Weed Control Fabric Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Weed Control Fabric Helps To Control Weeds Without Chemicals
By Pixie Matthews
Weed control fabric is applied to cover a dormant garden or a
landscape and kill weeds without chemical weedicides, helping
to prevent weeds seeding and growing before you have a chance
to seed your garden in the early spring.
Weeds are found in almost every garden. As soon as you pull them
out, they start growing again and in a few weeks, they are all
over your garden. One way to keep out weeds, is to stop them from
growing altogether. You can place mulch in the immediate area
surrounding your growing plants, leave a little space for your
plants to breathe, and prevent weeds growing in your soils under
the mulch.
Once the vegetable patch has gone bare towards the end of the
growing season, this is the time to roll out your weed control
fabric.
Preparing Your Garden For Winter Time
When summer is over, all of the flowers are spent and leaves
are falling, it’s time to prepare the garden for winter. There
are bulbs to store or divide, leaves to rack for composting, beds
to weed to prevent sprouts you’ll be battling big-time next spring.
Don’t forget the gutters and perhaps a couple of loads of brush
to haul away. With fence repairs and roof checks, you’re pretty
busy. By the time you’re done, the rains have come and you’re
done in the garden until spring.
Weeding Without Chemicals
Of all garden tasks, weeding probably holds last place in the
gardener’s list of things to do. Tedious work it is and repetitious
as well. Only the most fastidious weeders ever eventually rid
the garden of weeds, until a few new ones blow in on the wind.
Weeding is much like doing the laundry. No one notices, unless
you fail to do the task. Although there are various chemical products
available to target weeds, more and more people are becoming aware
of the potential dangers of using such chemicals in their gardens.
Keeping Out Weeds From Landscaped Areas
This perspective doesn’t change the gardener’s opinion on weeding.
So what’s the solution to eliminating the frequent weeding chores?
Weed control fabric offers multiple benefits in certain kinds
of garden situations.
In landscaped areas, where you’ve got shrubs, small trees, roses
and other perennial plants, you may have significant amounts of
bare space between your plantings. This is a perfect situation
for weed control fabric.
Lacking Oxygen And Water, Weeds Cannot Grow In Areas Covered
In Fabric
The dark colors of weed control fabric also warm the ground,
useful in areas where heavy frosts persist in winter. This cloth
also allows you to plant a few days earlier in spring, if you
want to put in some annual herbs or flowers along a pathway. Just
remove the cloth, turn the soil and plant! The soil will also
be less compacted, especially with clay soils.
Another outstanding virtue of weed control fabric is that you
do not even need to weed the area before laying down the weed
cloth. Lacking oxygen and water, those weeds will be deader than
a doornail in a couple of weeks, without you lifting a hand or
resorting to chemicals.
Rolling Out Your Fabric
Weed control fabric comes in rolls of a few standard widths and
lengths, such as a 3-foot wide by 50 foot long roll. The fabric
is virtually impermeable and is available in green and black.
All you need to do is roll it out, covering large areas of bare
ground as you cut to size. Leave an opening around your plants
sufficient to water. For example, rose bushes need a watering
area roughly the diameter of the branches. With a stand of pampas
grass, just cut the weed control fabric right up to the edge of
the planting.
When you’ve covered that area of your landscaping, your weeding
days there are over, excepting the errant weed showing up in the
rose bushes come spring. Easily and swiftly dealt with for at
least a week, if you’re a perfectionist.
Cover The Fabric With Mulch
All that’s left to do is cover the weed control fabric with a
2-3 inch layer of redwood bark, pine needles or whatever mulching
materials are readily available in your region. Whatever mulch
you choose adds to the looks of your landscaping and provides
additional warming for the ground surrounding your plantings.
Using this long lasting, multi-purpose fabric this fall takes
one disliked task right off your list of spring gardening activities,
freeing you up for fun tasks! Spending more time with your family,
rather than spending hours weeding.
Keeping Your Garden Plants Healthy
There are times when you need to undertake certain tasks to maintain
your garden. Like keeping your soil healthy, planting your growing
plants where there is plenty of sun and providing plenty of water
and nutrition for your growing plants.
Before you grow plants in your garden, you need to think of reasons
you want a garden. Do you need a garden to grow flowers? Do you
want an organic garden to grow organic fruit and vegetables?
Do you need a greenhouse where you can grow flowers, herbs, fruit
and vegetables all year round? Once you have made your decision,
then you need to look for ways to maintain your garden and keep
out pests and weeds.
Keeping Out Pests And Pets From Your Garden
Pests may be caterpillars, aphids and other insects. There are
also dogs, cats and other animals that may enter your garden and
cause havoc. If you want to keep an organic garden, then you do
not want to use chemical pesticides or harm animals and your pets.
To keep out pets and other animals, you can use a gadget that
makes a noise when it approaches the gadget in your garden. One
example is the Easy Gardener 8021 Garden Defense Electronic Owl
- Sound and Motion Sensored and help keep pests stay from your
garden.
To keep out weeds, you can take measures to stop them from growing
in your garden, by applying a weed control fabric.
About the Author:
Pixie Matthews has written a number of articles on gardening and
landscaping including Organic
Vegetable Gardening, Vegetable
Gardening Tips, Spring
Vegetable Gardening, Compost
For Your Vegetable Garden, Vegetable
Gardening Tricks.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Little Known Farming Facts....
What is farming?
Farming is actually referred to as agriculture.
The practice of agriculture has been around for roughly 10,000
years. It encompasses livestock, plants, fuels, pharmaceuticals
and even illegal drugs and exotic products. Farms produce most
of the products that you would typically find in a home.
From the trees grown on farms for building
purposes to the herbs that you season your food with, agriculture
has a monumental impact on everyone’s daily lives. It is hard
to be entirely self-sustaining. At one point or another you have
to buy something that is agriculturally produced that you cannot
provide for yourself. There are only a few places in the entire
world that agriculture does not take place. Science has played
a remarkable role in how farms have changed their planting and
growing techniques.
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