Garden slab patio - what do you have inbetween the slabs?

Alnat1

Much better for the environment to use a crevice tool to remove the weeds. We should be trying to cut out chemical use in our gardens

stuart45

I've found a weed burner effective once you get used to it.

Woolsery

Bendy_House said:

Weeds and ants should be pretty easy to deal with, I think?

I hope not! Ants that is. I've just made a cocrete slab to go under the pavers our sitting-out bench will go on. It  was going to be on 3 big pavers bedded in sand till I discovered ant nests under each one. Then I recalled a thread here where someone complained about being bitten by ants every time they sat outside on the patio.....Hence all the work!

Bendy_House

Woolsery said:

Bendy_House said:

Weeds and ants should be pretty easy to deal with, I think?

I hope not! Ants that is. I've just made a cocrete slab to go under the pavers our sitting-out bench will go on. It  was going to be on 3 big pavers bedded in sand till I discovered ant nests under each one. Then I recalled a thread here where someone complained about being bitten by ants every time they sat outside on the patio.....Hence all the work!

I meant 'deal with' as in eradicate, not cope with :-)

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Hi,

a mate suggested granite/grano dust, but not tried it yet.

Woolsery

Bendy_House said:

Woolsery said:

Bendy_House said:

Weeds and ants should be pretty easy to deal with, I think?

I hope not! Ants that is. I've just made a cocrete slab to go under the pavers our sitting-out bench will go on. It  was going to be on 3 big pavers bedded in sand till I discovered ant nests under each one. Then I recalled a thread here where someone complained about being bitten by ants every time they sat outside on the patio.....Hence all the work!

I meant 'deal with' as in eradicate, not cope with :-)

But you still haven't said how one eradicates them.  They just come back. Not the same lot obviously!

Bendy_House

Woolsery said:

Bendy_House said:

Woolsery said:

Bendy_House said:

Weeds and ants should be pretty easy to deal with, I think?

I hope not! Ants that is. I've just made a cocrete slab to go under the pavers our sitting-out bench will go on. It  was going to be on 3 big pavers bedded in sand till I discovered ant nests under each one. Then I recalled a thread here where someone complained about being bitten by ants every time they sat outside on the patio.....Hence all the work!

I meant 'deal with' as in eradicate, not cope with :-)

But you still haven't said how one eradicates them.  They just come back. Not the same lot obviously!

I, er, would use, um...

Aren't there decent killers available? Powders and gels? 

youth_leader

I didn't think black ants bit, only red ones?  I don't mind ants, wouldn't worry me if I had nests.  

theoretica

Or grow plants of your choosing in the gaps so there is less room for weeds.

molerat

Bendy_House said:

Woolsery said:

Bendy_House said:

Woolsery said:

Bendy_House said:

Weeds and ants should be pretty easy to deal with, I think?

I hope not! Ants that is. I've just made a cocrete slab to go under the pavers our sitting-out bench will go on. It  was going to be on 3 big pavers bedded in sand till I discovered ant nests under each one. Then I recalled a thread here where someone complained about being bitten by ants every time they sat outside on the patio.....Hence all the work!

I meant 'deal with' as in eradicate, not cope with :-)

But you still haven't said how one eradicates them.  They just come back. Not the same lot obviously!

I, er, would use, um...

Aren't there decent killers available? Powders and gels? 

I have eradicated them, not seen any for a few years on my front drive.  Powder used regularly will eventually get rid of them.  Weed burner does a good job if you can find the actual nest hole.