#LANDSCAPE FABRIC INSTALL#

It seems everywhere you look you see unsightly landscape cloth that is flapping in the breeze in someone's garden. Landscape cloth makes your garden look bad. Once weeds get rooted into and through the landscape cloth, they are next to impossible to remove without ripping up the landscape cloth and making a big mess.Ĥ. They blow around the neighborhood and land in your garden once there, they grow downward through the landscape cloth. As far as landscape cloth being a weed barrier, it turns out that many, if not most weeds get into your garden through the air. In a healthy garden, an inch of mulch should decompose every year and be replaced,ģ.

This is exactly what you don't want to have happen. The landscape fabric isolates the mulch from the soil below preventing the mulch from decomposing. Mulch generally is applied on top of landscape fabric. Plants will struggle and many will eventually die,Ģ. With fabric, plants are forced to grow roots along the surface directly under the fabric to get water. Landscape fabric inhibits water from getting to the roots of your plants. Using landscape fabric is actually a gardening myth that does more harm than good and creates maintenance nightmares. Somewhere along the line, it became hugely popular for many people and landscape companies to use landscape cloth as a socalled 'weed barrier'.

Here is the story about landscape fabric. If you are ever looking for one of my Ask The Landscape Professional articles, you can go to my website where you will find over 200 listed in the 'Learn' section in a key word searchable format. I seem to recall, you have written about that before, but I can't locate the article.

#LANDSCAPE FABRIC INSTALL#

My husband is getting ready to install a new planting area in front of our house and just came back from the store with a roll of landscape cloth.