Best brands/types of landscape fabric? No, I don’t have a scrap carpet supply and refuse to do newspapers that blow all over the yard. No, I don’t want mulch because I garden barefoot. Online reviews are all over the place from either one star or five stars with nothing in the middle on the same product so makes me wonder who is posting reviews and what their agenda is. Anyway, which brand do y’all recommend?
The main garden has been tilled and hopefully will get the side one done this weekend. Next week will be devoted to measuring and getting the landscape fabric down. We’re supposed to have some rain next week so that’s all good.
I’m getting antsy to put things in the ground so I may be slapped AGAIN by Mother Nature by getting them out too early. A&M says March 15 but this gal didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. Though I’m getting antsy and so are the seedlings. Thinking of making a garden center trip tomorrow to get that landscape fabric, stakes, wire, berries and whatnot.
I couldn’t find peanuts so planted a whole tray of very old ones Sunday so cross your fingers and toes for just a couple to germinate. If just one makes it, then that’s seeds for next year.
We have used Preen from Sam’s club for three years on our plot. It is still good, but wife wants to put down some new because of too many holes in it. I will take it and use it on my raised containers this year. I think it would go 5 yrs, but not done that yet.
Dewitt Weed Barrier, the 20 years kind.
It’s a little pricey, so I spent a lot of time and money looking for a less expensive kind. Every other brand I’ve tried, the fabric disintegrated in less than a year. The carpet I tried is crumbling after 2 years. But I have sheets of Dewitt’s that have been in constant use for 6 years now and they’re still as solid as the day I bought them. I’m in the process of gathering enough of it to completely replace the stuff that didn’t last.