This Canadian layered bug screens on top of each other, and buried them out of sight and covered them with lava rocks or drain rock.
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So, I was thinking outside the box, and layered factory damaged rolls of window bug screens and/or recycled ones from customers that were free to grab. I am not a garden expert but I found landscape fabric to be too costly. I know the fabric will have to be replaced and that part will be lots of time and effort but the years of being able to pull weeds easily because they were trapped in the mulch layer was a time saver. It may not be pretty but for the square footage involved it keeps it manageable and both the cardboard and the composted weeds are adding back. Even when these areas are neglected for longer periods, I can add a new piece of cardboard to the aisles and then just throw the pulled weeds directly onto it to help hold it down. That said – in my vegetable gardens and my nursery area that are not as highly visible – I use cardboard. Additionally, I agree that the mulch layer on top will decompose and actually create a fabulous layer for weeds to thrive but again – you can’t ignore it – I fluff the mulch as I weed and every few years remove it and use if for mixing in with the soil and replace with fresh. They don’t end up with the chance to work their way through the fabric and cement the fabric to the ground. The weed block fabric has made pulling weeds so much easier for me – but it’s because I still do it often. Those aren’t completely ignored years! People put in landscaping and then don’t maintain it. I think the real issue is the perception that it “lasts for 10 years”. In my highly visible bed by the driveway, it has been useful. I have had good and bad experiences with weed block fabric. My experience is very different from theirs. I spent twenty years re-landscaping homes and I lived the nightmare of removing over grown weed barrier fabric on a weekly basis. But they are landscapers, doing installs and moving on. Some landscapers argue this point with me. Keep in mind you’ll need a specific spray to control that nut sedge. Fabric under anything is a potential nightmare. I keep the weeds at bay with spraying and really I don’t have many weeds at all. The stone is directly on the soil, no fabric. I have stone around three sides of my house. But at least because it’s not covered with anything we can easily keep it under control.įabric under stone is a recipe for disaster. Sometimes the plants root out of the container, through the fabric, into the soil below. In the nursery we use a super heavy duty ground cover cloth under our containers. I really and truly am not a fan of weed barrier fabric.
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Best regards, I love your ideas and straight way of telling us how to get the best results in our own gardens. To put it simply, the weed barrier itself became a haven for weeds once the sand had blown in. We hope to have the work completed sometime in mid-summer. My instructions to the landscaper this time is that there will be NO WEED BARRIER of any kind used. I think they call it a xeriscape type of landscaping scheme. After 15 nearly years of fighting the blowing sands and weeds, I’ve given up and am about to embark on a totally new landscaping venture with no grass and minimal plants. We live in northern Nevada with very sandy soil so all landscape material has to be brought in to cover the sand. I used preemergent and all kinds of weed killers but they simply didn’t work very well at all. Then, little my little the weeds started coming. Once done, it all looked so wonderful for the first two to three years. Some was for the plant areas and some was under areas to be covered with various types of rock. We built a new home back in 2005 on a one-acre lot and the landscaper insisted on putting in almost a half-acre of weed barrier down. Mike – boy, you are right on the target when it comes to weed barriers. Secondly, lots of people asked “Mike, how do we control weeds?” So I wrote an article titled Weed Control Facts, just click this link to read that article. So for veggie gardens, weed barrier fabric might be the perfect solution as long as you pick it up before any weeds can root through it. I think one even mentioned washing it. For this purpose, I think the weed barrier fabric would be perfect because it’s not left down over the winter, nor is it left down long enough for the weeds to work their way through it.
Okay, lots of great comments on this topic and some questions.įirst, several people mentioned that they use weed barrier fabric in their vegetable gardens and at the end of each growing season they pull it up and re-use it again the following season. If you put stone over the weed barrier fabric you still get weeds. Eventually, dust and dirt will find their way between the stones and along come the weeds. Same situation as with mulch. With stone, it usually takes a little longer, but it will happen.
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