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Default Clearing vegetation on gravel driveway - anything more permanent than roundup?


"Norminn" wrote in message
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On Apr 13, 1:51 pm, Norminn wrote:

dean wrote:

Is there a plant killer that will last for a whole year? Seems that
round up only lasts a month or two and then I have to do it all over
again!

You can kill weeds with Roundup, then clean up the soil from where they
grow. Fill gaps with caulk for mortar (grey color). Beats fighting
weeds.



It's a gravel driveway.


Oh, you did say that, didn't you ) Pave it )

Gravel driveways are supposed to have weeds. They keep the rocks from
washing away. :^)

I'd rather run a mower over weeds than mess with poison or stoop labor. Rich
people pay for 'invisible' driveways- interlocking open-square paver blocks
with feet on a gravel/sand base, and the gaps are packed with soil and
grass grown in and kept at golf course height. In late buggy/early auto era,
driveways were often just 2 skinny tracks of concrete or pavers with grass
inbetween- you can still see traces in some older urban neighborhoods,
though the gap has usually been paved in, and outside stripes added, for
larger modern cars.

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