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 ...

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Landscape fabric also gets in the way of creating truly low maintenance and self-sustaining systems. You won't be building soil health and maintaining a healthy soil environment to help plants thrive.

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 is not needed beneath mulch to block weeds, and it may become unsightly over time. “With landscape fabric, you could unknowingly create a desert for your plants,” Yiesla said.

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 restricts the light required for weed germination (since weeds seeds are in the ... Email gardening questions to [email protected]. For more information, ...

Second, landscape fabric is usually laid down and then holes are cut to plant the plants. Each time a hole is dug, weed seed is brought to the surface in the soil and scattered on top of the fabric.