My neighbor's grass doesn't grow in the seams of her paving slabs. I found out what the secret is and decided to share it
Many summer residents know how difficult it is to get rid of grass between paving slabs. Fighting it with your bare hands is doomed to failure. This year I decided to do things differently. I watered the shoots with saline solution, and a few days later I swept away the dried weeds with a broom. I’ve been admiring the clean paths for the second week.
Recipe for grass on paths
Before voicing the recipe for the miracle remedy, I consider it necessary to say that I did not come up with it myself. I was always surprised by the paving slabs on the neighboring property. For 3 years not a single blade of grass was seen on it. “Well, they’re clearly using newfangled herbicides,” I thought. But the neighbor denied my speculations. It turned out that the herbal remedy she uses can easily be made with your own hands. There are a minimum of ingredients, and so is the waste.
So, the recipes:
- Solution No. 1. Vinegar 70% (200 ml), table salt solution (1 tablespoon of salt per 600 ml of warm water), 0.5 tbsp. spoons of liquid soap or other detergent. Mix thoroughly and water the weeds.
- Solution No. 2. Table rock salt (2 kg), hot water (5–6 l). Pour hot water over the salt and stir thoroughly. Treat tile seams.
I didn’t have acetic acid at my dacha, and it’s dangerous to work with it. But salt reserves remained. Therefore, I decided to use the second recipe (although my neighbor noted the first as more effective). I'm telling you about my impressions.
How I removed grass from paving slabs
After our conversation with my neighbor, I immediately began preparing the saline solution. But I encountered certain difficulties. Salt in such a high concentration is in no hurry to dissolve. You need to take not just warm, but very hot water. And it’s better not to pour all the salt at once, but to dilute it in portions. In this video, the summer resident talks very sensibly about this method:
I did roughly the same thing as in the video:
- I took a large (5 l) water bottle.
- I poured 1 kg of table salt and poured 3 liters of boiling water.
- Shake it up and wait 1 minute for the undissolved salt to settle.
- I poured the first portion of the brine solution (no sediment!) into the garden sprayer.
- I added a second kg of salt and another 3 liters of hot water to the sediment.
- Shaked it again and poured it into the tank.
- A large sediment remained, which I dissolved again (added 1 liter of water) and poured into a spray bottle.
- I then primed the sprayer and began processing.
- I sprayed the product pointwise, trying not to get it on the cultivated plants.
- After watering all the weeds generously, I began to wait for the result.
P.S. Those who do not have a garden sprayer can spray the weeds in the joints with a solution from a watering can.
How it works?
Salt dries out the grass. I'm not a botanist, but I came to exactly the same conclusions. Very quickly, literally after 3 hours, the weed fell to the tiles, and by the evening it began to turn yellow. I didn’t see what happened to him the next day. We returned to the dacha a few days later. By this point, only dry yellow bushes were sticking out from the seams of the tiles. They pulled out of the ground with ease. But I decided not to waste time. It is much faster and easier to remove all this thatch with a garden broom. 10 minutes - and the paving slabs are clean.
To date, 2 weeks have passed since the salt treatment. No new weeds have been spotted yet. But the neighbor says they will appear. She uses the solution three times over the summer.
3 important rules
The method has disadvantages. The first and very important one is damage to the tile itself. Both salt and acid corrode concrete.
You can use homemade solutions, but wisely:
- On the 2-3rd day, wash off the salt from the tiles. By this time, the main goal will be achieved, the weed will die. After cleaning it, salt is not needed - it will only act to harm. You need to rinse the path with water from a hose or pour it from a bucket.
- Carry out treatment in the first half of the day. Salt, combined with the sun, burns the grass faster. If you pour the solution on it in the evening, the result may not be as effective.
- Make sure there is no forecast for rain. Even a little rain can ruin your efforts. For the solution to be effective, it must remain on the weed for at least 3 hours.
Of course, these are all temporary measures. It is impossible to remove grass so that it does not grow at all. Sand between the seams is a completed stage. Weeds grow great in sand! I have heard that even a cushion of crushed stone and a concrete screed do not stop them (only for a while). Grass makes its way under the tiles, lifting them and deforming them.
