To be fair, landscape fabric has its place. Unfortunately, it’s widely misused in most home landscape applications, where it ...

Landscape fabric blocks nutrients. You can’t easily add compost, fertilizer, or other soil amendments when a sheet of ...

It does more harm than good. Gardener sparks debate over common landscaping product: 'It seems polarizing' first appeared on ...

The landscape fabrics found on store shelves come in several types and each one has some utility in the garden. Here's what you should know.

Choosing the right mulch for your garden and yard can make a big difference when it comes to fighting weeds. Sometimes, though, aggressive growers will break through the layer of straw or wood chips ...

Landscape fabric for a vegetable garden bed should be woven, to allow water and nutrients to enter the soil, and it should be UV stabilized and heavyweight to last multiple seasons.

Landscape fabric is unfortunately often used in landscaping beds or borders in a garden. But I always advise my clients against its use. Here are some of the reasons why I believe using landscape ...

This reduces the amount of bare soil where weed seeds can germinate and blocks sunlight, inhibiting weed growth. This ...

Landscape fabric, once considered the magic bullet for keeping weeds out of garden beds, is proving to be as much of a problem as the weeds it supposedly was to stop.

For many homeowners, spreading mulch is part of the ritual of tidying up the garden after the growing season. Some will use landscape fabric under the mulch, in the hope that it will prevent weeds … ...

Johnny's Selected Seeds While landscape fabric isn't pretty, it smothers weeds. Johnny's Selected Seeds' Pro9 5 Weed Barrier landscape fabric is stronger than the lighter fabric found in box stores.

Many homeowners use landscape fabric (also called weed barrier) throughout their landscapes to minimize weeds. Landscape fabric restricts the light required for weed germination (since weeds seeds ...