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.