The only thing that is 100% effective is laying tiles on geotextiles, crushed stone, geotextiles, and then sand. But for now there is neither the means nor the desire to re-lay the path. I will continue to use the saline solution, maybe I’ll also try vinegar.
Finally, if you choose the first recipe, you must wear rubber gloves. Acetic acid at 70% concentration leaves painful chemical burns. It cannot be replaced with ordinary table vinegar: it is too weak for the weed.
Good luck and clean, weed-free paths!
First, it was necessary to etch the installation site, then lay geotextiles and there would be no grass. It’s true that this topic wouldn’t even exist.
For grass, soil (sand) that is in the seams is sufficient; hetextile will not help.
Igor, you are an idiot theorist! After this treatment and a couple of good rains, the grass begins to grow again. If there is even a small crack between the tiles, then over time it is filled with dirt and introduced seeds. How can geotextiles help? Cover the tiles on top? Keep your idiotic advice to yourself.
Dust and sand get into the seams. Once moisture gets there, the seeds of dandelion and other plants quickly germinate.
The best chemistry "Hurricane"
about geotextiles is 100 percent correct... just pour sand mixed with 500 cement onto the laid tiles... carefully sweep it into the joints with a brush... and then spread some water over the finished carpet... and you will be happy...
Alyoshenka about the sofa theorist... geotextiles are placed on the floor under any tile... and more than one layer... and the CPS is planned to be zero/if you know what it is/geotextiles from germination and actually protect...
Have you tried napalm - an extremely effective mixture?! Or should we roll the entire area into asphalt or fill it with concrete? And so that not a single blade of grass...
I first treated it with a powerful herbicide, then laid down agro span, then a layer of sand and laid tiles, everything is fine, the weed doesn’t climb, but between the cracks I sowed grass so it’s more beautiful, you trample on it, you walk and fuck it
If you put a black film and tiles on it, the grass will not grow. Our gazebo stands on a pedestal like this, and they put an old, used film under the tiles, they all put the gazebo on it, this was in 2014, there is no grass in the gazebo at the moment, there is a lot around the gazebo, the black film under the slab does not allow grass to grow
This is all bullshit. The grass will always grow.
I connect the Karcher and under strong pressure. I wash the grass along with the soil. The most effective way. All the rest. This is temporary.
You can pour boiling water over the seams.
Igor, you are wrong! everything will be done using technology, double geotextiles, but after a while weeds will definitely grow, because weed seeds fall with the wind, fall and germinate in the seams!
Grass begins to grow in the soil that has accumulated between the tiles. Geotestil in this case is a waste of money and soil etching.
It is enough to make a bedding of sand and cement on dry ground, the grass will not grow for about ten years, maybe a little less... Tested from my own experience...
Geotextiles help against washing out sand from under tiles, but not against grass, because grass often grows due to seeds dispersed through the air. The seeds get into the seams between the tiles and this is the result - grass grows and that’s it. So the described methods are good, but the tiles deteriorate, so you need to use them where the grass has already sprouted strongly. And so pull out the grass between the tiles more often. But in addition to grass, moss grows in the seams. I simply cut it out with the sharp end of a Fokin hoe, sweep it all away and burn it.
Of course, everything is labor-intensive, but it cannot be otherwise.
Good luck to all!
I wanted to write about this, but you beat me to it...
Ordinary boiling water will neutralize your herb in the evening.
I have the following layers under the paving slabs: clay, SIBUR, half a meter of sand, SIBUR, gravel, tiles. The grass is growing beautifully. I don’t risk watering with salt, it’s a pity for geotextiles, I just pull out the grass.
I bought a gas burner and a bottle, I burn the grass 3 times over the summer, but the base of the tile does not deteriorate and the grass does not grow
Just treat with Roundup or Agrokiller, all summer residents know this
The easiest way to get rid of grass in tile joints is to use a systemic pesticide. For example "Gloria". Reliable tool. Use salt, vinegar, etc. - only pollute the soil.
