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Love it! Curtis how are you anchoring the fabric? I farm in a windy area.
Really….Salads like candy when you are done being sick….Super kids.
Hey I need some advice! I tried this last year and it was a big fail! The fabric kept shifting and slightly covering entire rows of plants and weeds found there way through it eventually and the sun destroyed the integrity!
Do you recommend this if you have heavy weed pressure
Great Idea!!
What holds the fabric to the ground so that it stays straight and does not blow in the wind?
Do they stick together after you burn the holes in them?
A template or plan would be really useful. 🙂
So the burnt plastic doesn’t effect the soil? I’m not sure how healthy that is… it seems too good to be true…
Can you use the paper pot planter first, then cover with the prepared landscape fabric? Is the paper pot planter accurate enough so this will work?
Does the plastic 'shrink back' to the edges of the holes, or is molten plastic ending up in the bed?
Can this method be utilized from seedling? Meaning not as a transplant method but straight from seed?
Im thinking about making a template for a small raised bed 3×12 and make maybe a 5 on center for carrots.
How can you use this in combination with the Jang seeder?
How many different hole patterns do you use? Different for every crop?
are you using anything to anchor the fabric down to the ground? I'm sure it would be fine when all the plants get a bit bigger, but I'd be worried about a gust of wind shifting or blowing up the fabric and damaging the plants, especially the new plugs.
Love you mate. You saved us a lot of time.
Excellent. What did you plant ?
Just a quick list of the by-products of burning landscape fabric made out of petroleum based plastic such as PET: Water, methane, acetaldehyde, ethylene, formaldehyde, methanol, acetone, benzene, terephthalic acid, styrene (ethenylbenzene), ethanol, toluene (methylbenzene), xylene (dimethylbenzene), ethylbenzene, naphthalene, biphenyl and phenol. These compounds being organic chemicals will bind to the soil. You can accomplish the same work with an exacto knife without melting the plastic.
Thank you so much for the good ideas!
Question: how would you suggest to hold the fabric down in a windy place? Stakes worked half the time, but blew away several times when i used this as my walkway a few years ago. I have room for about 9 strips of these in my garden and would like to use them as you have instead… but when that wind comes… Im doomed!
That's the "Ray Tyler" method man, glad you are finally on board!! 😀 Cheers & happy growing!
do those fabrics stay in the ground all season or do they get moved to a new plot as needed?
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Thank you so much for sharing your ideas. Great Job!!
can i use the lumber yard clastic that is used to cover piles of lumber. i have lots of this plastic.
Melted plastic gets thicker at the edges reinforcing it I'm sure. This is good
doesn't the layers of fabric melt together
Is the soil get contaminated with burning the weed fabric?