Killing all plant life on gravel driveway (flowers, growing, trees)
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What is the best way to kill all plant life on a gravel driveway without using Roundup? I prefer to avoid using glyphosate.
An easy and inexpensive weed killer can be made with equal parts of Epsom salts, Dawn liquid, and white vinegar. Play around with the quantities. This works and they don't come back!
An easy and inexpensive weed killer can be made with equal parts of Epsom salts, Dawn liquid, and white vinegar. Play around with the quantities. This works and they don't come back!
Um, EPSOM salts is magnesium sulfate. It is a FERTILIZER.
OP, either pull by hand or use Roundup. Roundup will not accumulate in the soil. Or grade your driveway with a blade.
"Personally I just use 50 lb bags or road salt, and skip all of the mixing. People will yell at me and say that salt will kill the soil permanently, but this is not true. I used to dump it on my gravel driveway each year to kill the weeds that were tough as nails. Some always reseeded back a year later, proving that salt will not render soil infertile permanently; it will work as a long term weed killer, however."
Just use Round-up, it's not gonna' kill you and it has no residual effect on the environment. Quick & e-z.
Keep fooling yourself. Read the super fine print, it says to don plastic gloves to remove the dead weeds, then to put them in a plastic bag and dispose of in a garbage can. Roundup is not safe, the producers of it want you to think so, just like they did with DDT, they said it was safe.
Use the rock salt that they use on roads in the winter time. Spread it just like you're trying to get rid of snow or ice, but in the summer. It will kill every weed within 1 week. In a pinch I have even used bags of salt for the water softener and it also works well. You can stock up on 50 lb bags of it around X-Mas to use in the spring.
I have used this method for years with great success, and you can avoid toxic herbicides this way, that are really not safe, regardless of what the Monsanto chemical lovers say.
Salt works as a long term weed killer, but will not ruin your land or render it sterile like someone will come along and say here shortly. I always new weeds come back the next spring and try to reseed on the same gravel.
Do NOT use Epsom Salt. I keep seeing this get passed around on the web this year for some reason by people with no actual experience using it. Epsom Salts are FERTILIZER for plants.
I have owned acreage for most of my life, try to never use toxic chemicals, and this is what I have found works best and is the easiest over the years. No mixing, boiling, or loading up sprayers with homemade solutions. Just dump the bag in a spreader or spread it by hand right out of the bag.
Use the rock salt that they use on roads in the winter time. Spread it just like you're trying to get rid of snow or ice, but in the summer. It will kill every weed within 1 week. In a pinch I have even used bags of salt for the water softener and it also works well. You can stock up on 50 lb bags of it around X-Mas to use in the spring.
I have used this method for years with great success, and you can avoid toxic herbicides this way, that are really not safe, regardless of what the Monsanto chemical lovers say.
Salt works as a long term weed killer, but will not ruin your land or render it sterile like someone will come along and say here shortly. I always new weeds come back the next spring and try to reseed on the same gravel.
Do NOT use Epsom Salt. I keep seeing this get passed around on the web this year for some reason by people with no actual experience using it. Epsom Salts are FERTILIZER for plants.
I have owned acreage for most of my life, try to never use toxic chemicals, and this is what I have found works best and is the easiest over the years. No mixing, boiling, or loading up sprayers with homemade solutions. Just dump the bag in a spreader or spread it by hand right out of the bag.
I use that mixture all of the time. When combined with white vinegar and dawn - it does work. My garden and path are weed free.
Do what we did for our gravel driveway: lay black plastic sheeting down.
Absolutely nothing will grow, if sunlight and rain and air can't get to it. Pretty cheap, too, and no nasty chemical residue. Just 'shave' all the vegetation down with a mower or weed-wacker first.
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Just use Round-up, it's not gonna' kill you and it has no residual effect on the environment. Quick & e-z.