My neighbors, idiots, watered their plot with simuzione! Also systemic fuck! All my fruit trees died! You're an asshole! After 2 years, I also added simuzin to their barrel of water! The “fertile layer” is being removed!
An effective method for me is to burn it with a torch. The Germans suggested it, and I found a video on the Internet. I bought an extended nozzle in the store for 999 rubles and a gas canister for 350 rubles. Previously I tried salt, vinegar, tornado poisoning, but it turned out to be more effective to burn it out.Let's see the result next year. The Germans assured that once every 3 years they now pass a heating pad over the tiles between the seams only for prevention.
Lay black film underneath, and then 3-4 cm of sand and only then paving slabs. Weeds do not grow in the dark under black film. And there will be no problems with them either for the 2nd year or for the 22nd.
Over time, dust, sand, and earth get clogged into the seams between the tiles. This is where the seeds fall and germinate. So neither geotextiles nor concrete will help. Only regular treatment, mechanical or chemical.
Only weed seeds have the ability to fly. the seeds are retained in the joints of the tiles and grow
at least one smart one was found
The advice is useless. Grass grows mainly due to the fact that seeds fall into the seams between the tiles. And all the recommendations about geotextiles, all sorts of films for the base, this is all about nothing. It doesn’t work even if you put the tiles directly on the ground. In this case, it can protect against direct germination of grass. But as a rule, this is not the problem. The paths are made using the technology of urban sidewalks. A trough, sand, crushed stone, 12 cm of concrete and then tiles were laid on the sand-cement mixture. And the result. The structure has stood for 20 years without any deformation. But with grass, in the sixth year the first signs of germination already appeared. Dust and dirt accumulate in the seams and when seeds enter, growth begins. This is what we are fighting against. We do without chemicals, mostly mechanically; a mud washing machine helps a lot.
Nonsense!
You are apparently a theorist or disingenuous. And the text is necessary, black, and according to the rules the tiles are perfect, but after 3 years the dandelions take their royal place in the middle of the paths.
But it’s easier with weed poison than with salt and acid. And you won’t know. The topic is about nothing
Dust and seeds that have flown into the cracks will delight you with fresh herbs no later than next year!
Regardless of how many layers of film you lay under the tiles.
There is a salt lake near us. Salt is mined from it. This is how the grass grows on the shore. Not fat, but growing. There are also lakes that are less salty, but there are no fish. So the grass feels good there too. Reeds actually grow in water.
the tiles have already been laid, this is advice for those who lay the tiles and not for those who want to get rid of the plant
In cities, roads are covered with salt all winter. and in the summer the grass on the roadsides is then mowed
We laid the tiles on geotextiles, covered them with sand, and the grass sprouts. It is impossible to prevent seeds from getting into the gaps between the tiles. Nature is omnipotent!
We also struggled with the grass for a long time, and now my husband just cuts it off with a trimmer at an angle, but after a while it still crawls between the tiles, it’s a pest!
Weeds do not grow from below. They grow from seeds that fall on the sand between the tiles. I use Hurricane for weeds. But a trimmer works best. I tried it with salt, but wasn’t impressed with the results.
You just need to give up the tiles. It's yesterday! Use stamped concrete. Cheap, fast, durable and beautiful!
Alexander, what is printed concrete?
Firstly, it’s not cheap at all, tiles are cheaper, and secondly, it’s not practical
What it is?
It would be better then to use an ordinary concrete path, ideally then cover it with asphalt on top and no water would leak, no salt, no weeds
concrete only in the south when it’s cold doesn’t work for it\practice
Stamped concrete is simply concrete placed onto a special surface. base (cleaning the soil from turf, laying a crushed stone bed, laying dense polyethylene, reinforcement and pouring concrete with an additive in the form of a binder. Then, after two to three hours, the surface of the concrete is sprinkled with a colored powder knee, smoothed and with special stamps with a pattern, the pattern is applied by indentation. After After the concrete hardens, expansion joints are cut into it and for 5-7 years all that remains is to admire. For a greater effect, a special varnish is applied. And that’s all! If we talk about the price, the cost of materials is much cheaper than laying tiles! The estimate usually includes a high salary (% up to 50), but making it yourself is much cheaper and easier than tiles.
