Weed removal….organically ?

I would definitely prefer a pressure washer to a weed burner any day of the week.

You shouldn't use a weed burner in dry weather and the gas is heavy to transport, plus should be stored carefuly.

Argos stocks various reasonably priced pressure washers. I was unlucky with a Karcher model that broke down the second time we used it, so can't advise it.

Esspee

OP you asked for organic solutions, are advised that salt and vinegar are toxic to wildlife then you keep justifying your decision to use them. Trust those of us who kindly gave of our time to advise you.
Water will have just spread the "treatment" you have applied thereby poisoning even more of your garden to wildlife.

And I appreciate the advice but not the way you give it,very patronising!!” I’m beginning to think you are being deliberately obtuse“ how very rude!!

OP you asked for organic solutions, are advised that salt and vinegar are toxic to wildlife then you keep justifying your decision to use them. Trust those of us who kindly gave of our time to advise you.
Water will have just spread the "treatment" you have applied thereby poisoning even more of your garden to wildlife.

Katie59

Use a hoe or spade to cut the top off the weeds before any other treatment then use salt to kill the roots. Gives a much tidier patio, rather than dying weeds.

Thanks Katie ??

We have one of those weed knife things-very effective. I agree about ivy-cut it at the base and keep at it!

Use a hoe or spade to cut the top off the weeds before any other treatment then use salt to kill the roots. Gives a much tidier patio, rather than dying weeds.

I didn't fnid boiling water worked. I'm not a fan of the salt and vinegar method either due to the effect on wildlife that might encounter it. We lifted our patio stones and put down sheeting before replacing the patio stones. That keeps the weeds at bay. You can also pay someone to do it every now and then.

My gardener uses a strimmer to take my weeds off to path level, and then a stiff garden brush to remove anything left. Yes they grow again, but they are easily dealt with.

too late for the neighbour's ivy.
it's long since made it's way across this garden and strangled the far fence, our fence.
it's a dashed nuisance, but next door don't care, no hope of them reigning it in, or preferably, eradicating it.
i think it ought to be banned in any joined houses.
by its nature it doesn't stay put.
why i don't like the name too, connotations, clinging, destructive, poison.

Sorry, Polarbear I didn’t think! Chuckies, as Esspee says, are small stones or gravel. It’s a colloquial term, universally used in this area.

Esspee

Because something is sold as a weed killer or to put on your fish and chips doesn’t matter. They are both toxic chemicals to wildlife. Rock salt and table salt are chemically the same thing.
If you put salt down then hose it off it doesn’t magically disappear. It is simply spread elsewhere.
I’m beginning to think you are being deliberately obtuse.

And I’m beginning to think you are using your “superior knowledge” to try and belittle me!! I have hosed the salt off of my small patio it is gone on a part where there are pebbles and grass and I have diluted it with a lot of water!!! I know my garden you do not so you’re spiky comments mean nothing to me..

Because something is sold as a weed killer or to put on your fish and chips doesn’t matter. They are both toxic chemicals to wildlife. Rock salt and table salt are chemically the same thing.
If you put salt down then hose it off it doesn’t magically disappear. It is simply spread elsewhere.
I’m beginning to think you are being deliberately obtuse.

I bought an electric one for DH but he's not keen on it.

I do weed the back patio (sometimes) but we have a large block drive full of weeds (they've appeared again in a few weeks) so we do need to do something and I've downloaded the link to the grouting stuff.

Callistemon

BlueBelle

What’s wrong with a hoe that’s how I get rid of them

If it's a small patio and you have time, it's quite therapeutic as well as organic to weed it by hand.
Most weeds seem to come out easily if you don't yank them, just persuade them.

Bluebelle DH wrecked my lovely hoe (it could have been vintage!) by doing that.

Callistemon,I have tried to do it by hand believe me but they are very deeply rooted….Also the contraption I bought and described up thread was no good either. I have a wildlife garden and would do nothing to harm the wildlife, the salt has been down a few hours now and shortly I am going to hose it away…

Polarbear2 chuckies are small stones used on driveways or paths.

BlueBelle

What’s wrong with a hoe that’s how I get rid of them

If it's a small patio and you have time, it's quite therapeutic as well as organic to weed it by hand.
Most weeds seem to come out easily if you don't yank them, just persuade them.

