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Any tips or advice - stone wall weeding

WildliferWildlifer Posts: 52
in Problem solving
As it says really, we have a beautiful stone wall in our new to us back garden which we are slowly bringing back to life, it’s been neglected for a long time and some pretty heavy duty grass has taken up residence. I have a patio weeding tool and intend to do it the old fashioned way but wondered if anyone has any tips or advice? 

Thanks so much 


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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Weed carefully would be my tip as that isn't a wall but stacked stones that don't look very secure!
    You could cut back the grass by 3/4 and then apply weedkiller. 
     I suspect the roots of the largest clumps are going to be hard to get out manually but you mught be able to cut them out in chunks, a bread knife is  good for this or a hori knife but untill you start you won't know which method is best.
  • WildliferWildlifer Posts: 52
    K67 said:
    Weed carefully would be my tip as that isn't a wall but stacked stones that don't look very secure!
    You could cut back the grass by 3/4 and then apply weedkiller. 
     I suspect the roots of the largest clumps are going to be hard to get out manually but you mught be able to cut them out in chunks, a bread knife is  good for this or a hori knife but untill you start you won't know which method is best.
    Thankyou! I won’t use weed killer, I garden without chemicals but happy to do some hard work! I did suspect that it’d be very much the way my grandmother showed me when I was a child. Hopefully it’ll clear the way for some nice alpines 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    One of those 'life's too short to not just use glyphosate' situations for me I'm afraid. I wouldn't have a clue otherwise, other than to dismantle the wall to get at the roots.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • WildliferWildlifer Posts: 52
    The problem is I don’t want to kill the other plants in here. Maybe one I can paint onto it?
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Think you can buy it as a gel. Use gloves and rub it along the leaves.
    If you cant get gel I am sure I read about mixing it with some wallpaper paste but I might be wrong!
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