Have you considered dowsing the weeds with scalding hot water? The process has to be repeated, but you don't have to bend over and pull!
Have you considered dowsing the weeds with scalding hot water? The process has to be repeated, but you don't have to bend over and pull!
Thanks Sage.
I have heard about this and some people swear by it. A woman at work also suggested adding salt to the water. I should try this again around the driveway, since I can't convince myself to love the dandelions and nothing else will grow there.
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Salt added to the water might do well, but then you have salted the soil so that it may be difficult for plants to grow there for some time to come. It might also have a bad affect on any plants that you like, and are nearby or "down stream" from the weeds you actually want to kill.
True. I am going to use the hot water (probably without salt) around my gravel driveway.
I bought some new ground covers yesterday, ivy, strawberries and assylum. I've done strawberries before and it did well for me until it took over the bed and started choking my other plants. Oh well, with some luck, I will have plenty of strawberries next year.
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I do have an area that used to be a garden until either moles, ground squirrels or gophers went to town on the veggies. They left me with plants with no roots and tomatoes with chunks bitten out. It is now an area strictly for fruit trees; a guava, and 2 avodacos while the rest is just barren after pulling out all the weeds that tried to take over
Would strawberries really work as groundcover or am I just gonna feed the aforementioned rodents? Like others have said, they would great and they're edible. Would they co-habitate well with the fruit trees? The trees are still relatively small, less than 5ft tall.
What do you guys and gals think?
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Wow I didn't know that scalding hot water killed weeds thanks so much. I will definately do this because weed killer is so expensive. I cannot believe that I found this out thanks so much.