What can I use to kill grass growing in between the bricks

[bearfan454]

on my back patio ? I've tried a lot of things but it just keeps coming back. Any hints ?

[silverweb]

1. I just mixed a formula up.

Saved the recipe from some on-line green publication and thought I'd give it a try.

The recipe goes like this:

Organic recipe for a plant killer. It will kill everything it touches much like Round Up will.

1 cup of salt
1 gallon of white vinegar
9 drops of liquid soap

Mix salt and vinegar. Heat until salt is dissolved. Cool until room temperature, then add soap. Pour into a spray bottle and spray onto plant. The plant will look like it is dying, but it is only weakened. Spray it when it looks sick, and then spray it again.

I just made a half-gallon batch this morning and sprayed the weeds in the cracks in the driveway/sidewalk. They looked pretty sickly by this afternoon, so I sprayed 'em again like the instructions said. We'll see how they look tomorrow and if they come back at all once I dig them out and douse the cracks with more of the solution.

:)

[TygrBright]

2. Get one of those propane torches and burn it out. n/t

[Ecumenist]

3. I use boiling salty water...

Take care of them everytime and also keeps it from resprouting. It works within a day or two, trust me.

[NJCher]

4. I have that problem, too

I'll be trying some of these solutions.

What I need is some type of wand applicator to get in between the bricks.
I tried this stuff and it worked great. Organic, too. The problem is with the application because spraying down doesn't work.



It smells great!

Anybody have ideas on how I can apply this?



Cher

[Poiuyt]

5. Try using a compression type garden sprayer

I have one kind of like this one:

[NJCher]

6. yep, that's just what I want

I fear the price, though. I was looking around and found some $135-235.



Cher

[Poiuyt]

7. $10-20 is more like it

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=58855-1319-30161&lpage=none

[NJCher]

8. that's terrific!

I go past Lowe's on my way to my university so this will really be easy. Thank you so much for tipping me off to this!!



Cher