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Building A Garden From Nothing At All
Gardening doesn’t have to be an expensive hobby. Some of the most beautiful gardens I’ve ever grown cost me nothing but sweat and sore muscles – and paid off with the kind of satisfaction you’ll never get from a paid-for landscape. Throughout the...
Laying Out Your Landscape Part Two
Once you have your landscape design on paper, now it’s time to transfer it to the actual location where you will be planting your plants. You will need a couple of tools in order to accomplish this. First it’s handy to have a long tape measure. For...
Low Cost Home Landscaping Tips
Installing and maintaining landscaping around your home can be a
costly undertaking. Even the perfect landscape can end up a
source of vexation instead of pleasure -- if it costs you more
than you can afford to install and keep up.
With...
Selecting the Right Water Feature for your Garden
Selecting the Right Water Feature for Your Garden
When contemplating a water feature for your garden it is important to reflect on the style of your landscaping and draw from this to select the right style of water feature to suit the...
The Pollen-Trapping Power of a Lawn
The Pollen-Trapping Power of a Lawn
Thomas Leo Ogren
Think twice before you give up your lawn.
Lawns are often blamed for causing allergies but the right lawn is actually a powerful allergy suppressor. The best lawn grasses either do not...
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How to Keep your Brick Patio Weed Free
Brick Patio Weed Control
In researching this article, I found one instance where a
homeowner was so incensed by the weeds in her patio that she set
fire to them with a blowtorch!
Luckily, several items provide better service as a weeding tool
and there are several better alternatives for brick patio weed
control.
Of course, the best method of brick patio weed control is proper
installation of your brick patio.
Start with an under-layment of pea gravel, topped by a layer of
sturdy landscape cloth and cover with it with a layer of sand.
This will give your brick patio a firm footing as well as cramp
the style of any weeds in the area.
Nevertheless, if your brick patio is already installed and
running rampant with weeds, here are some tips to help you
succeed in to keep it weed free without a lot of agonizing work.
First, to make your brick patio weed control plan a success,
implement your plan before weeds flower. This keeps weeds from
going to seed and helps make a short-term plan last for a longer
time.
For the following tip and other tips that involve weed dousing
of one sort or another, use a piece of cardboard or scrap of
Plexiglas to protect nearby plants.
One of the best ways to kill a vegetable of any kind is to cook
it.
Boiling water is a natural and very inexpensive weed-wilter and
works to kill most forms of annual weeds. It also kills or
weakens many types of perennial weeds.
A teakettle is your weeding tool. Fill it with water and bring
it to a boil. While
you're waiting (because a watched pot never
boils, you know!) go outside and cut the culprits down to their
crowns.
When the water begins to boil, grab the kettle (using a
potholder) and pour the water on the crowns of the weeds,
holding the kettle high enough only to avoid splashing. Killing
weeds with boiling water will also scald any biological
organisms that get splashed, but more will return as soon as the
soil cools.
Vinegar will kill most weeds. However, grocery store vinegar is
normally a 5% solution and is too weak to do the job.
Ten-percent vinegar will kill most weeds and usually is found
where canning and pickling supplies are sold.
A 20% solution of vinegar kills really stubborn weeds, but is
frequently more than twice as expensive as 10%. Try to control
the weeds with the 10% before you make the investment in a
stronger solution.
Spray the vinegar directly on the weeds, using the shield
mentioned above and taking care not to inhale fumes. You may
also want to wear gloves and eye protection as a further
safeguard.
In my experience these measures will keep all brick patio's free
from weed without a lot of back breaking work.
We love to share our gardening ideas and hear yours.
About the author:
Hans is an enthusiast gardener, he loves to share his gardening
ideas and hear about yours. He is one of the authors of :
http://www.gardening-guides.com and
http://www.patio-furniture-ideas.com/
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