# Leveling patio blocks and preventing weeds in seams without herbicides **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 24, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leveling-patio-blocks-and-preventing-weeds-in-seams-without-herbicides/964994 "2022-05-24T12:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leveling-patio-blocks-and-preventing-weeds-in-seams-without-herbicides/964994/28 "2022-05-26T12:10:19Z")
Here is a short thread from 2006 which includes some relevant advice and anecdote. > [@Anyone have experience with "instant" patios?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-experience-with-instant-patios/365209): > > Next month I’ll be moving into a townhouse with a small, fenced-in backyard that I hope to somehow turn into a patio. I remember seeing a couple of products in a catalog that seemed like they’d do the trick, and I found them on the Taylor Gifts website (I know, I know: Taylor Gifts isn’t known for high quality): [patio pavers](http://www.taylorgifts.com/prodetail~cat~patio~itemNo~22984C~ID~.asp), and [patio blocks](http://www.taylorgifts.com/prodetail~cat~patio~itemNo~22231B~ID~.asp). Does anyone have experience with these things? Or enough general experience to recommend/warn against this sort of thing? My intent would be to leave the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leveling-patio-blocks-and-preventing-weeds-in-seams-without-herbicides/964994)._