Organic weeding

[charisstoma]

Okay too much salt is bad for your soil, breaking down the structure in something called puddling. Would imagine that over time it would also work to the detriment on brick.

It has been tried on weed growth between paving stones and reported to have worked by the Facebook commenters BUT
it needs to be used on sunny days for it to work.

Makes me think of my mother with a small brush, painting Roundup on dandelions in the lawn.

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[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Get rid of the slugs too, rather nastily!

Vinegar is apparently good, pour it between paving on a warm day and it makes the soils too acid so kills weeds by the next day. Not tried it.

t

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Weeds are one thing but slugs... the silver trails that are left in the morning on the pavement seem magical. I don't want to kill them nastily.
Mine are more probably snails though. Now if I could just get them to eat the grass consistently and to a certain height.
Did you know that snails float? When it rains hard here their little shells are floating around.. they probably drown too since many of them crawl up the side of the house to escape,to cement themselves to whatever surface they're on and then perversely that becomes their little tomb. It's sad and like earthworms that come out of waterlogged soil and die from the sun or birds.

Re: t

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Yeah magical *checks leaves of beans and sunflowers* the horrid things are ignore weeds and kill my nice growy things!
But no, I don't like killing things nastily. Saw someone put salt on a slug once and it was horrible. Don't know if they feel pain but...NO, there's no call to do that.

We have LOTS of snails in the garden, I have to keep evicting them from my greenhouse! My tomato plants seem more attractive to them than fushias.

Re: t

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Seems a waste but remember the use of beer in a shallow dish. Think of them as that character in um one of Shakespeare's plays, the one that drown in a butt *snickers* of some alcohol. Not death by chocolate but death by beer.

Yeah, but the trails are magical.

Moat around the tomato plants? Sized for slugs and their kin? Large tray or saucer under the pots, if they're in pots. *Looks at slug kin* Thou must ford the moat if thee want the tomatoes.