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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I use Roundup and do it myself. They have a jug with a built-in battery powered sprayer for about $25. Very easy.
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New (again) to lawn care after a few years of condo living, so learning lots. Have used both the "regular" Roundup in the "beds" with surprisingly limited success, and also the "safe" kind that you can use on the lawn, with seemingly a little better results. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Extracting weeds by hand can be a little bit "fun" - for a while, especially if you can get a good hold of them and feel that powerful, wonderful, ripping of the very essence of their roots and life from deep underground.
And then there's these little, round-leafed things that spread out in such a manner that a major dose of luck is required in order to grasp enough of it, close enough to its "central root top" that it doesn't break off at the surface. Getting pretty upset sitting here thinking about it.
These are the same little weed guys that seem to be almost impossible to kill with the chemicals. *And*, they've found a way to grow up *through* that black stuff that has lain under the "rock beds" for apparently too many years, now.
Guess I'd attend a seminar for learning solution options. A YouTube video might be better. Bet somebody knows the name for these particularly heinous little weeds around here.
New black stuff would seem to be an awful lot of trouble but, were it to come to that, I think I'd consider also replacing all those stupid, floating rocks with some version of "hardy" hibiscus plants.