How To Put Weed Mat

Here are the steps on how to put down a weed mat.

How to put weed mat.

Areas covered with landscape fabric need some maintenance to remain weed free over time. Once you have done all your planting finish by covering the matting with 5 10cm of mulch. Now place each plant pot on top of the weed mat and trace a circle around it with your marker. Pull as many weeds as possible.

Leave plants in place. The key to growing healthy plants is to duplicate nature. Put plants in through the weed matting. Any organic mulch applied over the fabric inevitably breaks down into soil creating fertile ground for weeds and grasses.

Clear the garden area of debris and mulch. Don engebretson a minnesota garden writer and designer argues that weed barrier cloth is worse than useless. It s insidious he says how popular its use has become. Pull as many weeds as possible.

Weed seeds can still sprout in the mulch used to cover the fabric. Lay the weed barrier down. Clear the garden area of debris and mulch. While the fabric blocks seeds beneath it from sprouting new seeds can blow in and depending on the type of fabric their.

For good long term soil health there needs to be a cycle of returning organic matter back into the soil to be broken down into a food source for plants. Soil and dust that blows onto the top of the fabric can build up and eventually support the germination of weed seeds. But getting back to porous weed barriers they serve no purpose except to make you rue the day you put it down on the day you want to move a shrub plant a new shrub or plant perennial groundcovers around the shrubs. Put down a weed mat on a calm day after you have prepared your soil for planting as necessary.

In nature a tree falls down and over decades it gets sucked back. Put down a weed mat on a calm day after you have prepared your soil. What began years ago as landscape cloth designed for vertical use behind boulder walls to keep soil from eroding through the wall has evolved into any number of weed barrier products that homeowners are encouraged to lay. Place the newspaper or cardboard over the weeds and the parts of your garden you want to keep weed free.

Using a good quality mulch is a much better alternative and will allow your garden to flourish. Now fold back the four corners to make the hole for your plant. Like rocks weed mat serves as a barrier to stop the organic matter from getting into the soil.