What can I spray after I have pulled all the weeds out?

[Lily2811]

Apologies as I think this has probably been done to death but I can't find any threads about it.

My front garden is concrete and stones (yeah pretty grim but I rent so can't change it) and the weeds are crazy. Obviously I pull them all out and then they just grow back. So what can I do to stop them growing back? Can anyone recommend a product I can spray all over after I've weeded?

Thanks!

I really don't think I'm being unreasonable for wanting a tidy front garden. I think the trouble the trouble the environment is in at the moment is down to the desire of the human race to impose its desires on he rest of the inhabitants of the Earth. Although not the worst problem, we'd all be better off if we could get rid of the urge for "tidiness" - look for example at Plantlife's Roadside Verge campaign. plantlife.love-wildflowers.org.uk/roadvergecampaign

I think the trouble the environment is in at the moment is down to the desire of the human race to impose its desires on the rest of the inhabitants of the earth

Yes exactly. Here there has been quite a change now the farmers have stopped spraying the verges. The wild flowers are flourishing and there are many more birds.

Iam reading Dicken's Miscellaneous Papers at the moment he describes a meadow as having so many butterflies in it they look like "waves on the sea" !!!!

Can we even imagine that !!

When I was a child, whenever I wanted to look at butterflies I'd go to look at the sedums, where a single clump about a foot across would have perhaps 20 butterflies. Our urban lawn had a list of species that you would nowadays expect only in a carefully managed conservation hay meadow, and was regularly visited by a green woodpecker. My mother complained at the hedgehogs keeping her awake at night.

A couple of generations back, children were meeting the trains at Horton-in-Ribblesdale with bunches of lady slipper orchids for sale. Now there is a single wild plant in the whole of the UK.

Each generation measures habitat and diversity loss by what they grew up with.

Our children will be measuring the health of the environment by what they see around them today.

Funny how I took them for granted when I was little. At least now we are all aware of the preciousness of our wildlife (or we should be).