Kill Driveway Weeds In Florida With This Simple Cheap Trick

Driveway weeds are something that we deal with year round in Florida. Especially if you have a paver brick driveway. But before you reach for the weed killer, let me tell you about an easier, cheaper, and much more environmentally friendly solution.

The first angle I'll take on this is the environment. Anything you spray or spread on the ground finds it's way back to the water. And I like our water here in Southwest Florida . I like to go to the beach, go boating, and enjoy fresh caught seafood. We really need to do a better job of polluting our sea life. The Florida gulf waters are already loaded with prescription drugs, fertilizer, insecticide, and other stuff. So any steps we can take is welcome.

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Secondly, personal health. Without naming any one company, there's a lot of lawsuits out there saying that weed killers cause cancer. So, why use it on driveway weeds if you don't have to?

You can use iodized or non-iodized salt, but not rock salt or sea salt. Get the cheapest one you can find. Just pour some salt in the cracks on a day when it's not going to rain and let nature do the rest. I've got yet another use/solution, but first, let me show off my Catholic upbringing:

Judges 9:45  So Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city and killed the people who were in it; and he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

Using salt to kill plants is nothing new. It's in the bible. Invading forces would salt the earth so that nothing would grow there. Ruining the area. But here's another reason to use salt instead of weed killers.

These little weeds pop through the cracks of your pool deck. Your family members and pets walk across your deck, if my dog licks her paws after she walks through something, I'd rather it not be weed killer.

And now the downside. It takes a few days for the weed to dry up and die. Not instant. On the pool deck I rip up the weed and pour some salt on any remaining roots. It's a little more work, but weeds will not return there for quite awhile.

The other thing to note is that the salt will remain in soil, so don't do this trick too close to an area where you want plants to grow. Be careful spreading salt on driveway weeds next to your lawn.

Welcome to the joys of home ownership. Stuff breaks. You've got two choices, hire someone, or try to fix it yourself. Now, if you've ever hired someone in Southwest Florida to do repairs, you know that it's not cheap. Thankfully one Florida handyman is helping. He's posted a series of easy to do home repair videos. And many of the videos have been viewed in the millions.

I can personally vouch for such videos, I made an easy repair at my home just last month, saving me a lot of money. My garage door was acting up. It'd start closing, then go back up. So I sprayed garage door lubricant in the tracks, hoping that would help. It did, sometimes, but it was still a problem. So I watched some videos on garage door repair. I checked the sensors to make sure they were lined up and nothing was blocking them. Then I found the solution.

On the back of the garage door opener, there's 2 plastic screws. One is labeled "open force", the other "close force". It's the amount of force the opener will exert before it reverses. I turned the "close force" screw just a little bit, and now my garage door works perfectly. Chances are, the near 20 year old garage door had gotten a little warped and needed more force to close.  I love videos like this. Then I ran across the jmg8tor Tik Tok.

Being Florida based, his videos really apply to those of us in the Sunshine State. Like this video, which has over 30 million views.

I live across from some woods in Estero, so this is definitely something I want to try. What about a DIY towel holder?

That's what I'm saying, his videos make it so easy. He has 2.8 million followers and over 44 million likes. Enough to bring in some extra cash, although, according to Fox13, he still keeps his day job repairing his rental properties. And keeping it fun, he always end his videos with a signature "Next!" Here's some of his most popular videos.

We've all got key FOBs. Well, there's a lot more to what you can do with them. If you read the owner's manual that came with your car, this is probably in there. My owner's manual looks like it's brand new. I didn't know all this, either.

The biggest difference between a YETI cooler and the cheapo ones is insulation. So with a drill and a can of expanding foam, he makes the cooler better. All you need now is a YETI sticker to put on the top and no one will know the difference.

He didn't do it in the video, but you can do the lid, too. Same idea. As for the WD40 mention, at the end - he has an endorsement with them, so you'll see that a lot.

If you have an older wood fence you know exactly what's going on here. Florida weather can be brutal, and your fence is going to get ugly. This hack is as simple as a pump sprayer and pool chlorine. I wonder how this would work on a deck?

He mentions how old the fence is and yeah, that's gotta be right. Most 'wood look' fences are now plastic. Decking, too. That newer stuff I see installed around boat lifts is just amazing.

I don't normally need to find the center of a board, but here's how to do it. I think this video is so popular just because it's a "wow" moment. I've been (poorly) measuring for years and had no idea.

I'm going to go home and find some random board to measure, just to try this. I always blame my tape measure for being wrong.

I have absolutely no use for this information, but it's so cool. Was the wrench designed with this in mind? I've used an adjustable wrench countless times in my life and I never questioned why there was a hole in the top. WHAT ELSE AREN'T THEY TELLING ME!

I love this video because of the 'What No Way!" This is probably the best tip I've ever seen. Even though I'll likely never use it. There's also a great video on using a dryer sheet to remove lovebugs. Careful if you go to his page, there's a LOT of videos on there and you can go down the rabbit hole deep into the night. But, you'll probably learn something. NEXT!