KEEPING GRAVEL WALKS FREE OF WEEDS.
By applying a slight dressing of salt four or five times a year, gravel walks may be kept comparatively free from weeds, and the labor required to preserve them in order reduced to a minimum. The salt should be distributed regularly over the surface of the walks thinly, but not too near to live edgings, which are liable to suffer by the roots getting soaked after rain. Grass verges will stand a soaking moderately well, but box edgings are easily injured by the roots getting saturated with salt water, and will perhaps bo killed altogether. The best times to apply the dressing is when there is a probability of settled dry weather, eo that it may lay some time before being washed off by the rain.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1993, 14 July 1880, Page 4
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132KEEPING GRAVEL WALKS FREE OF WEEDS. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1993, 14 July 1880, Page 4
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