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Please, please DON'T do this. Salting the earth to avoid weeds is the most misguided, dangerous, environmentalism-gone-awry I've heard all day. If there's weeds, there's water, and dumping salt on the ground means nothing will ever grow there or near there ever again for about 10,000 years.

Wiki says "Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on conquered cities to symbolize a curse on its re-inhabitation."

Even Homer Simpson knew this:
Ned: Excuse me, neighbor. I couldn't help but notice, you picked pretty much all of my flowers!
Homer: Can't make a float without flowers.
Ned: Oh, sure. But did you have to salt the earth so nothing would ever grow again?
Homer: Heh-heh, heh-heh ... yeah.

Hate me for saying it, but roundup is deactivated in the soil within hours. Or pull them out. Or torch them. Or redo your weed barrier. Or wash the dirt off the rocks with water. Or deal with it. But please please please don't think that because salt is "natural" its okay to go dumping everywhere.

I put one in my place right away. Moreover, I took out the $17 three hole and put in a soap dispenser, filtered water tap, and pull-out high arch single hole faucet.

On account of my no-dishwasher kitchen, I'm not sure I would have survived with that crappy old faucet. Though I made it through a year in the UK without even a mixing tap. Oops?