It really does help to keep the stones clear if I put salt down before a rain. I buy the bags of water conditioning salt from the grocery store, because that is the cheapest way to get large quantities. It only lasts a couple of weeks before new grass grows back over the place I've treated, but spot-salting is pretty effective.
There is a twisted corner of my mind that gets a giggle out of doing it. Continuing the "Labyrinth as World" metaphor, when I pour salt on areas so that I kill the grass, I am become War or Pestilence. It's not often you get to think of yourself as one of the Horsemen.
I created a Santa Rosa Labyrinth © (designed by Lea Goode-Harris) in my back yard in 2006 with the help of my son and two girlfriends (one toted rocks, the other talked me through toting rocks). My teenager did the lion's share of rock moving. My husband did the greater part of the mowing and weed eating. In Spring of 2010, my patient husband had the whole thing mulched and we replaced the rocks. It is available for walking by anyone in the area who needs the use of the space.
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