It's better to burn it out with napalm right away
?powerful?
Grass also grows through geotextiles
Agree. There is such a grass for which geotextiles are not a hindrance)
Why do this? What nonsense! Grass breaking through the ground walled up in concrete is beautiful, aesthetically pleasing and simply an affirmation of life around.
This is not stupidity. Growing grass is ruining the sidewalk. and tiles with grass are laid using a completely different technology
That's right, the grass coming through is beautiful. And over the winter she herself will die. Why poison the area with salt, vinegar, etc.? All the same, rains of snow will wash away all this rubbish onto your own site, onto your plants. Everything will end up in the soil.
Sprinkle agrokiller on the grass during the growing season and that's it.
Yes, Agrokiller, Tornado and all that! This is how I treat tiles in a cemetery. I just need it to not rain for at least a day. Excellent results!!!
Salt will destroy concrete in winter.
in a couple of years the acid will wear off the tiles. try it - it sizzles. acid washes construction tools from concrete... :)
The author writes: “The only thing that works 100% effectively is laying tiles on geotextiles, crushed stone, geotextiles, and then sand.” And that's not true. Our paths were made exactly this way, and literally in the third year the grass began to grow like crazy. Our dacha neighbors moved on. They removed the entire turf layer, laid three layers of geotextile, sand, crushed stone, filled it all with concrete and laid tiles on top. So far (for the 4th year) there is no grass. But this is not a deadline. We'll see in 10 years.
Geotextiles do not help, they still grow. The seeds fall into the sand through the cracks between the tiles and germinate. Only treatment with herbicide helps. Or, as Olga wrote, put tiles on the concrete with mortar. This is what I did in front of my garage - it’s the only area where it doesn’t sprout.
Sergey, what if the tiles are laid on geotextiles and the seams between the tiles are covered with concrete, eh?
If you periodically cover areas overgrown with grass with black mats, rubber, or black film, then under the rays of the sun the grass will simply burn and dry out.
Vinegar, like other acids, destroys cement; acids should not be used on concrete
I love the “sick” comment on the grass! It works! And, it’s not dangerous for the garden!
Salarka! without enthusiasm, no need to pour a lot into the seams! and dies and does not grow in the seams after nothing!
What a wild fantasy! Guys, just don’t let the grass grow, pull it out in time, otherwise you will use such means as vinegar, salt, herbicides and all kinds of “hurricanes” and “roundubs” that will subsequently cause more damage to your area.“Patience and work will grind everything down” - there’s no escape; we don’t have to just lie there and hope that everything will work itself out.
Good luck to all!
I treat it with round-up a couple of times a season.
it is banned in normal countries and causes cancer
The tiles need to survive not on sand, but on a cement-sand mixture, and sweep the seams with it, dry it a little and there will be no grass. I’m talking about a tiler
Andrey, you are the only one on this forum who expressed sound advice.
I live in the Tula region. We use the so-called for laying tiles. "muchka" - screenings during the processing of blast furnace slag. And the seams are also filled with sifted flour. At home I laid it on river sand and filled the seams with cement. Four years have passed, and there is no trace of grass. True, after filling the joints, the surface of the tile became a little rough, but this soon went away. And the cement in the seams perfectly prevents the germination of grass seeds.
You can use diesel fuel, or you can use kerosene. Verified.
Salt DESTROYS concrete!!!
Under no circumstances should you treat concrete paving stones with salt! Once table salt gets on the concrete, the concrete simply crumbles and peels off.
Alas. I experienced this myself.
No need to suffer, just sprinkle salt on the seams and that’s it, after a while the grass will dry out
I live in Holland. Here everyone has tiled courtyards. The store sells 5-7% technical vinegar. It's just cheaper than a canteen. It is used to treat weeds that have grown between the seams. I use it too, I just pour the vinegar into a ferry bottle so that there is a narrow spout, it’s more economical and I pour the vinegar on the weeds. The jet hits only between the plates. Effect after 3-4 days. They dry out. Then I just pull them out. If a weed appears again somewhere, then I go over it point by point with vinegar.Very easy and simple. You just need to periodically inspect the area, if a weed has appeared somewhere, then pour vinegar in the very center and on the leaves.
