What should you do with a gravel driveway? I’ve got one and don’t want to take the usual path.
Spraying that is, with herbicide to keep it weed-free. Even the ‘organic’ methods for weed killing turns me off. Pouring boiling water onto dandelion and plantain is not my idea of working with nature. Rather than blitzing everything green that pushes it’s head up through the grey gravel, I’m doing the opposite - sowing the seeds of every available weed, at least the weeds I fancy, up and down my driveway. Land cress, narrow and broad leaved plantain, fathen, chickweed, sow thistle and miner’s lettuce, I like them all and I’ll never burn, boil or blast them.
I might crush them however, as I reverse my car out in the morning and roll back home at night but they’ll just have to accept their fate should they choose to grow in tyre territory. It’ll be a long garden and one that I visit every day. Visitors will find themselves parking in it. It’ll be liberating for them. Perhaps.
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Marigolds and forget-me-nots work well up the middle of the drive - easy to mow and reseed. Any weeds in the interim - nuke them.
I am sceptical Robert, but open to "liberation" :)
Both of those you mention are welcome in my driveway PM. I've got weeds on the edges, weeds up the middle but none in the 'interim' at all, in fact I'm not even sure which part of the driveway that is!
Shunda - "I am sceptical" - your defining statement!
Throw caution (and weed seeds) to the wind!
The thing is when you are growing container stock stray seeds can be a big problem.
I have all boundaries planted in shrubs like hebes, coprosmas etc which attract beneficial bugs and also Kowhai, pittosporum, Flax etc, but herbaceous plants make me nervous!
You'll not be a fan of the triffid then Shunda.
Actually, I have chucked the odd marigold, cineraria and forget-me-not around at times as well as trying many of the herbaceous natives.
Seems that the PM has nuclear weapons after all, who would have guessed a gardening application?
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