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Posted: Apr/17/2006 5:05 PM PST
I have several bricked flower beds all connected with a gravel path meandering around them and I was wondering how to keep weeds from growing up in the path? Every spring, I break my back howing and pulling up weeds. Especially chickweed from the path. During the blooming times I carefully spray weed killer along the path but in the spring its so bad! Any suggestions? |
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Posted: Apr/17/2006 5:21 PM PST
A tip I got from a neighbor, is pour boiling salt water onto the weeds in the cracks. Apparently the boiling water kills, and the salt makes it hard for them to grow? I plan on trying it this year!!! |
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Posted: Apr/17/2006 7:11 PM PST
Vinegar. Pour any type of vinegar in the cracks and it makes the soil so acidic that the weeds die. It lasts all season. |
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Posted: Apr/03/2007 4:52 PM PST
I have a gravel path between my raised beds, I also had problems with weeds. My solution was sprinkling salt along the paths, it worked, without using chemicals my path is weed free. Apparently the salt sterilizes the soil. |
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Posted: Apr/03/2007 4:54 PM PST
That is so true, I grew up in coastal NC and to get anything to grow was to create raised beds or containers and if you used ANY dirt of sand from the area you had to leach all the salt out, and that was not easy! |
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Posted: Apr/03/2007 8:51 PM PST
The vinegar didn't work for me but I had a guy tell me vinager and salt and just like buying roundup. |
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