Only 355 grams of table salt can be dissolved in 1 liter of water, even if it boils!
I remember from elementary chemistry lessons at school that the dissolution of table salt practically does not depend on the temperature of the water in which you want to dissolve it. so that there is no need to pour boiling water. Salt is not sugar.
What if you need to get a more concentrated solution? Dissolve, evaporate slightly, add salt, dissolve again, evaporate again...
7th grade Chemistry:
Table of dependence of salt dissolution on temperature:
The solubility of table salt in water does NOT DEPEND on temperature!
Well, maybe just a little.
What about herbicide treatment? Very good effect!
I poisoned the ants with salt, but marigold flowers have not wanted to grow there for two years now
Well, logically, it turned out to be a salt marsh where little grows, now we need to wait until the rains reduce the concentration of salt in the soil or change the soil
We have grass growing on the tiles and to the question - What should I do? - they answered - You should have mixed sand with salt!
invite Sobyanin, he will put 2 more layers of tiles on top for you all
In winter, in every yard there are boxes with a mixture that is sprinkled on the paths - an excellent remedy
There is a special coarse sand for filling joints in paving stones. It prevents the growth of weeds in the seams. I don't know how, but it works. I have had paving stones laid for 3 years now and nothing is growing.
For half an hour they pulled it out with their hands and that was it. smart guys... everything would be littered with chemicals around.
Agree!
Oleg, I give you a standing ovation.I read and am surprised: people talk about how to ruin the earth, how to corrode living things so that the tiles do not deteriorate. The deadliest pest is man: he craps everything - lakes, rivers, forests, air. Animals are dying out because they have nowhere to live. And with this... I feel sorry for the tile!
Stupidity is rare. The working principle of this method is as follows. The water goes where it is saltier. Those. In a normal state, the roots pull water into the plant, but when there is salt around, the water is sucked out of the plant into the ground.
Therefore, the plants on the path, next to the path, will die or wither. Adjacent trees will be affected. And this will last for a long time.
In the 70s of the last century, I served in the army, in helicopter aviation. The airfield was a meadow, and the helicopters did not stand on the ground, but on individual platforms formed from steel plates connected to each other. The plates along the long sides had bends with which the plates cut into the ground. These plates have a name, but I forgot it. The plates had perforations through which rainwater flowed from the plates into the soil. And grass grew through these holes. I don’t know why, but army regulations did not allow weed to be present in parking lots, and the technical staff obliged it to be eliminated by any means. It was completely impossible to pull it out. The old-timers taught us, young people, to destroy the grass by pouring gasoline on the parking lot. There are many hundreds of liters of gasoline in a helicopter, so draining a bucket of gasoline from the fuel shield did not cause any noticeable damage. The next day the grass became completely dry, broke and was blown away by the slightest breeze, and was gone for the entire warm season. The following year the procedure had to be repeated. The use of gasoline was fireproof, since in the summer, in the heat, gasoline evaporated within a few minutes, but managed to do its job.
Helicopters do not use gasoline, but kerosene!!! During your service, you never learned a military secret?
Why such difficulties? Treat with Roundup and that’s it!
It’s just a snowstorm when they laid paving slabs on a sand cushion, they put cellophane on it, the tiles don’t grow anything
Destruction of grass in the seams of tiles or stones with chemicals is justified only in burial places (cemeteries). They are visited 2-3 times a year, but the graves must be maintained in proper condition. Otherwise, weeds will grow from the cracks! And you are near the house, if not every day, then every week. And treat the area with a trimmer (including the path) - good exercise. Don’t turn your garden plot into a cemetery!
That's right, health is more valuable.
Salt is diluted in cold, not hot water. After pouring the salt solution, after a year and a half, the tiles can be swept away with a broom.
The safest way is to pour boiling water a couple of times during the summer
This is the most correct decision, pouring boiling water also helps very well against ants!!! ?
