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-supressing membrane has been laid beneath the path. Use a hoe to quickly remove weeds, pushing it back and forth through the gravel to chop up stems and roots.Hoe gravel pathsIf weeds are particularly bad, you may consider resorting to a residual weedkiller. Always

the surface of the soil and dump it.  However this this year (obviously) there is even more than normal.  I am tempted to treat it like any other weed and hoe it.  Normally rooted (whatever that means) weeds tend to die when the head and root are separated

and is now in danger of taking over the border I mistakenly planted it in. I've tried hoeing it in, pulling it up painstakingly by hand and smothering it with mulch but to no avail. It keeps coming back! Can anyone identify the culprit for me and suggest a

Help please - I have a raised flower bed - boredered by old sleepers. Last year when hoeing I found a 'substance?' it appeared initially like a bright white root system within the soil, then it looked like a white slime 'mass' on both the wood

include regular hoeing in between plants so any dampness, dew etc get soak down to the roots and use plenty of mulch such as compost, old leaves or even gravel or bark chippings. Drip irrigation is allowed. See Kitchen Garden page 6, News You can use

as seedlings and get left to grow.   As a bush it could get to 6 feet by perhaps 5 foot across with white flowers in panicles in summer followed by dark berries in autumn which the birds love to eat - Blackbirds especially. If you don't want them just hoe out

to hoe and sow there in clement weather.. Personally I wear Muckboots (Other half has a horse) they are a tad expensivem mine cost £50 3 years ago but they are durable and have a neoprean lining. My other half wears Hunters but she goes though a pair

Carried over from the bbc message boards, lets see photos of how your garden looks this April. Mines currently undergoing some work, so heres hoe it looked last April... and the lower section... Ahead of you Lead Farmer-started a gallery

After much deliberation, I bought on of these last year. My hope was to cut down on the amount of heavy spade work I do. Although it's fine for tilling the top few inches, hoeing & weeding, for me it will never replace me old spade & fork. Anyone

seed mistakenly thought it was a hollyhock Very easy to grow will be collecting seed of my one for next year   Do the slugs like them? If not they wil go on to my shopping list for next year. Thanks for posting the photo, I had forgotten hoe pretty