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Grass growing through footpath


Hi all, long time lurker first time poster

We moved into our house two years ago and I don’t have a green finger in my body so absolutely clueless when it comes to this stuff. As you can see in the pics grass is now growing up through the footpath in our back garden. My partner thinks it could be from seeds I used to fix some holes and regrow grass where our dog decided he needed to bury some treasure, but that’s a different conversation.

I’m wondering if anybody can help me figure out how to:

1) kill the grass/weeds in a way to ensure it doesn’t grow back again
2) remove the grass/weeds in a way that won’t damage the footpath if possible?

I’m going to buy an edging tool today so I can use that to separate the actual grass in the garden from the footpath as I think that might be a good first step

Thanks!

by GimJordon

4 Comments

  1. Low-Complaint771

    Burning them with a Landscaping torch might be the best way (Can hire one out I would presume), from an ecological and labour point of view.. They will come back, as nature tends to do. Every couple of years repeat the process. Alternative is manually scrape them out, which would be tedious. Or bring nasty chemicals into the garden.

    I set pavers with grass growing in mind, and maintain them by running the mower over them on lowest setting.

  2. TheStoicNihilist

    Nature finds a way. You can:
    – scrape it (Lidl have some decent hand tools right now)
    – burn it (I’m not a fan of flamethrowing insects).
    – weed killer (not a fan)
    – powerhose + scraping (the best option imho, because you can fill the gaps with sand afterwards preventing seeds getting in there).

    Whatever you do will need to be redone often enough so settle in to a method that works for you.

  3. Particular-Irishman

    You can buy the torch in places like Lidl or aldi cheap enough for burning them. There’s also a scraper tool you can buy and I found using one it did a good job, even if you were to spray it you’d have to pull the dead bits back out but either of these are handy. You can also kill the regrowth with boiling hot water

  4. death_tech

    I stupidly replaced the entire front and back gardens existing concrete sections (and a huge chunk of grass in the front) with cobble lock when we moved in two years ago …

    Buckle up for many many years of the annual ritual of scraping , power washing and sanding 🤣

    Compared to what you’ve shown us, I have at least 6 times the surface area to maintain

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