How to get rid of weeds between fences

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what Roundup was made for. It will only kill the weeds/plants that you spray it on.

Yeah until it gets found in foods like cereal.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/12950444

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to accomplish WITHOUT poisoning our groundwater. No poison chemicals for me.!! I have been using compost (previous cut grass) between the fences for past 20 yrs.Which has been working well for me!!!

NOW our city Ordinance Dept. calls this "blight".....and expect me to remove it. Where were they when my neighbor put their now rotted down wooden privacy fence next to my chain link fence - backwards. I know its the responsibility of the person putting up the privacy fence to maintain weed control .... I've been here 43 yrs. that house has seen owners come & go and now have renters .... NONE of those people ever 'weeded' that space between our fences. It was always left up to me. I started this after a couple trees tried growing between our fences. Now What do I do?

I'm actually the OP of this thread, I can't believe it popped up after three years. Given that you have a chain link fence that's probably 3.5-4 ft high (and thus can both reach over the top and have some access to the space between the fences, I would clean out the mess you made, put down some heavy-duty weed barrier between the fences, and then put a layer of landscaping rock (the ones around golf ball size) on top of it to secure the barrier and discourage new weeds on top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to accomplish WITHOUT poisoning our groundwater. No poison chemicals for me.!! I have been using compost (previous cut grass) between the fences for past 20 yrs.Which has been working well for me!!!

NOW our city Ordinance Dept. calls this "blight".....and expect me to remove it. Where were they when my neighbor put their now rotted down wooden privacy fence next to my chain link fence - backwards. I know its the responsibility of the person putting up the privacy fence to maintain weed control .... I've been here 43 yrs. that house has seen owners come & go and now have renters .... NONE of those people ever 'weeded' that space between our fences. It was always left up to me. I started this after a couple trees tried growing between our fences. Now What do I do?

I'm actually the OP of this thread, I can't believe it popped up after three years. Given that you have a chain link fence that's probably 3.5-4 ft high (and thus can both reach over the top and have some access to the space between the fences, I would clean out the mess you made, put down some heavy-duty weed barrier between the fences, and then put a layer of landscaping rock (the ones around golf ball size) on top of it to secure the barrier and discourage new weeds on top.

OP, what did you end up doing with the situation in your yard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to accomplish WITHOUT poisoning our groundwater. No poison chemicals for me.!! I have been using compost (previous cut grass) between the fences for past 20 yrs.Which has been working well for me!!!

NOW our city Ordinance Dept. calls this "blight".....and expect me to remove it. Where were they when my neighbor put their now rotted down wooden privacy fence next to my chain link fence - backwards. I know its the responsibility of the person putting up the privacy fence to maintain weed control .... I've been here 43 yrs. that house has seen owners come & go and now have renters .... NONE of those people ever 'weeded' that space between our fences. It was always left up to me. I started this after a couple trees tried growing between our fences. Now What do I do?

I'm actually the OP of this thread, I can't believe it popped up after three years. Given that you have a chain link fence that's probably 3.5-4 ft high (and thus can both reach over the top and have some access to the space between the fences, I would clean out the mess you made, put down some heavy-duty weed barrier between the fences, and then put a layer of landscaping rock (the ones around golf ball size) on top of it to secure the barrier and discourage new weeds on top.

OP, what did you end up doing with the situation in your yard?

Nothing. We didn’t want to use poisons that might damage the plants we want to keep there and we couldn’t figure out a good barrier solution, so we just weed frequently. And curse the neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Weed killer

[Anonymous]

I agree with boiling water to kill the weeds, followed by a deep layer of landscaping rock.

[Anonymous]

RoundUp is safer than boiling water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RoundUp is safer than boiling water.

Um no

[Anonymous]

napalm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what Roundup was made for. It will only kill the weeds/plants that you spray it on.

Yeah until it gets found in foods like cereal.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/12950444

Roundup is sprayed on Roundup-Ready food crops, so it isn't surprising that trace amounts are found in cereal. Maybe that's a bad thing. But a suburban homeowner spraying Roundup on his back fence isn't going to put any into his cereal or his neighbors' or yours. Nor is overspray from spraying the back fence going to travel for miles, like someone claimed in another thread a while back. Maybe that happens in open farm fields, but how could it happen in suburban back yards?

[Anonymous]

Napalm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RoundUp is safer than boiling water.

Um no

yes for the applicator, Ru is safer to apply than trying to carry a pot of boiling water from the house to the fence line to throw onto the plants.

there is an organic herbicide called SCYTHE. before you your greenies start poo-pooing it, it really does work, the only down side is that it is a quick kill (just like boiling water). on smaller weeds its fine, but on larger more established weeds, it may not be enough to kill the roots the way Ru does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what Roundup was made for. It will only kill the weeds/plants that you spray it on.

Yeah until it gets found in foods like cereal.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/12950444

I don't eat cereal. I'd spray.

[Anonymous]

Vinegar and a little dish soap sprayed between the fence. I've tried the boiling water trick and it takes gallons of water and wasn't too effective. The vinegar on a hot summer day will bake those weeds ago in a couple of hours. Viney plants like ivy are much hard to take out though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vinegar and a little dish soap sprayed between the fence. I've tried the boiling water trick and it takes gallons of water and wasn't too effective. The vinegar on a hot summer day will bake those weeds ago in a couple of hours. Viney plants like ivy are much hard to take out though.

ugh, just noticed. why does someone bump up a three-year old post about weeds?