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I poured pure white vinegar on my gravel path to kill the weeds: when I dug just beneath the surface a month later, I understood what I had really destroyed

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I poured pure white vinegar on my gravel path to kill the weeds: when I dug just beneath the surface a month later, I unde...

Pouring white vinegar on a gravel path seems harmless—until you dig beneath the surface a month later. What looks like a weed-killing win masks an invisible chemical assault on soil life, earthworm populations, and microbial ecosystems that took years to establish.