When I read The Secret Garden I was a bit disappointed. The title was misleading, if you ask me. (This coming from a guy who named his blog the Smartest Garden?). I didn’t get any gardening tips from it at all! We all like hearing a good gardening secret that can take our planting a to the next level. Here's a twofer. Mine is a secret weapon against weeds in your driveway cracks and also a killer booster shot tomatoes and peppers. Epsom salt. Part 1: Weed Killer I like keeping things as green as possible around my family. I try to use the minimum dose of chemicals for the maximum return on my lawn. Same is true for my long concrete driveway and a side gravel driveway. The cracks in the driveway often become planters for unsightly weeds, as does the gravel. Back in the way I'd DDT them with Roundup or the like. That changed when my boys entered the world. Throwing rocks at each other is dangerous enough without adding herbicide on them. Besides Roundup smells like f
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