Ever mixed salt with sand for between patio bricks?

melanzana

Evening all,

Just had the front garden which is part brick paved power washed. Need to get dry sand now for the newly found cracks since the moss is now gone!

Was just idly thinking there, that if I mixed salt with the sand,

A. Would it keep the weeds down when the blighters start procreating next Spring,

B. would the salt have any impact on the bricks?

There is nothing on the brick drive that I would need to protect. I have beds either side, but they are raised with brick fronts.

Thanks, if anyone has any thoughts!

Davesnave

If you put enough salt in there to do any good, won't it dissolve, meaning that you may have to add more sand later?

If it dissolves, won't the salt be leached out quite quickly anyway? I would imagine after a wet winter there wouldn't be enough salt left to make any difference.

Having had a block paviour drive once, I'm not going to have another. Even in the days of sodium chlorate, I always found myself down on my knees once a year, getting the gunk out of the cracks. Nice, but hardly low maintenance.