Does Weed Fabric Really Work in the Garden?
Does Weed Fabric Really Work in the Garden?
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Oh yeah, yesterday I just bought some for my little garden and I feel much better about my purchase. I’m doing a cucumber teepee in my garden big yield little space 😉
We need to start burning things in this country. I know people can be careless, but we have to come up with a solution so the fire won’t spread. Burning will destroy fungus, bugs and diseases to the plants and humans.
I’m sorry are you talking about my back yard with those invasive weeds?
I can’t find where to ask you a question and I hope you see my question. How do you plant things back in the holes like tomatoes. How do you dig a big enough hole to get it into the dirt but not a big hole in the fabric? Maybe you have a video. I have been toying with the idea of using this.
Hello do you get any snakes 🐍 under the fabric?
I agree with Kimmies991, I like the ‘organized’ look as opposed to a more chaotic ‘forest’ approach. I’m pretty ‘Dress Right Dress’ like that, lol! Here in South Texas we have the same type of ‘invasive weed’ problem as you, our pests are Fire Ants! I like the way you guys take on the ‘tuff’ questions, no guilt, no pressure, just this is what we need to do on our property where we live. Honest, straight forward advise and solid information sharing. Be blessed!!!
I use my grass clippings. Usually 2 layers at least 10” each time. No weeds but the bagging the back yard is a pain !
This was very helpful — we are debating what to do in our garden this year. Thank you!
We have been fighting Trumpet Vine for years since we took out the plant…
What fabric are you using? Love your videos, very informative and easy to understand. Thx
Enjoy your videos. Nice your’e in Missouri , I’m in Okla..so climate is close. Retired so I’m just fooling around but going to put in a couple hundred tomato and pepper plants. FYI, I think I’m gonna hot burn X patterns or cross patterns rather than holes….should allow me to easily put in my transplants yet improve weed control around the plant bases. I’ve had back surgeries so weeding just isn’t a promising future…LOL…. so far maybe $20 in seeds, bukoo transplants ready and a couple of hundred bucks for fabric and pins………like I told the wife….I waste more than that in one day at the casino…so I figure ….even if it my gardening time is all for not…….I probably still come out ahead. 🙂 Keep on keeping on !!
Have you tried grass clippings on top of the weed fabric? My tomato plants have started turning black. Should I remove all the mulch?
You get problem with mealy bug
Can you hill potatoes using this method? And how to do it?
Thanks for answering my question
Hi, what should I put on top in bare garden areas? Woodchip? Low rain high desert area? I want to leave it year round. Decorative rock costly I think.
Great looking garden. I’ve never heard of taking up the fabric in winter, but I think it might be a very good idea. Just being out of the UV for half the year should extend the lifespan somewhat. I think I would mark the ends of the stored rolls with the hole spacing – if they differ for different crops.
Very interesting. Woven ground covers and silage tarps are new materals to me. But I have been using black plastic. It works very well. We have most of our rain in the spring so its hard to work the soil or plant. A saying among older gardeners here is mudding peas in because it’s so wet early in the year. I started using plastic to keep part of the garden dry enough to plant in the spring. It realy worked. I also found how well it killed weeds. In a new garden spot I mulch/mow it, water it thoroughly and cover it during the summer. Later in the summer I pull up the tarp and plant a cover crop. Then I mulch/mow the cover crop and cover it for the rest of winter. In the spring I start rolling the tarp up as I plant. Weed seeds in the top of the bed have sprouted and are gone and there are lots of worms. We have morning glory a real bad thing. Most of them are gone, some sprouts are still there. We pull them the soil is loose and we easly pull up three or four foot runners. They don’t go away but they are more easly kept in check. For long term plants like tomatoes and cucumbers I plant in holes in the plastic. The black plastic dosn’t last long two or three sumers if you realy take care of it. But it’s hard to water and you waste most of the rain. So I am going to try wolven ground cover for planting and silage tarps for additional weed control and preparing the ground for early planting. Maybe silage tarps and cover crops would be a good addition to your garden plan?
Do y’all leave your weed barrier down and plant in the same spots the next year?
Great follow up viedo
Curious do you till up the garden before placing material over garden?
To control ticks…get guineas. They eat thousands of ticks and other insects but will not damage your veggies.
Do you have a link to the landscape fabric you are using?
I use fabric in my garden and will be using a wood chip layer this year in a test garden area to see if I like it or not. Year 1 without the fabric was weed city. Year 2 with fabric was much better but you do have to keep after it. I had weeds and crabgrass coming up through the plant holes and the holes where I put in the staples to hold it down. I use bricks, milk jugs filled with water and rocks to help hold the fabric down just to avoid putting holes in it. I roll it up in the fall, load the garden with compost and manure, till it in and the fabric goes back on in the Spring.
