A woman took to social media to share her go-to trick to reduce the amount of weeds growing between her paving slabs – but she warns against using it on flowerbeds
It doesn’t matter what you do, you’ll always be tackling weeds in your garden.
But one woman shared a ‘game-changing’ hack to reduce how many weeds pop up between your paving slabs each year.
Taking to TikTok, the woman, known as @my.allotment.obsession online, shared the two things you need to help stop weeds from taking over your yard. In her clip, she is seen pouring boiling water straight from the kettle over the weeds before sprinkling salt over them.
She leaves the solution for a day or two – and when she returns, they started to shrivel up and die. She wrote: Salt sterilises the ground and prevents vegetative regrowth. Only use it on paths!” Commenting on her video, one user asked: “Does it kill the root though?”
In response, another user added: “Sometimes, not always. It absolutely does kill worms and essential microorganisms and bacteria in the soil though, which is not good.” While another responded: “I do it on my patio and they don’t come back.” Offering another solution, one user said: “Clear vinegar and washing up liquid is brilliant too.”
It comes after another gardening guru shared her go-to trick to banish slugs from your yard. Meg, known as @meggrowsplants on TikTok, received praise after sharing her simple trick that costs under £1.
In her video, she said: “Something is eating my pepper plants. I’m really mad about it, they look awful. I’ve had them top a few of them which means they’ve literally eaten the main stem off. I know exactly who the culprit is. As you can see from this gooey, slimy trail right here, it is slugs.”
Meg says snails and slugs ‘love beer’ as they are attracted to the yeast in it before going on to explain how she uses the beverage to make ‘slug traps’.
“It’s as easy as pouring the beer into a bowl and setting the bowl near the affected area,” she continued. The following morning, Meg goes out to check on her traps and discovers a handful of slugs dead inside her beer bowls.
