How To Use Garden Mats

We then unroll the mat all the way to the other end and pin the far two corners down using two more garden mats staples.

How to use garden mats.

Garden mats make it easy to lay out and plant your garden. How to choose your mats the organic gardener s choice. Lay it right over top of your plants. A weed barrier can greatly reduce or eliminate weeds in your garden bed.

We then place a staple on each side every three feet. The mats are designed to be flexible so you can mix and match what you plant in all of the patterns but we ve noted below the optimal mat for each crop. The mats serve as a weed barrier and are fully biodegradable according to garden innovations. So for a 6 foot mat you will need six staples two in each corner and two in the middle on each side.

We use garden mats staples and pin the mats down in each corner. Unroll the weed mat on top of the garden area. Weeding a vegetable garden can take hours of your time and new weeds seem to sprout as soon as you get the old ones pulled. For large plants such as bushes and trees stop unrolling once you reach the trunks or stems.

And while each pattern can accomodate a wide variety of plants we have suggestions for the optimal pairing of mat and veggie. All have like minded mixes of seeds that grow under the same conditions. Garden mats are designed for versatility.