On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:02:52 GMT, "Den" wrote:

Hello Group:

I've recently brought a house in Southern California (gulp!). I'm now
*very* poor - and have promised my first child to the mortgage company!!

Seriously tho', the driveways, patio and the parkway areas are rather
overrun with weeds. I need to find an easy to apply herbicide to blitz
them - probably will need multiple blitzing.

we park in a driveway, and drive in a parkway. ;-)

seriously, when you say the weeds are bad in the driveway, is this a
paved or unpaved driveway? Weeds growing in cracks, between spacers
and such?

When I lived in the UK I used to by a Scott's product called Pathclear - the
active ingredient was a chemical called simazine. It was easy to use - empty
one sachet to a watering can and water on!

You can buy many different forms of concentrated or ready to use
bottles of various formulations from some that foam so you can tell
where you've sprayed and if you've sufficiently covered the pest
plant. They're non selective herbicides though, so you don't want to
get them on anything you want to keep.

There are some ground sterilants, but why go nuts with something like
that when a simpler and probably cheaper, product that will kill the
weeds, yet still allow you options later on by not poisoning your
soil, and who knows what else.

Janice
..
I'd like to avoid the stuff that you dilute two dribbles in a cubic furlong
of water and then spray on and would prefer the dilute one sachet in a
watering can and water on approach if poss.

Does the group have any recommendations for me?

Cheers

Den