We have quite a lot of crazy paving in our garden. (It was laid by a
previous occupier)

It's costing us a lot for weedkiller to keep the weeds at bay.

Is there something cheaper (& hopefully more effective) than the
commercially available weedkillers that we could use to keep the cost down
?.

TIA,

woodglass...

"woodglass" wrote in message
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We have quite a lot of crazy paving in our garden. (It was laid by a
previous occupier)

It's costing us a lot for weedkiller to keep the weeds at bay.

Is there something cheaper (& hopefully more effective) than the
commercially available weedkillers that we could use to keep the cost
down
?.

TIA,

woodglass...

I suggest that you search www.google.com for: killing weeds on crazy
paving. It will reveal an abundance of information on your subject
and hopefully it will be helpful. Pathclear appears to be very
ineffective these days.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

On Sun, 31 May 2009 20:20:37 +0100, woodglass wrote:

We have quite a lot of crazy paving in our garden. (It was laid by a
previous occupier)

It's costing us a lot for weedkiller to keep the weeds at bay.

Weed burner, you don't really say how large an area you have but a small
hand held gas powered one would deal with a paths and a 4 x 5m patio no
problem. You don't need to incinerate the weeds the flash heat damages the
leaves and they die. No plant can survive having it's top growth destroyed
on a regular basis.

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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009 20:20:37 +0100, woodglass wrote:

We have quite a lot of crazy paving in our garden. (It was laid by a
previous occupier)

It's costing us a lot for weedkiller to keep the weeds at bay.

Weed burner, you don't really say how large an area you have but a small
hand held gas powered one would deal with a paths and a 4 x 5m patio no
problem. You don't need to incinerate the weeds the flash heat damages the
leaves and they die. No plant can survive having it's top growth destroyed
on a regular basis.

If you can be confident that the stuff won't leach across into
cultivated soil then Sodium Chlorate will do the business rather
effectively. Legal and cheap the effect lasts about 6 - 9 months.
rjbl

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On Sun, 31 May 2009 20:20:37 +0100, woodglass wrote:

We have quite a lot of crazy paving in our garden. (It was laid by a
previous occupier)

It's costing us a lot for weedkiller to keep the weeds at bay.

Weed burner, you don't really say how large an area you have but a small
hand held gas powered one would deal with a paths and a 4 x 5m patio no
problem. You don't need to incinerate the weeds the flash heat damages the
leaves and they die. No plant can survive having it's top growth destroyed
on a regular basis.

A waste of time and money, you have to keep doing it for months, maybe even
years, better to use something like sodium chlorate.

Alan

On May 31, 9:20*pm, "woodglass" wrote:
We have quite a lot of crazy paving in our garden. (It was laid by a
previous occupier)

It's costing us a lot for weedkiller to keep the weeds at bay.

Is there something cheaper (& hopefully more effective) than the
commercially available weedkillers that we could use to keep the cost down
?.

TIA,

woodglass...

I suggest you consider removing the existing joints and re-doing the
pointing. 4 parts sand to 1 part cement and this time with a polished
raised peak (but no higher than the stone level obviously), rather
than a soil and debris collecting, weed welcoming trough.

Thanks for your input everyone - I'm going for the sodium chlorate option...

woodglass wrote:
Thanks for your input everyone - I'm going for the sodium chlorate option...


I have a large paviour area. Having tried sodium Chlorate, yes it kills
the weed, but they are back with a few weeks. I find pathclear more
effective, but the price!

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Broadback wrote:
woodglass wrote:
Thanks for your input everyone - I'm going for the sodium chlorate option...

I have a large paviour area. Having tried sodium Chlorate, yes it kills
the weed, but they are back with a few weeks. I find pathclear more
effective, but the price!

Try half-strength glyphosate. Seriously. Sodium chlorate DOESN'T
kill many weeds, but merely burns their tops off.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Broadback wrote:
woodglass wrote:
Thanks for your input everyone - I'm going for the sodium chlorate option...

I have a large paviour area. Having tried sodium Chlorate, yes it kills
the weed, but they are back with a few weeks. I find pathclear more
effective, but the price!

Try half-strength glyphosate. Seriously. Sodium chlorate DOESN'T
kill many weeds, but merely burns their tops off.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

I didn't find sodium chlorate very cost effective. We've got a very long
gravel drive and it took a whole tub to treat the drive. The weeds were
back a few weeks later. Superficially glyphosate looks very expensive -
I bought five litres of the stuff for around £30. So far it has lasted
nearly three years - and it has killed a LOT of weeks over that time.

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"Broadback" wrote in message
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woodglass wrote:
Thanks for your input everyone - I'm going for the sodium chlorate
option...
I have a large paviour area. Having tried sodium Chlorate, yes it kills
the weed, but they are back with a few weeks. I find pathclear more
effective, but the price!

Isn't there another "slight" problem with NaClO3 in that the dead vegetation
is more flammable? I saw an uncle burn off the dead weeds in his drive
after that treatment and I recall that the flames spread very, very quickly,
almost explosively.
Graham