I’m a gardening expert – banish weeds with just two kitchen ingredients that’ll cost you less than $5

TWO simple inexpensive kitchen ingredients costing less than $5 will help banish weeds from your garden.

This trick and others will improve your gardening experience.

If stubborn weeds are growing in your gravel drives and paths as well as cracks and crevices, then vinegar and salt could help ease the problem.

Pouring a solution of white vinegar, one cup of table salt and one tablespoon of liquid dishwashing into the affected area will help kill weeds, according to a

The weed-killing liquid can also be funnelled into a plastic spray bottle and sprayed around the garden.

Drenching the weeds with the solution on a dry, sunny day makes it more likely that the unwanted greenery will die within a few days.

And to make matters better, experts believe the solution could kill the weeds indefinitely – meaning nothing else will grow back.

It comes just days after a gardening expert and mum, Sophie Valentine, revealed an ingenious use for old compost.

Instead of getting rid of it, she suggested using it as "mulch" to get rid of weeds in the garden.

"We all know how much we spend on fresh compost each year," she said.

"So, you can use your spent compost as a mulch on your borders," she told 

Other uses for old, spent compost include using it to improve the quality of your lawn.

Simply sprinkle it over the grass and use a garden rake to rake it all over the lawn.

Or, use it to grow carrots - as the vegetables need very few nutrients to survive and thrive.