Ordinary vinegar as a remedy for overgrown sidewalk grass. It sounds like a fairy tale, and it’s cheap and ready to go. But the gardener warns against this trick. “You can’t do without manual labor,” says Vlastimil Šindelář in the iReceptář podcast.
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At the beginning, a beautiful path, paving, maybe a footpath that goes around the house. Everything is in line. But after a year or two, without you perhaps noticing, suddenly half of it is covered by grass. She grew up there like nothing. And you are in a hurry to decide what to do with her. Maybe someone advised you: “Then water it.” But it may not be the ideal solution.
Better for nature
“Watering weeds, for example, on the edges of paths or in the pavement with vinegar, i.e. acetic acid, is such an ecological idea,” confirms gardener Vlastimil Šindelář. “But vinegar is a completely ordinary acid. So it will burn not only the grass, but also everything else it gets into. And it will also acidify the soil. “It’s certainly a better solution than, say, the popular Roundup, but it’s not ideal either.” Because then nothing grew around you at all.
Kick it
And literally. According to the expert, this is the only really correct option to keep the edges of the paths in their original condition. “There are simply no cakes without work,” Vlastimil Šindelář will not please lovers of quick solutions.
His advice is therefore simple. Pick up a hoe and a brush and regularly maintain the sidewalks and paths. Devote yourself to them at least once a year, but ideally in spring and autumn. You’ll probably be done in an afternoon and avoid unnecessary chemistry. Even the natural one.