Do you use pins on the sides or just at the ends of fabric? Thanks
Great video! We laid out a rectangle 30′ x 15′ to kill the grass in our back yard over the next few weeks. The plan is to pull it up, rake the dead grass/weeds out, then use a broad fork to loosen the soil. We’ll put the woven fabric back in place, lay out 4 rows @ around 26 to 30" each, then plant some butter crunch lettuce, arugula, lavender, and hot peppers. The area gets full sun all day and we will come back with some videos on our progress. Thank you so much for the tips!! Keeping you and your family in prayer for a good harvest…God bless!!
I bought some. Next year…
What about fire ants and snakes underneath the fabric.
Thanks for the video, very helpful. We are experiencing the same mulching with straw, pine bark or wood chips. It doesn’t matter how much mulching, even with cardboard underneath, we just can’t contain the weeds so considering a similar approach 🙂
Possum will eat hundreds of ticks a day . They are a gardeners friend .
Did you grow corn with the fabric? I’m assuming you went by the recommended spacing of each plant and when you burned the holes in. Did you plant seeds or plants?
From watching your videos on this I decided to try this in my 24×65 garden. I hope this works for me too. Thanks guys!!
Would you guys still recommend it if mulch is put on top? This is the first time I’ve heard people say anything positive about it, already laid it in my flower bed and small vegetable garden, and I have a massive pepper garden that I was planning on laying it down on and covering with mulch. People are saying it harbors a lot of nasty stuff below where the plants roots are and that it prevents you from being able to amend your soil, how do you guys deal with that? If you’ve covered that before, sorry, just found your channel. We have so many weeds that I really want this to be okay to use, the soil I’m using had tons of weed seeds mixed in from a year of neglect 😞
Get guineas they love ticks
I mulch on top if the weed guard in my paths, and the worms go crazy breaking it down. after 4 or 5 years, I should take up the fabric and hopefully have controlled the wild morning glory. Those roots of that creepy chocky go 6 ft down.
Loved your video! Very informative! I visited your Amazon store hoping to see what exactly kind of landscape fabric y’all are using..but I didn’t see it there ☹️ Is any ole cheap fabric okay? My gut tells me probably not! Would love to know what brand, thickness, however landscape fabric works!
I’m using the woven landscaping fabric in our garden. I will let you know if it works for me in my garden this year. Thanks for sharing.
OK, guys, I have the woven wed fabric that I got for the veg garden, but now the Elusive Lovely Bride wants to use it under a flower garden with mulch on top. I know this will probably help to degrade it more rapidly over time, but will it affect the weed blocking abilities? Growers Solution is not clear about the differences between the Polypropylene Ground Cover (which says you can put mulch on top of it, and the DeWitt UltraWeb 3000 that I bought for the veg garden.
Any hints or advice for the pretty garden cover?
I love your channel and you two are awesome! I have a couple of playlists and save all your videos! Thanks and God Bless You both
It is some work ,but i would tie a string on all the staples about 12 inches long ( good nylon string) and have a loop on one end and make a hook so that you dont have to bend over all the time and you can hang them in the barn on a rod for next seasons crops 🙂
I started using ground covering in the mid 70s. as for the holes for the plants, i first used a coffee can to punch holes in the covering, This was a real pain. next year i sliced a cross in the fab. and folded the corners back and threw a little soil on them if i intended to plant seeds and once they broke ground folded the corners back to the plants.
Can I use weed fabric with sweet potatoes?
Will I need to till every spring/? I usecd muchroom compost in the fall, and tarped to protect my soil. I will remove the tarp in the spring and the use the weaved ground cover, will I need to till first ? Or can I just plant ?Thank you sooooooo much
Yeah, buying mulch every year gets EXPENSIVE
What brand ground cover fabric did you use?
What kind of blow torch do you use, and where was it purchased?
Great video, just recommended to you from the folks on the Hoss Row-by-row group on facebook. DId you use the 3.5 oz or 5 oz fabric, I am about to order and am not quite sure which to get. Also, did you get 3 or 4 ft widths?
ticks and fleas, get you some fire ants. When I was a kid the ticks and fleas were horrible here on the farm. The fire ants moved in about 1980. bingo no more ticks. Just control the ant mounds with orange oil.
Yesss!!! So helpful!! I just have a personal garden but I own my own business and never have time to weed it. It’s always overgrown. I can’t wait to try this!!! *eeek*
Thank u for providing an update on how the fabric worked for y’all, appreciate it!