flagstone Weeds

[postman]

A never ending battle.I sometimes use hot water.It's a job I hate couple of times a year hands and knees job with Knife scraper,good luck.

 

[fossyant]

Over lockdown I saw a surprising amount of people sorting out driveways with nails in a piece of wood and raking them out. I can think of better ways to spend my time tbh.

My neighbour needs to learn about maintaining his block paving, and he's a builder. One year had some 'guys' with a jet washer blast everything out, including mud all over the road. Weeds grew back. Then raked them out, weeds grew back, then, lifted each and every block pave and re-layed them one by one (took him weeks). Guess what, full of weeds again

 

[vickster]

Hi,
Can someone recommend a method for getting rid of weeds coming through the flagstones of my garden?

Employ a gardener...

 

[fossyant]

Employ a gardener...

Very funny. My brother and brother in law keep saying how the weeds in their lawn are getting less, 3rd visit by the gardener and looking better. It's as though they have been doing it ? Monthly treatment of ferrous oxide and the grass turns lush, and it's cheap unlike a gardener.

 

[vickster]

I'm happy and financially able to support the employment of a gardener, I can't do much of it myself anyhow. I normally get them in for a day in October to have a pre winter blitz/prune of tress and big shrubs. I'll have a hack at a few bits and mow the lawn but I can't do anything involving crouching or kneeling, eg weeding!
My drive is a disgrace, but most of the time, the weeds are hidden by the car

 

[annedonnelly]

Plant something in the gaps - a low-growing creeping herb perhaps. My neighbour & I were just discussing doing this with her new paving. Something like a small-leaved creeping thyme which will smell nice when walked on & it'll be a feature rather than a problem.