Jami Cresser-Brown (she/her)
Then I took a weekend and made it my “painting weekend” and things got done.
I tried this during a hot spell and it worked in less than 24 hours.This patch that I’m showing you now took about 5 days because it was a little bit cooler and more overcast during that time.
It still worked, but it took some time.Of course it also works better on certain weeds compared to others.You really do need a few different tricks up your sleeve to kill all your different weeds, but luckily I’ve got some of those in store for you soon.
Salting only takes 20 seconds though, so it’s worth a shot if you’ve got a walkway that looks like mine.. Where we live, the climate is quite humid, so the salt really clumped up and stuck exactly where I put it, but if it’s dryer where you are, you may want to sprinkle the ground with some water first so the salt doesn’t blow away.. Something else you should know: This salt trick is a little controversial in the organic gardening world according to my reading.If you over-salt your yard, then you risk the salt leaching into the ecosystem and harming all kinds of plants, animals, and water systems.
My thinking is this: Harmful chemical weed killers do that anyway, but they’re also harmful to you.
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