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Lindsay Schramm learned of a weed-killing product that was “simple” and “nontoxic”: vinegar — horticultural vinegar, to be precise, which is so acidic that skin and eye protection is recommended when working with it. So Schramm decided to sell it in her nursery as an herbicide. She sold it for years. “It is a wonderful product that offers a safe alternative to the toxic products available anywhere,” said one of her customers. But Schramm promoted the vinegar with a YouTube video, and regulators saw it and stepped in. You can’t sell vinegar as a herbicide in Idaho, they said. It’s not registered as one. At first Schramm protested, but then she reached an agreement with the regulators: she’ll relabel the vinegar to stop branding it as a herbicide, and they’ll let her go back to selling it. (AC/Idaho Statesman) ...This is horticultural vinegar. It’s NOT a herbicide. We strongly recommend you NOT apply it to plants you do NOT want to kill.