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On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:18:24 -0700, jps wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:00:48 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:37:31 -0700, jps wrote:

We have about 2000 square feet of quartzite granite stone in the
screen cage and around the yard. It is over concrete tho. Of you just
set stone in the sand you will be fighting grass forever. I suppose if
you don't mind spraying poison around every few months you can hold it
down

We have been doing this over a period of 20 years, a new patch every
few years so it wasn't horrible to do.

http://gfretwell.com/electrical/addi...0them%20in.jpg

You can put week block under the sand or gravel base to keep plants at
bay. Anything that does grow is easy to pull.


I guess that is OK if you like pulling weeds.

Glad you understood that I meant to write "weed block."

No, don't like pulling weeds but it's amazingly easy with the weed
block in there. Roots and all come up easily and nothing that
requires a tap root will grow through the block. Most offenders have
surface roots and are pulled up easily.

Pavers are a real popular thing here and my wife has at least an acre
of them around the country club she manages.All the houses she built
had a lot of pavers. That is why I have a brick shed house.

http://gfretwell.com/electrical/bric...ed%20house.jpg

Weeds do seem to be an issue here.. Weed cloth may help but a lot of
the grassy stuff we have here doesn't seem to need much dirt to grow
in.

The other issue is ants. They really seem to like living under pavers
and they will exploit any little hole they can find in your weed cloth
assuming they don't just chew one. I know it won't stop them.

I suppose living in a place where the ground freezes might mitigate
all of this.


Reply:
Neighbor uses salt water on his pavers 2x a year and seems to have the weeds
licked.