Path weed prevention

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ditto. Have a look at mine. Not a weed anywhere. Full of mortar.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

[Chris Hodges]

We've got them with bark/slabs on top. Weeds root in the bark but pull straight up intact with no effort, unless they've managed to slip a root under the slabs.

[Terry Pinnell]

Thanks for all those very helpful replies (many more than in uk.rec.gardening ).

[usenet]

If you're going to scrape it out regularly wouldn't it be easier to put down a membrane? It's not very expensive.

[usenet]

Membranes are porous so they don't prevent the water draining away.

[David Lang]

Trouble with that is you wouldn't be able to walk on it. More that about 1" of compacted gravel is like walking on a shale beach.

Dave

[<me9]

The type of gravel greatly affects this. Some hardly moves, rounded gravel, like beach gravel will.

[The Natural Philosopher]

well after about 4 weeks of car traffic our 20mm hard edged shingle is packing down nicely. The 2" deep bits are rook solid, but the 6" bits are still a bit mushy.

But cars aren't getting bogged in it any more.