Back in 146 BC, when the Romans destroyed Carthage, it was covered with salt, “so that nothing would grow for 100 years.” And you say that the neighbor came up with an idea...
Watering your grass with boiling water is safe and cheap.
Only business advice, really safe, cheap, fast.
This is the most correct decision, pouring boiling water also helps very well against ants!!! ?
The best, cheapest, most reliable remedy is regular boiling water, no salt, vinegar, or damage to the tiles!
First, a cellophane covering is laid down, then sand and tiles, grass will not grow!
They tell you it's growing between the seams
Salt destroys concrete
Salt dissolves better in cold water than in hot water.This is a law of physics. That's what we were taught at school. But, obviously, what is important here is the destructive effect of boiling water on the grass? Actually, I feel sorry for the weed!! So, first - film, then sand - this is better: without mockery!
You were taught incorrectly at school - the solubility of NaCl (in g per 100 g of water) is 35.9 at 20°C and 38.1 at 80°C.
And isn’t it a pity to kill living grass?
Isn’t it easier to water the paths with Roundup?
There is another option. I somehow spilled the lawn grass. It has sprouted. I took it and cut it evenly with a lawn mower and it turned out nice.
And this is the best thing I've read here
Have you tried it with a shovel or scraper? Man is weak against nature!
We were tormented and decided to apply a liquid rubber coating to the tiles. We tried it aside, it holds the cracks well and the grass doesn’t grow
Liquid rubber, liquid glass, liquid silicone, liquid nitrogen or liquid metal - everything and everyone to fight the greens!
Has anyone tried green stuff?
What are you worrying about? you need to mix inert gases, Argon with Helium, and treat the gas and the product will not last for many years. Then you can select the first element, but if you know how. Then they can create any grass on the site anywhere.
There is always such a problem with tiles, if during installation they were not placed on concrete and the seams were not sealed with clean quartz sand. But over time it becomes clogged with dirt. I only know 2 options:
1. Make tracks from crumb rubber in a continuous layer on a concrete base with glue.
2. Lay rubber crumb tiles on a concrete base using glue
Does not slip, does not crumble, allows water to pass through, does not grow anything, and is painted in different colors. Easily recycled and restored on site in case of very severe mechanical damage.
Well, or with concrete tiles...Half the country shifts every year.
exactly! I support!
Well, a tile like the author’s (vibration casting) needs to be properly swept with a sand-cement mixture of one to two, the sifted sand is needed. Fine. Once we swept the “dry concrete” purchased by the customer, I remember it was called that, it was also a good mixture, and still after three years a couple the seeds germinate. I agree with everyone about geotextiles - they easily break through with roots.
You can just run boiling water over the seams, and the grass will wither and dry out
On roofing felt.
Maybe fill the seams with some silicone?
Why do you need tile paths if you don't walk on them? Walk more often. run, have children, let them run. And there will be no grass.
In the city, the sidewalks are made of tiles, and nothing grows.
The best thing and will last for 2-4 years is to pour a small stream of diesel fuel. Guarantee - 1000%
Diesel fuel - 1000% guarantee for several years
K I P I T K O M! ! ! There is nothing better!
And I either piss on them or boiling water. 100% helps.
Place regular plastic grocery bags UNDER the tiles. All. There is no oxygen, the weeds are fucked.
People with headaches. You see, they have grass growing between the tiles. Roll everything into concrete
The solubility of salt depends little on the temperature of the water! On the other hand, after you wash the salt off the tiles with water from a hose or pour it from a bucket, the salt will definitely end up on either the lawn or the beds. For which I congratulate you, you will have more problems
Geotextiles and sand are all true, but grass doesn’t just grow from below! The seeds fall into the seams and germinate throughout the season.I’m already used to it, just pull it out in time, otherwise the roots cling to the geotextile and to prevent it from sprouting again, I’ll have to lift the tile to remove the root cleanly. I have cats and of course I don’t do anything other than mechanical cleaning.
I read the comments, and it becomes scary: the majority of those writing here are ready to ruin their (if only their!) plot, harm their own and their loved ones’ health, as long as the sidewalk is bald. Is this what you came to planet Earth for? Fight life? How did living grass bother you? It doesn’t grow in places where people walk a lot - on the paths. Why douse it with all sorts of poisons?
