Rock bedding
 

I want to have my rock bedding redone around the house. The weeds are winning. Any reasonable suggestions?

Choice Maintenance.

If you like the rocks, all you need is for them to remove the rocks, replace the black weed barrier and reinstall the rocks.

Round up.

I agree.

I walk our rocks twice per month and I won.

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The most sure fire way to beat the weeds is to completely eliminate the garden and rock bedding and plant grass.

OP, if you do some research, the weed barriers are ineffective, I now know from firsthand experience, so I agree with above, get a good weed killer, with a battery powered extension wand, and hand spray for the weeds, very effective and very low cost.

Posting a photo may help response.

Roofing felt, roll it out, cut width to size , replace rock and you will not see another weed there again. I did mine 4 yrs. ago still no weeds.

Dirt will still accumulate on top of weed barrier fabrics. Weeds will grow. It is not very effective as it ages.

How are you getting rid of weeds now? Pulling them? They will grow back because parts of the roots will break off. Every broken off part will grow into an entirely new weed. So pulling them makes them grow back worse.

Here is the way to solve the weed problem. As suggested, spray a weed killer such as round up. That kills the weed all the way to the root. Only spray on a very calm day. Wind will blow it onto things you don't want to kill. Now wait a week for it to work. Then pull what remains, but you can leave it and it will shrivel up and disappear.

Highly caution against using salt or vinegar solutions. They may kill the weeds, but it also contaminates the soil. As those migrate with rain or irrigation, they will kill shrubs and flowers. Replacements plants will also die once their roots are exposed to them.

There are 2 versions of weed killers.
The one you want for your garden is active for a few hours after being applied. Once exposed to sunlight it becomes benign.
The other type is a long lasting type. You want that for driveway cracks where you never want things to grow. Never use that in a flower bed because water will spread it around (just like salt or vinegar) and kills grass, shrubs, flowers, etc, for a year or longer.

Since this is impermeable, I am guessing your trees and flowers need a lot of hand watering, at least the "weed mat" lets water go through. I would guess this also interferes with fertilizing
the plants. Glad it works for you.

You might want to try pine straw. Cheap, easy, and pretty effective in blocking out sunlight which the weeds need to grow. Allows water to get to your shrubs. It's what you see The Villages management using to keep the weeds down everywhere. You may or may not like the looks of it at first, but you will probably like it over time. You might just be able to put it over your rock bed if you don't want to remove the rocks. As it slowly breaks down, you just throw some more on top. Lowes and Home Depot sell truckloads of the stuff each year.

You guessed wrong, the person was asking what to place under a rock bedding , not a flower garden landscape. I suggested one possible solution that I came up with that worked around my foundation.

What happened to me was the type of rock we picked notoriously has extra dirt when they are put down - they are a sort of moon rock.
If you are going to have the rocks if Ted and relaid - make sure you rinse the rocks before replacing them

I've had good luck using Preen to keep the majority of weeds away and then using roundup for the few that get through. The Preen application seems to work for about 6 months before needing to reapply.

I jammed my leaf blower into the rocks and cleaned all the junk out of my rocks. Then sprayed Barricade 4FL herbicide. Active ingredient is 40.7% Prodiamine. Bought from Amazon. Saved myself a lot of money. I thought I needed more rock but ended up having pretty thick rock without all the sand and gunk in it.