The number one thing I have been asked this year is “what is that black stuff.” So here are all the landscape fabric questions answered! Never weed again with this great garden tool.
Amazon Links to Landscape Fabric
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This is for 4 foot wide fabric, we went for 5 feet to have overlap, but the price was good on this. They have 3 foot for a lot cheaper, but I think that would be too small for properly covering a garden bed.
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Landscape staples to pin it to the ground
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Tiger Torch to burn holes in the fabric
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My Canadian source for specialized market garden tools and the landscape fabric
https://www.duboisag.com/ca_en/
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Great video elaborating on the cons and pros of the fabric. Weeding is a headache even for a few plants for me.
Also, you're not getting any sunshine under the fabric which encourages more fungus.
PS: Glad the comment section is active now. Congrats.
Can the fabric be reused? Or does it only last one season? Do you end up destroying it / tearing it up after harvest & uprooting everything?
Hi guys question about how do you keep the ground fertile under the fabric especially using the same hole year after year or so you pull it up till and so on?
You have done an absolutely wonderful video and service to us home gardeners. Thank you!!! We no till and currently use wood chips which makes it easy to reduce weeds and to pull the weeds that do appear. They seem to get nasty though, toward the end of the season. Your video is excellent!!! Thanks for taking the time to educate us.
The link to the fabric no longer works. Do you know the brand name you used?
You have comments now!
Super helpful. Thanks!
Happy your comments are back! Yeah
I think I like your video.Gardening stories, voices, etc.
I'm always grateful.
You can have the landscaping fabric for rows, if you use something to keep the fabric tight around the plant stems, or if you use weights to keep the fabric close to the ground. More cost, but doable. And in the case of using clotheshanger clips, you need for the plants to grow somewhat, before adding the fabric. I saw many people have different widths of fabric, for plants with different spacing, using rocks to keep them in place. Also, you can look into perforated plastic, which is not woven, but still has tiny holes for water to get through it and into the soil. As for the bugs and fungi, you can probably use rocks or something else to prop up the holes a but off the ground, to allow airflow and so beneficial insects can work their magic.
Thanks. This was really helpful!
I have considered trying this but haven’t really spent time researching it. My biggest concern is chemicals leaching from the plastic, the catalysts that are used in the process to make it. I garden for healthy food and it’s my “exercise program” so I guess i’m sticking to the old fashioned way. Ugh
The link for the landscape fabric just goes to Amazon main page not the item itself. The torch link and landscape staple links both work
Fantastic – thanks for sharing !!! I have not seen this topic explained so well.
How is the landscape fabric holding up after 2 years? Are you still satisfied with it? Is there any possibility you could convert to Charles Dowding's no-dig method? Excuse me if you already answered any of my questions. I just started looking at your channel and am catching up on older videos mostly out of order.