How To Permanently Remove Weeds From Paths

If your garden of Eden is more of a garden of weeding, it can make it look tired, weathered, and unkept, particularly if the weeds are coming up through the cracks in your paving and paths.

All gardeners want to find ways to easily remove and kill weeds from their gardens, but paths can sometimes be overlooked, and they can take root, where they then seed and spread around the entire garden.

The most effective way to reduce the problem is to remove the weeds from the path and the adjacent borders before they get a chance to seed and to sweep up any moss and soil that had accumulated on the paving.

By starting with this, you will see that annual weeds such as chickweed and bittercress can be more easily controlled with hand-weeding or with a hoe.

However, pesky perennials like dandelions and plantains are tougher to eradicate, and once they have established themselves, the best way to treat them is to apply a systemic action weed killer to the leaves, which will reach down to the roots and kill the plant.

Examples of a systemic action weed killer include Weedol Gun! Rootkill Plus and Job Done General Purpose Weedkiller.

Perennial weeds, such as brambles, dandelions, stinging nettles, docks and ragwort, can live in a garden for years, storing food in their roots over the winter months. The rots spread out underground, making them difficult to manually dig out. If you leave a bit in the soil, it may end up resurfacing.

Every gardener will have their own method for removing weeds, from white vinegar or bicarbonate of soda to lemon juice or boiling water. Chemical weed killers may spread to other areas of the garden, harming your other non-weed plants.

If you need help with gardening in Shrewsbury, get in touch today.