What Is the Best Approach to Get Rid of Weeds & Grass From Landscaping (Stones)?
We moved into our recently purchased house here in (MI), now that the snow is finally gone and the everything is growing/blooming, we are finding that the landscaping has some issues. The main problem is that weeds and grass is starting to grow through the white landscaping rocks. I’m not sure how long the landscaping has been there. In some of the areas I can see the black mesh material. I want to have a nicely landscape yard, and I guess I actually have that, except for the weeds and grass popping up. Any suggestions?
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The best thing to use to get rid of the weeds and grass from your stones is Round-up. It should be available at hardware stores and your local Walmart or Target. Round-up kills everything, and they don’t come back, it is pretty amazing stuff. However, don’t use it in places where you actually want things to grow, because nothing will grow in that spot for a few months.
Hi !
Try spraying them with Straight White Vinegar of over 5% solution. It’s cheap and you can get it at the grocery store for about less than $2.00 per gallon.
Good Luck !
Ed VA
use casaron granules,if you are just killing weeds and grass.but don’t use it if there are flowers,or you will kill the flowers too.
Could be dust has blown onto the rocks, settled and now provides a nice bed for grass and weeds to ground on top of the weed barrier mat below. Or the mat has failed, wasn’t properly installed, etc. If you are seeing mesh, they were skimpy with the stone…….it should have been at least 2 inches thick, better three.
Short of ripping it up and starting over, plan a regular campaign with Roundup or other similar material. It’s one of the problems with rock landscapes.
An easy solution, if there aren’t too many weeds, is to keep a spray bottle of white vinegar handy. Spray the weeds, let them dry out for a day – that will make them easy to rip out. The vinegar is environmentally friendly.
Are the spaces between the stones large enough to put your hand in? If so, maybe you can stuff some black weed paper in there. This is a thin, black, felt-like material that impedes plant growth. I put it under my mulch in the landscaping beds last year, and I didn’t get any weed growth.
Good luck!