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Landscape Fabric Mulch Penstemon

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Landscape Fabric Mulch Penstemon Garden Answer handmade: My experience from living in the deep south where rain and heat and humidity and weeds are rampant every year, is that landscape fabric is usually a waste of money and effort in putting it down. And here's why: When putting mulch on top of the fabric, eventually weed seeds germinate in the mulch and grow on top of the fabric, defeating the purpose of the fabric all together. And weeds will even come up occasionally from under the fabric. And it is so aggravating to be working on someones flower bed and try to dig a hole for a new plant when I find there is fabric underneath the mulch to cut through and deal with. What works best for me is to put down a think layer of pine straw (baled pine needles) on a flower bed. This chokes out all weeds and grass, with the rare exception that can be pulled or sprayed. It should be replenished every 6 months by just throwing a little new pinestraw on top of the old. It will be thick at first, but will settle down to an acceptable thickness in a week or two, and if you don't like the look of pine straw for mulch, you can top it off with a layer of the mulch that you prefer. The only way I would ever suggest using fabric would be if the situation is one like a you-pick tomato location, where the fabric would be put down on the tomato rows and left exposed, where no top mulch is needed. In this case, fabric can work very well. Having said all of this, the situation for weed control in other parts of the country may be different than where I live, and the landscape fabric usage may be more feasible than it is down here in the panhandle of Florida. .. One day, I would like for you to make a vid of all that you maintain, and how you do it and hold down a job at your nursery. Maybe sharing with us a schedule of your work at home from day to day, or letting us know if you have help with the vast flower beds to do it all, etc. Your videos are awesome and keep up the good work.
Date: 2022-07-16

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Comments and reviews: 9

Heather
What are the brands of landscape fabric and staples do you use? We have super aggressive weeds that scoff at our puny attempts to prevent them from growing up and through the landscape fabric we have been able to find, locally. Since we live in a rural area, we aren't adverse to shopping online for almost everything we need in the line of specialized products. I enjoy watching and re-watching every one of your videos, and, even, hooked my eleven-year-old granddaughter on your videos when she visited earlier in the summer.
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Melissa
I love watching your videos so much. Thanks for the weed fabric tip. I know there are weed fabric haters but this stuff is amazing. Weeds are ruining my life right now since we just built our house last year. We had a lot of bare dirt and a very wet spring so the weeds are out of control and have taken so much time to deal with. I cant wait until I have weed fabric down, drip line installed and the areas mulched! It will be amazing!
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Adrian
Im trying to attract hummingbirds and read they love morning glories so I started some from seed in the house then I read just yesterday they have rhizomes (like bamboo) and drop seeds so once set in you cant ever get rid of and in some places its very invasive. Nope. not for me got rid of it after it started wrapping around our blinds. & i was getting ready to plant it in the yard since it was a warm day. Lol.
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Cathy
Landscape fabric is bad for the soil and microorganisms, worms etc. The worms cant reach to the soil surface and to have healthy soil. The better alternative is to place cardboard first and then place mulch over it. The worms can reach the surface through the cardboard. Also after what happened to my boxwood after last winter (winter burn and winter kill) I would NEVER grow boxwood in zone 5.
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Aram
As a gardener I love your videos, but I am super against landscape fabric for keeping weeds down. Once a weed seed lands on top of the landscape fabric that's it, the weeds' roots will be so entrenched in the fabric they will be impossible to take out. I'd love to hear your response to this!
Thank you very much for all your videos and all your information!
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Angie
I found you by watching the thuja evergreen wall since Im putting about 25 in my yard next week and now that Ive found you I cant stop watching your videos! Your yard is GOALS for real. I just wish I had the knowledge and $$ for all the things I want to do, also you made me laugh when you ate the small tomato that fell! Thats something Id do
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kingsukbrahma
Thanks for this video: it was very informative!
Could you please also include the following info:
1. The black mulch that you used: a link for that (and its price. Does that only come in bags or can it be ordered in bulk?
2. The soaking tubing that you used from HD: a link for that would be much appreciated as well
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Octavio
That morning glory is the most invasive pain in the butt weed I have ever dealt with. The roots run 2ft deep sometimes. The roots snap easy so you never get all the root out and where each root snapped and stayed in the ground will grow another plant. You create 10 weeds for ever 1 you pul out
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211ssw
How is plant called 'gara' 'guara' or what you just planted. Is it same plant you have in the triangular bed surrounded by hedge that you did video with your battery run trimmer & did review on- question is about plant in center. It sounds like same name but has white flowers & is quite tall.
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