Woven Weave Landscape Material was a waste of time & money here-WAY too many negatives to justify it’s usage.
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I use the fabric in my garden and have for 6 years…luckily i haven't had the problems with ants or spiders..West Tn
I use landscape fabric (lighter weight) that works well but there were tons of ants when I pulled it up in the raised beds. I have never heard anyone mention ants, so glad you did. I live in Texas so fire ants are prevalent. I only put it back down in one bed for squash and used wood chips in the other two. I use all leaves and wood chips in the in ground garden.
I only use the woven barrier in my high tunnels…it is a pain to remove the stakes each year to fertilize and work the ground, but I am on my third year of using the same rolls I started with so it’s pretty durable. It definitely attracts ants!
Thanks for the videos!
That landscape fabric works well in the north where we don’t have fire ants, snakes or poisonous spiders, it helps to warm our cold or frozen soil but it can be a pain in the backside !!!
Blessings
Hey Patera.. I’m 63 years old I have degenerative disk disease, herniated disk in back and neck. In saying that I couldn’t garden anymore without the woven weed fabric. I’ve used wood chips in the past, where I live in N Mississippi I can’t find wood chips anymore. As far as seeds coming back each year I plant those in my flower beds and around the border of my garden. I’m sorry the weed fabric didn’t work for you but like I said I couldn’t have a garden without it. We have two tillers and all the tools you need to raise a garden, we just can’t do it that way anymore.
Blessings y’all
We found moles under ours here in Roane…who knew? The clay seems hard too. I think adding compost material is important here for that reason. Over the next year, I hope to get some volunteers somewhere other than the compost piles 😉 By the way, we did leave this down in the high tunnel. Overlap well though, TN has a few hardy naturally growing in the area plants! Do you still grow Bonny Best tomatoes?
Glad you posted this as I was considering using that landscape fabric on my new garden. I'll go ahead and pass and use grass clippings instead.
I'm in NJ and used this one time. If crabgrass got a start in that stuff it was near impossible to pull it out. Not doing that again.
Exercise in futility and frustration: Removing rubber-pellet mulch, cutting away landscaping fabric, trying to chip away a few inches of hard clay soil, trying to plant seasonal flowers at my mom's place and then listening to the complaints about how "those plants from XYZ Garden Center never grow." I went on strike and suggested container gardening. LOL
We tried the fabric in West Texas a few years ago, weeds/grass grew Under it and pushed it up…
It helps control my Bermuda grass all the way around the outer edges of my garden area and just between the raised beds. With the woven material around the edged, I only have to dig the Bermuda grass out of the edge areas once a year instead of fighting it all year long. By keeping a three to four foot wide area all around the garden I can now win the fight on Bermuda grass. I tried the regular landscape material and wood chips at first, but the Bermuda grass loves to grow through that type of border. You are correct, different thing for different people. Just like really deep mulch doen't control the Bermuda grass and too much mulch in my area keeps somethings too wet.
Thank you. As a newbie gardener this year I saw videos a couple years ago with homesteaders using it. It was something I thought we could use. I think I will save my money and use grass clippings like my dad said he would use.
I didn't think about what would love living in it!
The soil can now breath. Has a tendency to allow bad organisms to grow. My plants never did well.
Couple years back, I had put down the fabric to keep the squirrels from digging up the seedlings. Inside the small holes I had cut for the plants to grow through, weeds found a way to spread under the material and pop right up through them holes like they had a buddy-system going on with the vegetables. I.I'm sure glad you mentioned the spiders. We didn't have black windows, praise the Lord, but a bunch of big brown spiders that we had never seen before were all over the place and had huge webs all over our yard and the neighbors bushes, too. It was so bad, you'd open the front door to go somewhere in the morning, and walk right into a web in the face. Now I finally know why. Blessings and greetings from Chicagoland.
Love your videos. So full of information
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Sooo use mulch, newspaper and cardboard between the rows?
Plastic ground cover can never be as good as natural ground cover like wood chips and leaf. They also add to the soil unlike plastic.
You have to remove it to amend the soil – the grass (weeds) here in SC grow horizontal and will cover it up if you dont keep it off – but, it sure beats all that weeding
I cannot stand landscape fabrics. The second year the weeds just grew on top of the stuff and the sun broke it down then for years we pulled out pieces from the soil. Rotor-tilling pulled the stuff up for years after we took most of it out. NEVER AGAIN! Give me natural mulches. They break down and make for good soil.
It's been fantastic for me! I made a template and it only takes 20 min to burn 3 inch holes for every 50 feet(length of my rows).
It works the best for larger plants like tomatoes and peppers that are planted on 4 foot centers. No weeding!
that landscape fabric works so well on the floor of a greenhouse, it is easy to walk on and keeps the weeds out, if you don't want it I would love to have it, I am getting ready to build another greenhouse and need it.
Thank you… especially for the reminder that volunteers can't happen with this stuff. I had been considering it but that alone tells me I don't want any part of it.
Ya!!!!! She’s back!!!! An actual homestead video!!!! Love this!!! Woohoo!
I use roofing felt to keep weeds out. I also use paint canvas cloth to cover my hoop rows. It’s so much cheaper.
We have used this material for the last three yrs …same stuff and it has been huge benefit for us. The only weeding I have to deal with is in the raised beds. We live in west TN.
I love your big star behind you with the roosters on it and was wondering where you purchased it from?? I would like to get a couple of them cause.I bought some weed fabric but,never used it yet.I was thinking on putting it around my flower bushes and then stones on top.for decorative purposes.