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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?
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You do not have to lift up all the rocks to kill those weeds if you use Round-Up.
I am assuming there are no flowers etc in that rock bed? They are a bit harder to spray around. Trees and shrubs are easy to spray around. Trees, just don't spray the trunk. Shrubs, just pull them to one side as you spray.
Spray early in the morning. Don't spray if windy. Don't spray if rain is expected within 8 hours.
The Round-Up you buy in stores is pretty weak. I have a 1/4 section and qualify as a farmer to buy the real stuff. I can spare a cup. Message me if you are interested.
Weeds will grow in pretty much anything, including mulch. If anyone knows 100% how to prevent windborn seeds from falling in your beds, you better patent that idea now and start selling. Killing weeds is not a "once and you are done" job.