Even if you put a black or transparent film, grass will still grow. Nothing will help. Only temporarily.
I tried to fill the cracks with liquid glass. I poured liquid glass into a plastic 1.5 liter bottle of mineral water. I DRILLED a 2mm hole in the cork, into which I inserted a vinyl tube of the appropriate diameter, about 70 cm long. THEN, without bending, I walked along the seams, pouring liquid into it from bottles. I filled it in the fall and still no blade of grass grows. About 10 liters of liquid glass are needed for 40 sq.m. The material is inexpensive. Sold in building materials stores.
Roundup, hurricane.. Careful so as not to get into cultural events.. Let someone be an assistant..
If you don’t like the local grass, go live in the desert, there are more and more of them on our planet. If you really want to take away sq.m. from nature here, remove the fertile layer - this value can be sold or placed on the roof of the house.
You can’t put salt on concrete; in winter it destroys either herbicides or vinegar and soda along the seam
After one year, Roundup caused plants to grow 3 times larger and larger. I am terrified. Salt, vinegar and Ferry give results over time.Horror. I hate plants in the garden. What you need doesn’t grow, and the nonsense gets on your nerves. This year we mowed the grass 6 times.
Have you tried simply exposing the grass, there isn’t much of it growing?
Sorry, pull
I fight purely mechanically: I take a grinder with a disc on reinforced concrete and go!
Ditch the tile with salt and it will peel off. Pesticides and other chemicals last a long time and do not affect all plants. I remove it with regular gasoline and water it with a squeegee. 100% killing of all living things in a few minutes. for an area of 25*5m 10-15 liters. Those who are afraid of a fire or explosion should sit in a bunker in a space suit - gasoline burns badly on the ground.
I made paths, laid them according to all the rules, and the grass is growing! I tried different methods other than pesticides. I came to the idea that it is more expensive to fight nature. Now I remove only the most arrogant plants, the rest do not interfere.
Tajiks help well...
guys, everything is correct within the house, but in the cemetery there is the same melody - and the tiles are according to the rules, but you don’t run into them every day, so either chemistry or salt (only with essence it’s cool - 200 ml is a lot.
Tell me, why make a city out of a meadow?
Only electrolyte. It's cheap and lasts all summer without weed. I remember as a child during the summer holidays I went to the shepherds to ride a horse. They sprinkled salt on the grass. After this, the grass grows better and thicker and the cows don’t run anywhere, they like the salt. So this is bullshit. The grass will grow even thicker. Also, after salting, thread 1 meter of copper wire between the tiles and connect the diodes - it shines beautifully until the salt is washed away by rain.
I simply water the weeds with boiling water. Well, several times a season, of course.
Aren't you tired of peeing against the wind? Salt on tile joints? Have you seen SEALING on tiles, bricks? Such white nightmare stains! In stores they sell a reagent, they use Karcher to no avail, etc. ! Better grass than this chimera! I gave up on this for a long time! Plant buttercups there and admire them! It's not about the grass, it's about the character of the person - you can get a heart attack from nonsense!
hoe, hoe, hoe, at 5 o'clock in the morning and a hoe, a hoe, well, maybe an old sofa in the cold of my mother is BEAUTY and exercise, and admiring the morning silence, and most importantly the SMELL, the SMELL OF GRASS CHOPPED BY A hoe!!!!!!!!! !! The main thing is to cut off the top of the grass several times and the root of the grass dies on its own.
I shave with a trimmer. I remove the roots with a knife. You can’t even take a fish out of a pond without difficulty. Everything needs care.
Hosspade, site purity-en.htgetrid.com, and most of the comments are men. Why are you rubbing yourself on women's sites?
Why are you hanging around here!?!
Are you adequate? People came here through an advertising link about a way to control weeds. And, of course, they ended up in the comments.
Complete nonsense. In the spring, all the tiles will turn into dust from Salt and Vinegar. Don't fill your brains with all sorts of tripe. Chemists. I haven’t tried writing on the tiles with the whole family every morning, maybe the weeds will die too.
