When buying membrane, buy the quality stuff. Not that cheap rubbish from pound shops, wilkos etc that only lasts a year. I've had mine 5yrs now and it's still perfect; with only the odd weed pushing through.
Weeds in teh garden are like dust in the home. No matter how clean and neat and tidy you are they always come back because they are designed to survive which means they can propoagte themselves from tiny bits of root left in the soil and from seeds that have lain dormant for ages or sprout fresh form a flower you missed pulling.
Weeds in gravel are easy enough to pull by hand, especially after rain, or can be carefully scalped with a Dutch hoe or one of those lovely double edged Wolf heads. Regular pulling and hoeing will weaken them in the end. If you have a large area use a glyphosate based product but with care as it is indiscriminate in what it kills and leaves residues in the environment which will no doubt come back to haunt us all.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hello! The garden (and my achey bones) is suffering from the vile weather we have had, and an equally vile neighbour who disrupted one side of my garden and dumped groundelder-ridden soil all along one side when he dug a trench for his new fence, also stealing a few inches while he was at it... It put me off going outside at all really, I have only just started up again. He is currentlty rebuilding the house and cutting down all the trees in the neighbourhood, so it's never all that pleasant outside actually because of all the noise of either drilling or chainsawing. Son now 18 and doing A levels, 2 grandchildren, husband fine, arthritis worse - how are you?
Wolf garden tools system. You buy handles of varying lengths and then attach the head needed for what you're doing - hoes, rakes, brooms, lawn edgers, cultivators, pruning saw and many more. Have a google and then go checkout a good garden centre or DIY store.
Jro - I'll start a new thread rather than go further astray on this one..
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
which is also excellent for breaking down soil in veg plots, like a hand rotavator. I think I paid £40 for two handles and two heads in the 90s, they are all still going strong.
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When buying membrane, buy the quality stuff. Not that cheap rubbish from pound shops, wilkos etc that only lasts a year. I've had mine 5yrs now and it's still perfect; with only the odd weed pushing through.
It's pricey.....but worth every penny.
I've not tried this before but on this ladys' web site she uses vinegar. http://www.agardenforthehouse.com/2011/06/got-weeds-use-vinegar-not-roundup/
Weeds in teh garden are like dust in the home. No matter how clean and neat and tidy you are they always come back because they are designed to survive which means they can propoagte themselves from tiny bits of root left in the soil and from seeds that have lain dormant for ages or sprout fresh form a flower you missed pulling.
Weeds in gravel are easy enough to pull by hand, especially after rain, or can be carefully scalped with a Dutch hoe or one of those lovely double edged Wolf heads. Regular pulling and hoeing will weaken them in the end. If you have a large area use a glyphosate based product but with care as it is indiscriminate in what it kills and leaves residues in the environment which will no doubt come back to haunt us all.
I can vouch for the Wolf head, it slices straight through a path in minutes. Then just go back along the path and collect the debris.
Hello Jro. How are you and yours, and your garden?
Hello! The garden (and my achey bones) is suffering from the vile weather we have had, and an equally vile neighbour who disrupted one side of my garden and dumped groundelder-ridden soil all along one side when he dug a trench for his new fence, also stealing a few inches while he was at it... It put me off going outside at all really, I have only just started up again. He is currentlty rebuilding the house and cutting down all the trees in the neighbourhood, so it's never all that pleasant outside actually because of all the noise of either drilling or chainsawing. Son now 18 and doing A levels, 2 grandchildren, husband fine, arthritis worse - how are you?
Thanks guys- really enjoying reading all your responses.. -
what is this "Wolf head" ? that you speak of?
Wolf garden tools system. You buy handles of varying lengths and then attach the head needed for what you're doing - hoes, rakes, brooms, lawn edgers, cultivators, pruning saw and many more. Have a google and then go checkout a good garden centre or DIY store.
Jro - I'll start a new thread rather than go further astray on this one..
It's a tool system that is not cheap, but I love it. It has interchangeable heads to fit different length handles. The head I use is this one
https://www.garden4less.co.uk/wolf-garden-soil-miller-dam.asp
which is also excellent for breaking down soil in veg plots, like a hand rotavator. I think I paid £40 for two handles and two heads in the 90s, they are all still going strong.