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Weeding block paving

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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    A never-ending story as has been stated.  I spray with weedkiller, or hot water, or salt, or salt and vinegar etc I also have a heated blowy tool.  Once dead, a scrub with a wire brush.  I don't let them get as big as they are in the photo!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    tui,nor do we, but the flaming neighbours do,then they just trim the tops off.....and we all know what happens when you 'prune' something!!!
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    I also use boiling water for a quick result in a small area.  
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Who can afford to boil water these days? 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    debs, I did think of adding a statement like that.

    But if the weeds are close to your kitchen door, and you have some surplus water in the kettle, then the extra cost is only the water.  Is it worth an experiment to see how cold you can let the water go?  I doubt it.  But would guess 60ºC.

    I might, mischievously, add: who can afford decorative gardening these days?  But most of us still do.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    The problem with vinegar is that you will kill any worms in the vicinity as well.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Weedkiller is by far the best all round solution, so I don't know why you want to do anything but. 
    Any noxious acid and salt solutions are poisoning the soil below. Not only for the plants, but everything else too. 

    People need to learn to stop striving for perfection in an unperfect World.

  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Does weed killer not poison the soil below? As I say I use a sharp knife and elbow grease, it’s a fiddly job but curiously satisfying 
  • All sprayed on weedkillers act on the leaf, they don't effect the soil at all.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    So they don’t kill the roots? 
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