They will die, of course.
I tried it. But not on tiles. Then a scorched spot of earth.
Methodical mechanical destruction of weeds is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming. but the most reliable method is safe for nature, for humans, and for tiles. Boiling water will also destroy beneficial insects, earthworms, and active microflora, which you will not see, but which is a guarantee of soil health, especially in the Non-Black Earth Region.Man has come up with a lot of barbaric methods, salt has the ability to accumulate in the soil, changing its properties and the viability of its population, how the lethal chemistry will turn out is generally unknown, everything will go into groundwater - do you need it? Nature has no tools or means against us, only its own natural strength. For some time now I have considered it neither environmentally friendly nor ethical to use any means other than weeding. When the area is well-groomed, the overgrowth of weeds is reduced and the work gets easier. the less. Sometimes I cover it with ash where the horsetail sprouts, it grows very deep, it doesn’t care at all. It and many other weeds love acidic soil, and the ash significantly controls them. We are all responsible for a piece of the land that makes us happy and feeds us, it is alive, do not harm it.
the only correct and effective way to get rid of weeds and preserve tiles and soil.
pour diesel fuel on the seams! you will forget forever!
battery electrolyte...that is, a solution of sulfuric acid...
Didn’t your wife hit you on the cheeks with a wet rag because you know everything about the “neighbor”?
Yes, salt greatly destroys the tiles. I’ll try to tell you my method, which saved me from grass on an area of 35 sq.m. for the whole summer. I'll see what happens next year. 1. I etched with a Roundup solution (only added 40 ml per 1 liter). After three days everything had dried, I swept it away with a hard broom and cleaned what was left between the tiles. Then I took 5 parts of grade 500 cement and 1 part of sand, mixed it and scattered it over the site, then started sweeping it away with a broom, almost everything got between the tiles, the next day I poured water on the entire site from a watering can and where the crevices formed I filled it again and repeated it all again. I’m happy from May until today there is no grass.Now, as soon as the heat subsides (it’s 39 degrees here in Krasnodar), I’ll walk the rest of the paths and do the rest.
1. Why don’t you like grass so much? Why destroy it? I set the lawn mower to low and go over the tile joints. Once a month is enough. The paths turn out to be a sight for sore eyes. I also use one more method. I made a scraper from an old hacksaw blade. Going through the seams once a month is also not difficult. And the garden looks like a garden, and it’s pleasant.
An idea came to mind. What if, after filling the seams with sand, you pour rubber paint into them. By the way, you can choose it by color. Pour in paint only to wet the sand in the seams
Chemistry and adhesive-based detergents and the whole problem.
Salt will sooner or later migrate with the soil solution and melt water outside the sidewalk and this will negatively affect the agricultural yield. crops growing nearby
Maybe someone tried to cover the seams with silicone for aquariums from a pistol? try it
Salt does not destroy concrete and shoes immediately. but the recipe with vinegar and soap is kind of nonsense because soap is an alkali and vinegar is an acid, when mixed they are neutralized. Sergey pours a weak solution of sulfuric acid and it lasts for 1 summer, but the concrete is still destroyed. Over the winter, living organisms appear in the seams and grass grows again
Salt is complete garbage. The tornado product is enough for two seasons.
Salt destroys the tiles. In a year.
This salt will spread throughout the entire area and nothing will grow at all! You won’t be able to remove the salt later!
Grass grows even on properly laid tiles. Because the seeds get there from above, and do not germinate from below... they laid the tiles. For 2 years you could wear white socks... and now run, water, cut, pull out.... If the weather is hot, it burns. and in the shade there is lush, beautiful grass.. My husband planted echinaceas. They are stunted in the garden bed, and such monsters have grown up between the tiles. The wind probably scattered the seeds. I left it for the experiment. They bloomed wonderfully :-)))
I filled the seams of the mourning tiles with saline solution, as the article says. Nothing has grown for a month now. Great way. Of course, after some time the grass will grow. But the method is easy, you can fill the seams once every 1-2 months.