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Tip: Use Vinegar to Kill Weeds in Sidewalk Cracks

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Jan 15, 2009

Grass Growing in Pavement Cracks This is sort of a garden tip. When doing your grand, mowing, weeding, etc. you detect you have grass/weeds growing in the sidewalk. It is such a pain to crawl along or bend over pulling them up with TOXIC chemicals. Fill a sprayer with vinegar and get at information technology.

A couple days afterwards spraying, they will be dead! Just sweep them abroad! I find this works if I am spot spraying area of weeds in the k. I practise not similar chemicals and directly vinegar helps with so many yard spots. Rinse your bottle out after use.

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Question: Preventing Growth In Driveway Cracks?

September 3, 2007

How do I kill grass growing in driveway cracks?

Ernest from Kansas City

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By jojo (Invitee Post)

September 4, 2007 0 found this helpful

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I've used a mix of equal parts vinegar and h2o in a spray bottle. I've also added a little flake of dishwashing liquid to aid the mix stay on the weeds.

Works well, they commonly come dorsum eventually, only it's easy to respray them each time.

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September 5, 2007 1 institute this helpful

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Instead of nuking the dirt every and then ofttimes, getting trapped into a routine, become to your home center for a patching material and glue the cracks close!

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By ruthie (Invitee Post)

September v, 2007 0 constitute this helpful

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I have been using patently humid water. Information technology really works. Have been doing this for a few years.

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Question: Killing Grass on Driveway?

How exercise I kill grass on the drive?

By Leslie

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Apr 23, 2022 0 found this helpful

I don't use any pesticides since I recollect they harm the world and things that live on it. But I heard some folks use a small torch (either propane or a lit stick) to burn down the grass.

It doesn't come up back they said.

April thirty, 2022 two found this helpful

Weed Be Gone
1 Gal. white vinegar
2 Cups epson salt
ane/4 Cup Dawn dish soap
Mix and spray subsequently dew evaporates. Never utilise damage full chemicals again.

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April 30, 2022 0 found this helpful

Sorry folks, forgot to put 1 gal. h2o in the recipe for weed be gone.

August 12, 2022 0 found this helpful

If that is true, then why does the forest re-grow after a forest fire?

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Question: Grass Growing in Cracks in Physical?

May 26, 2009

We have a concrete flooring in our garden, some of information technology is a foundation of a previous building and quite deep. There are several cracks in the physical where there is grass and weeds growing.

We want to put tiles on the whole floor, however we are not sure how to stop the grass and weed growth in the concrete for proficient. We want to be sure that the grass don't grow in cracks once we accept tiles layered on height of concrete and eventually dandy the tiles too.

We are not sure using weed killer in the cracks will stop weeds growing in the future. How near laying a membrane on tiptop of concrete and then putting another layer of physical and and then tiles, will that stop grass growing in the cracks ?

A 3rd suggestion was putting glue in the cracks, will that stop grass growing through cracks? We tried filling the cracks with some cement mixture, but the grass still grew through small cracks. Any proposition will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hardiness Zone: 10b

Past sid from London

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May 26, 2009 0 found this helpful

Y'all may need to try several things to get the chore done. Spray or cascade on straight vinegar, let that exercise its job. So use something pointy, like a modest mitt garden trowel, to dig into the cracks and pull out that clay and dried grasses. Then fill in with sand bought from walmart, or home supply store.

Tamp down really hard. My husband has used this method, and so filled it in with that expanding spray foam sealer, then when it was dry, cutting it off even with the surface of the concrete before putting down whatever you want to lay over.

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