Weedkillers do not kill the weeds in my garden

Skydancer

Weeds are wild flowers. Our insects need them. If you really don’t want them I’d suggest just digging them out.

My problem is that I have set aside a patch of land, about 25 foot square to go completely wild. it has been like that for nearly 30 years. All the weeds in the rest of the garden - and in total it is a fifth of an acre, come from my wild garden and the garden is too big and the weeds too many to 'just dig them up'. We are moving house because the garden is becoming too much for us.

I limit weedkiller to paths and gravel and patio. beds I hoe regularly

Boiling water is quite effective.

Weeds are wild flowers. Our insects need them. If you really don’t want them I’d suggest just digging them out.

crazyH

My solution is bleach - cheap, thin bleach. I know nothing about gardening …….

Salt and vinegar poured directly on the weeds, not your chips!

My solution is bleach - cheap, thin bleach. I know nothing about gardening …….

DH has just found information that hard water prevents weedkiller working properly. He has just tried again using rain water. We shall see …

The problem is that these weeddkillers have been made less and less powerful. Either there are bans stopping domestic consumers using certain weedkillers available to farmers or it is so diluted it is useless.

I find that the solution is to double or triple the amount of weedkiller for every litre of water in the spray. I did this this morning and last night and all the weeds on my gravel access road and on the garden paths are shrivelled and brown. However it does work out very expensive. But now I have knocked the spring flush of weeds, next week and thereafter I will be going around with my weed burner.

Weed killers😮😮😮.

No way!!!