Most gardens contain at least some paved areas, and it doesn’t take long before a newly installed patio or path succumbs to weeds growing through the cracks. Weedkiller is the obvious answer, but these days… well, many of us would prefer not to go there.
You could weed and weed and weed, or you could use a ‘weedwand’ for a more excitingly testeronic way of whacking the weeds, but creeping thyme is an ideal long term solution.
It’s a low-growing, invasive, crevice-filling variant of the esteemed culinary herb that will over time crowd out other patio, path, and driveway invaders.
It’s easily able to withstand being stood on - in fact, this will release the distinctive thyme aroma - and it’s even decorative, having striking purple flowers.
If you look at the cost of a small plant, you may well balk at the idea of using thyme as a patio weed suppressant, but remember - creeping thyme creeps, and you can always divide existing plants to get new ones, so planting a few now will pay dividends in years to come.
And, you’ll have an almost endless supply of one of the most quintessentially English of herbs.
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