what is the best way to keep my weeds at bay?

Question

mainly on the pathways which are gravel

Answer 1

Keep on top of them and don't let them build up so they get too much. You can buy pre made weed killer sprays which are very good at killing them but you also have to do your bit to. Round Up is a good one.

Answer 2

By far the best way I have found is to place a weed preventing plastic sheet under the gravel. This sheet has tiny little holes in it to permit the passage of moisture, but not roots from plants and weeds.

Next, you will want to install some kind of divider to stop runners and shoots from crawling over into your nice gravel bed. There are several kinds of materials for that which range from rolls of aluminum about 6 inches wide to lengths of thick plastic in rolls. Make a slit in the edge of your path and insert these edge trimming guards so that about three inches remain exposed above the ground. Any root systems trying to grow over into the gravel can then be spotted rather easily and cut back as you mow the grass.

Last idea. When mowing, do not let the cut debris spray over into the gravel area. The blast of cut grass trimmings probably includes some grass and weed seeds. There is no sense in seeding a new crop of weeds in your gravel after all that work to keep them out.

Stop the most persistant weeds with Weed-B-Gone.

Answer 3

Personally speaking, I spray them with some sort of weed kill. There's two types you can get. If you're spraying them were there are no flowers or grass growing near by, such as in the middle of a gravel driveway, then you can get a type which will spread out a bit, it will kill any surrounding roots, or you can get a kind that if you were spraying right next to the edge of a driveway where a lawn might be growing then it goes on the weed only. It won't spread. It will say on the bottle which type it is, so read the label first.
I use Roundup because I have flat leaf weeds coming up in my stone patio and I can't get the root if I try to pull them.

If you don't want to try that you could always pull them if your pathway isn't too long, that would eventually get rid of them.

Answer 4

You should have laid a plastic membrane onto the earth before the gravel went down - If it can't take root it will die anyway. I've found the best way is to keep the gravel moving, just once every three weeks or so rake it over. If you are lazy just use weedkiller- sodium chlorate is the most effective and often the cheapest too as most pound shops carry it in stock.

Answer 5

its bloomin nuisance I'd same problem I'm guessing its a huge area you have ? maybe not, i had a small area and removed pebbles and re done weed control fabric with a stronger fabric and put pebbles down ,using weed killer is hard because it has to soak through loads of pebbles,but try some of that and really you do need to go out at least once a month and remove the weeds by hand, the fabric really helped me but I'm finding along the side they r popping up and if i neglect it it gets outta hand arghh. i hate weeds

Answer 6

hard work. lift all the gravel and put in a membrane(from any garden store) chuck the gravel back on. you will only get weeds that will rote to the sheet not up from the ground.if you get my meaning? the weeds you do ge pull up with little work.

Answer 7

If you have landscaping fabric under the gravel, than Pathclear or Weedol are good, if you don't, invest in a weed wand (buy on eBay), which uses butane cylinders, to wilt them.

Answer 8

From an environmental standpoint, it is always best to pull weeds the old fashioned way, making sure you get as much of the roots as possible. I never recommend using herbicides, for they are extremely toxic to the earth, and it's natural environment. The earth is way over polluted as it is.

Answer 9

Roundup if you accept the use of chemicals. If you don't, you pull them--one by one.

Answer 10

I think pulling them should work.