in it then an unsightly weed can ruin your hard work. There's lots of varying types of weed killer products currently available and ensuring that you are using the correct one is very very important. Choosing a non-selective weed killer when you actually wanted a selective one van have disastrous results. Not only will it rid your garden of weeds, if used incorrectly or you have chosen the wrong product it can rid your garden of all of its plant life whether it is flowers, plants or your lawn.
Weed killer can be purchased from most gardening shops, hardware stores, supermarkets as well as online. Household weed killer will usually come in a plastic pump trigger spray container which makes it very easy to apply as well as being accurate during application. Non-selective usually contains a chemical called Glyphosate and is the most powerful and also the cheapest to purchase. The difference between the two is very important when buying the correct product. Non-selective will most likely kill all plant life that it is applied to or touches irrelevant of whether that is flowers or weeds.
If you have got weeds that are growing in the middle of your grass lawn that you want to get rid of, don't use non-selective weed killer to try to kill them as it will also kill your lawn. The non-selective product is the best for unwanted weed growth on pathways, your patio or drive but if you have weeds on your lawn or in your flower beds then use it very carefully or use a selective weed killer instead. This will kill weeds on your lawn without killing your grass and is usually applied from a spray container or in granules.