using vinegar

[jackcrane]

We are going to build a small rose garden, in an area covered with Bermuda grass. If we use vinegar to kill the grass, will there be any residual effect on the roses? We plan to till the soil after the grass is gone.

[sylviagreen]

I did this last summer, & it's wonderful.
It took 2 applications to kill the bermuda (on 2 hot sunny days in August), then I dug out the dead or dying roots, & the soil was even easier to handle!
I planted roses in it almost immediately, & they're doing beautifully.
Be sure to wear hand & eye protection, & watch out for the fumes; you yard will smell like a pickle factory!

[Dchall_San_Antonio]

Be sure you understand that vinegar is a foliar spray, not a soil drench. If it hits the soil, you sprayed too much.

[Kathe Kitchens]

Make sure you mulch with shredded cedar at their feet when you get your roses in the ground. It will help keep the bermuda around it at bay and the roses comfortable. They love their heads hot and their feet cool. And whatever you do don't forget to mix horticultural cornmeal in your bed. It just about eliminates blackspot & other fungus problems that people who raise roses always seem to have. Hope you are getting some antique varieties; they just about raise themselves!