Bluebelle DH wrecked my lovely hoe (it could have been vintage!) by doing that.

Esspee

Shinamae

Thanks for all your advice it is only a very small patio probably 16‘ x 8, I have attempted to get them out with a long handled contraption that has looks like brass wire bristles on the end, hasn’t really worked… I will definitely try the boiling water and the salt and vinegar which will disappear after a little while. I am just adverse to using chemicals…???

Salt is sodium chloride, vinegar is acetic acid. Both are chemicals.

I know that, I was talking about commercial products!!

Shinamae

Thanks for all your advice it is only a very small patio probably 16‘ x 8, I have attempted to get them out with a long handled contraption that has looks like brass wire bristles on the end, hasn’t really worked… I will definitely try the boiling water and the salt and vinegar which will disappear after a little while. I am just adverse to using chemicals…???

Salt is sodium chloride, vinegar is acetic acid. Both are chemicals.

Shinamae

MoorlandMooner

Oh my goodness that photo makes me so sad. Poor old nature.

What poor creatures, wild or domestic, are going to come to drink at that bowl on a boiling hot night and trail their feet and bodies through all that salt.

This is the RSPCA saying how dangerous salt is for animals.

All for a few weeds that would have taken 10 minutes to weed out by hand.

www.rspca.org.uk/documents/1494939/7712578/Rock+salt+poisoning+in+pets+%28PDF+101KB%29.pdf/663009e5-a4c0-44ed-1c88-a06376ccfd86?t=1559139782482#:~:text=Even%20a%20small%20amount%20of,of%20convulsions%20and%20kidney%20damage.

The salt is going to be washed away with a hosepipe in about an hours time

And it is not rocksalt it is table salt

MoorlandMooner

Oh my goodness that photo makes me so sad. Poor old nature.

What poor creatures, wild or domestic, are going to come to drink at that bowl on a boiling hot night and trail their feet and bodies through all that salt.

This is the RSPCA saying how dangerous salt is for animals.

All for a few weeds that would have taken 10 minutes to weed out by hand.

www.rspca.org.uk/documents/1494939/7712578/Rock+salt+poisoning+in+pets+%28PDF+101KB%29.pdf/663009e5-a4c0-44ed-1c88-a06376ccfd86?t=1559139782482#:~:text=Even%20a%20small%20amount%20of,of%20convulsions%20and%20kidney%20damage.

The salt is going to be washed away with a hosepipe in about an hours time

SueDonim

We had more chuckies put on our driveway last summer as they’d gradually disappeared over the years. The drive was weedy and mossy so the chap laying down the chuckies used salt & vinegar in water to prepare it. He simply didn’t like paying high prices for chemicals!

I had my doubts but it worked. Being a driveway it doesn’t have much in the way of wildlife on it and in any case, as we are in Scotland, the rain soon dilutes it.

Ok I’m going to ask… what’s a chuckie??? ?‍♀️?

Oh my goodness that photo makes me so sad. Poor old nature.

What poor creatures, wild or domestic, are going to come to drink at that bowl on a boiling hot night and trail their feet and bodies through all that salt.

This is the RSPCA saying how dangerous salt is for animals.

All for a few weeds that would have taken 10 minutes to weed out by hand.

www.rspca.org.uk/documents/1494939/7712578/Rock+salt+poisoning+in+pets+%28PDF+101KB%29.pdf/663009e5-a4c0-44ed-1c88-a06376ccfd86?t=1559139782482#:~:text=Even%20a%20small%20amount%20of,of%20convulsions%20and%20kidney%20damage.

Salt and vinegar,so we’ll see…

Casdon

The problem with the solutions is that you’ll have to keep on weeding, which I decided is too much effort for me, life’s too short to weed between the paving slabs when there’s so much else to do in the garden.
Once you’ve weeded, try getting some Easy Joint, which is a paving joint compound that you brush in. It works really well.

I’m going right to Amazon now to order some easy joint, thank you ?

MoorlandMooner

Oh well, I tried. Your garden looks very pretty Shinamae. A real wildlife haven.

Thank you…?