2006-09-02 00:31:41 · 12 answers · asked by dundeeflower_2 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Use a flame thrower!!!!
2006-09-02 00:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several methods:
1. Salt and the like - try to avoid this as it poisons the soil.
2. Burning - either a flamethrower or what they call swaling, which is the use of controlled fires to get rid of gorse on moorland. Not advisable in dry conditions, and it won't necessarily do the trick: bracken, an extremely invasive fern, will recover from fires quicker than almost anything else, and crowd out the competition. Plus it only kills the top growth and not the root system. A short-term remedy that won't solve the problem for long.
3. Deprive it of light, by covering the ground with a membrane. The membrane (which goes under a variety of names like horticultural fleece) allows water in but not light. If you lay a sheet over the affected patch, plants find it much harder to grow through it. You can cut little x-shaped holes in it to plant flowers that you actually want to grow there.
4. Mulching: this is a layer of bark or other organic matter on top of the soil. Again, it deprives the weeds of light, though they can grow through it. Prettier than a membrane, you can lay it on top of any bare soil to restrict weeds. Also acts as insulation.
5. Fresh manure: this is also a mulch, but one with a difference, in that it burns most plants it touches and will definitely stop weeds. The vital thing is that it must be fresh - old dung will feed the weeds, not kill them. You can lay fresh compost around your prized plants, just don't let it touch them.
Hope one of these helps!
2006-09-02 17:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by alanwoollcombe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With persistant perenial weeds the only answer (other than zapping them) is to weed by hand. Remember even the smallest piece of white root left in the ground will grow again . . . . . it can takes years . . .every time you see a weed dig down and try to remove the WHOLE root . .eventually . . .maybe . .perhaps . . .you will reduce the number of weeds to a manageable level. If you do discover how to remove them and keep them away take out a patent. Any gardener would pay a fortune for a workfree solution to perennial weeds
2006-09-02 09:35:54 · answer #3 · answered by Kennock 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If digging out weeds by hand seems like a lot of hard work and you do not want to use a weedkiller try using a blowtorch. This will burn off the tops of the weeds, especially those residing in such as the cracks between crazy paving etc.
2006-09-02 07:37:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Salt water kills them but only use this on path cracks because this will also kill other plants. The good old shovel is your best weedkiller, dig 'em up. You can get biodegradeable, grenner weedkillers which don't poison weeds, they simply coat them so they can't breathe and they die. Try those.
2006-09-02 07:35:00 · answer #5 · answered by big_fat_goth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vinegar is away to kill weeds organically.
2006-09-02 11:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by Brandi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deprive then of light, by covering them over with a dense plastic sheet? And next year they will all be back. I am afraid you are fighting a losing battle
2006-09-02 08:31:17 · answer #7 · answered by kevin B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just keep digging them by hand. If you dont have any plants you want there use weedkiller, just check you can plant there after the weedkiller has been used
2006-09-05 06:24:31 · answer #8 · answered by Paul92 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep mowing them - with no leaves to produce food they eventually give up and die - just takes a while.
2006-09-04 09:37:07 · answer #9 · answered by Steel Lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a hoe
pull them out by hand
Flame gun
no chemicals used
2006-09-06 02:30:43 · answer #10 · answered by bbh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boiling water
flame wand
my wifes cooking
2006-09-02 07:35:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