WEEDKILLER

white vinegar. use a litre vinegar plus mix in small cup of salt and a few drops of washing up liquid, shake it up well and spray, works on most weeds. you could fit watering can fine rose if you dont have a sprayer

All garden centres sell weed killer.  There are a few on the market.  I've used 2 types and both have been very effective.  The first kills off anything growing on the surface but it doesn't kill the root.  It's fast and works extremely well.

The second attacks the roots but makes a few days to work.  The downside with this is if you have long growing weeds, although it will kill them, it won't dissolve them, it just kills them and turns them brown, so you will still need to go round and pull them out.

Another option is to buy a butane weed burner.  The canisters are around €5 each.  It's a much slower process but you get to the surface and the root of the weed and they don't grow back.  It's excellent for getting at those weeds that grown between rocks in walls.

Have fun.  With blessings

Agree with using weed wand (gas burner), i used to use Glyphosate weed killer which was advertised several years ago as the strongest, cant say i was impressed with it, for last several years i been using weed wand and the white vinegar/salt/ washing liquid mix but its better used with hand held spray bottle, you use less and can target weeds better.

Many thanks for your replies what was the name of the weedkiller you used that turned the weeds brown and kills the roots. 

Off hand I can't remember but anyone in the Garden Centre will be able to assist.  Personally, although it takes much longer, I prefer to go along and just pull them all up by hand.  

I find that in the main, they are all pretty much just surface weeds and come up with roots attached with just a little wiggle and a tug.

blessings

I have 2000+sq mts of gravelled area which gets very weedy which is a nightmare as we are non residents so I spend the whole of my stays weeding. I have dug them out, sprayed them and burnt them but the next visit they,re as bad as ever. I already brought a weed burner from Uk using canisters, but later brought the type which is used by roofers for melting the tar when felting and attached it to a large orange cepsa tank but although it works the pressure is nothing like using the canisters and blows out with slightest breeze. Is there a reason why the pressure is so poor compared to seeing roofers in Uk using similar with a strong flame?.I know we need to deepen the gravel to reduce the weeds as the 68tons we spread were insufficient, but it would be helpful if I could speed up the weed removal either by burning or spraying. I have also been looking for parasene type flame throwers but never seen any advertised in the diy companies. Before loads of people scream "wildfires" they can be very effective over large areas of weeds as my father had one years ago, but I believe they,re no longer sold in Uk, maybe not Spain either. If anyone has seen them please let me know. 

Regards 

Pauline 

Hi Pauline,  how long ago did you put the gravel down and did you line the ground first with a weed membrane, if do, what type?  If it was anything other than the thick blue tarpaulin type sheeting, the chances are that whatever you used may have deteriorated and this might explain all your weeds.

With blessings

Hi, I read a lot of posts regarding membrane usage and many stated they needn't have bothered as they still got many weeds growing on the surface. I used black plastic woven type at home in Uk 40yrs ago, get a few weeds as the many trees I have drop their leaves which over the years have turned to mulch so I do know its usefulness. However a typical Uk garden and 2000+sq mts is a huge difference in cost and I honestly could never have afforded that much membrane on top of cost of 68 ton of gravel. I,m only guessing at 2000sq mts as we have 6000+ but gravelled nearly half just around the house. I have since found a company in Ireland (thanks to youtube) who sell the kerosene flameguns for €250 which I think is a very good price and may order 1to bring out next time and order more gravel too next visit as its definitely too thin. The gravel was put down in 2020, came for 3 months but stayed 9 mnths due to pandemic restrictions etc so had the time to weed, flatten and then spread the gravel. Now I spend 90 days weeding but I have to be honest my big problem is we seem to have inherited in 2021 a nasty crop of brugmansia (angel trumpets) and they freeseed everwhere. If I were here permanently I could stop them scattering seeds but now theres over 50 new ones every visit and boy what huge roots they have. As theres no others on land nearby they must have come with the gravel as they are only in the gravelled areas. These are my nemesis!!. Good job we dont have pets as they are very toxic too!. As fast as I dig them out and with all the roots too, they seed over again in fresh places. Its very windy here most of the time and the seeds scatter so freely. Every seedling can grow to 6ft in just a few months. I,ve even sprayed them with agua fuerte but they still reseed somewhere else. The flamegun at least is more ecological and cheaper to run than gas canisters. 

Regards 

Pauline 

Sounds like you need a Gardener to tend to all whilst your not here.