How To Get Rid Of Patio Weeds Without Chemicals

$32.00
2 Hours
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If you have a brick patio and are sick of those nasty weeds then you must try this solution! There is a way to get rid of patio weeks without using chemicals. A few years ago, we restructured our brick patio and added more bricks to it. Little did we realize that even though we used plastic sheeting under the bricks, weeds would find a home there regardless of the precautions we took.
You can be weed free within a few short hours! We even had to pull weeds in the winter too. It was nuts!
Does your patio look like this? Aren’t you tired of pulling weeds? Well, here’s the perfect chemical free solution!
This is what we had to deal with constantly! We really wanted to avoid using chemicals. They never work and have serious consequences too. We knew there had to be a better way and of course, there was! Paver/Patio sand – yep, it was that simple.


The best part is you can use sand anyplace where you have unwanted weeds! It’s not just for patio use. We even used this patio/paver sand in the garden around flowers and shrubs! As you can see below, we even had moss growing in between the bricks. It was a mess!
You can pick the sand up at any of your local hardware stores. It’s the best way to fight those nasty weeds without using chemicals! We purchased ours at our local Home Depot and this is the type we used. It was pretty inexpensive too at around $4.24 a bag. We used a total of eight bags for our entire patio which is great!
It works great for:


Leveling sand for interlocking patio, pavers, edging, walls


Use for paver leveling or as paver joint sand


Aids with proper drainage and stability to patio projects


We also had to get rid of the weeds from our neighbor’s side of the fence too to make sure none of the nastiness of her weeds didn’t poke through. It was so easy to do and all without chemicals! That entire strip against the wall was loaded with weeds. Not anymore!


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  • Carol.jussely Carol.jussely on Aug 18, 2016
    Before putting the sand down do youhave to pull all the weeds up?
  • Anita Minton Anita Minton on Aug 19, 2016
    How long has it been since you did this? I've used the sand in the past and after a year or so the weeds came back.
  • Margaret Mol Margaret Mol on Sep 14, 2016
    What chemicals are in that sand, that kill the weeds?
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