[Knalus]

Originally Posted by photon

I'm tired of battling weeds in our non-grass rock filled areas in our back yard, not sure what I should do. We don't really use the areas for their original purpose (planting flowers and such).

I figure my options are:

- Take up all the rocks, try and kill the weeds, put new landscape fabric down, put the rocks back.

- Take up all the rocks, try and kill the weeds, put new landscape fabric down, put down something that helps prevent the weeds (cedar chips? rubber mulch?)

- Take up all the rocks, remove the borders, take up the landscape fabric, and plant grass.

- Hire someone to do the weeding

Option 3 seems like the lowest maintenance as then it'll just be part of the yard that gets mowed, though it sucks to have paid for that to be created originally.

How effective are those rubber mulch at inhibiting weeds if I combined that with new landscape fabric?

Or any other ideas? Chemicals? Goats?

Cement? Poured thinly between the rocks?