I use water left over from cooking pasta most succesfully on my small paved areas. Over the course of a year I get round to doing all of it. I have tried many other natural substances. Vinegar is only one of them. I even had a big bottle of lavender essential oil that was bought cheap in the south of France here. The paths smelt amazing and annual weeds as per vinagar were destroyed. Taraxacum, Rumex and Ranunculus ficaria came back though. I don't have cardamine to deal with. Chelidonium majus seeds everywhere here but can easily be curbed by hot water. Leucanthemum vulgare was a problem but when young was easily dealt with my usual methods. I do have some areas where couch grass (Agropyrum repens) is invading. Here I will have to redo the paving! Kind regards, Mark Sainte Marguerite-sur-mer, France. > Message du 05/04/13 07:34 > De : "J. Denys Bourque" > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > Copie à : > Objet : [pbs] Weeds : Getting rid of them > > I was visiting a gardening website based in France just now, and read that throwing the water from cooking potatoes on walkways can do it, and better if still hot + salty. I add I have never tried this, however. > > > J. Denys Bourque > Saint-Jacques, NB CANADA > Cdn Zone 3A > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/