Weedy Gravel

[fishdrivel]

was looking for a mechanical method, trying to avoid the Gly, to close to the garden

I can appreciate not wanting chemicals.
1) don't plow, makes it worse as someone posted.
2) don't use copper sulfate, as it will poison ground water.
3) You can use bleach to kill weeds to the roots. Use it as concentrated a are comfortable with. It is a chemical and hard on your lungs.
4) you can burn off with a weed burner as someone posted. This is not chemical but is temporary.

 

[sixdogs]

Glyphosate--Roundup works. I knew an elderly woman chemist that marveled at it's invention, saying how it enabled many older people to stay in their rural homes and farms, and maintain them, well into an advanced age when they would otherwise be stuffed into a an old folk's home.

 

[ovrszd]

Glyphosate--Roundup works. I knew an elderly woman chemist that marveled at it's invention, saying how it enabled many older people to stay in their rural homes and farms, and maintain them, well into an advanced age when they would otherwise be stuffed into a an old folk's home.

I have vivid memories of my Dad in his 70s managing weeds around the farm site with a corn knife. No weed eater. No chemicals. Between that and hoeing his rather large garden he was busy all Summer.