Remove crab grass from driveway

[Gordon Gould]

Is there any easy or best way to remove crab grass from a gravel driveway
and turn around area? The stuff is so tough my rear blade wont shave it off.
I have not tried a rake but can borrow one if thats the way to go.
Thanks for the help

 

[nmu98]

Round Up.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I was afraid someone would say that

 

[Bird]

Of course Round-Up if you want to kill all the vegetation in a gravel drive. MSMA if you only want to kill the crabgrass and dalisgrass.

 

[RalphVa]

Roundup (glyphosate), vinegar or torch.

 

[bigdad]

Chlorox....cheap

 

[smallfarmer]

I'm curious what concentration of clorox do you use and how often?

 

[bigdad]

I'm curious what concentration of clorox do you use and how often?

Full strength. Often? "Fire for effect" I have seen it used on sidewalk cracks with great effect.

 

[pitt_md]

I use a box blade. Drop the scarifiers down and it digs up the crab grass. You could use a rake after that if you wanted to clean up the clumps of grass.
I have pets running around all the time and I do not use chemicals any more than I have to.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Boiling water does the trick for awhile........... Depends on how much energy you want to use.

A blow torch on a propane tank ....

 

[Westonium]

Propane-powered weed burner.

Best used after a rain (preventing accidental fires). It's the heat that does them in, not the burning.

I've seen weeds shrug off vinegar and citric acid.

If you can, try to keep leaves, pine needles, and decomposing plant stuff off the gravel driveway. It makes dirt rather nicely and all those pioneer weeds love it. Sometimes that is hard to do.

I've been thinking of taking a free or nearly free lawnmower and mounting a couple of wide propane burners that I can mount pointing down and close enough to the ground so I can do the weed burning more accurately and effectively. I don't want to keep buying roundup (glyphosphate), and the roundup doesn't seem to prevent the new weeds from coming in. I think the propane route will be cheaper.

Additionally I could use it in the garden to kill weeds and weed seed in-between beds.

just a thought.

 

[JiminGa]

Pramitol or Sahara, but please read the label and use common sense.

 

[kthompson]

Propane-powered weed burner.

I don't want to keep buying roundup (glyphosphate), and the roundup doesn't seem to prevent the new weeds from coming in. I think the propane route will be cheaper.



just a thought.

Round Up is absorbed only through the foliage so it will not "prevent" new weeds. kt

 

[Dougd]

Roundup is no more than a temporary thing at best; I have a gravel drive and turn-around that "goes greeen" with great regularity, and I spray with Roundup with great regularity. The grass comes back with a vengeance, as does this slim-mold stuff that is driving me nuts trying to get rid of. Have tried a couple different weed-killers with the same results as roundup.
Haven't tried clorox; I had planned to spray tonite, will try that instead of roundup. It HAS to be less expensive.

 

[Arcane]

Another vote for superheating the weeds with a propane torch.

 

[sperry]

Box blade then rake!