How to Use Landscape Fabric or Plastic to Prevent Weeds

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Tricia Craven Worley from DannyLipford.com demonstrates how to lay a landscape fabric or black plastic to keep weeds from growing in your garden.

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Weeds are a constant problem for gardeners. But there are two ways that you can help suppress weeds. One is with a fabric weed barrier and the other with the plastic weed barrier. Now, the California strawberry growers use this every year in there fields to suppress to weeds. Something else that this plastic sheeting is good for is to help prevent the moisture from getting into your basement or foundation. In that event, you want a slope soil about one inch to one foot. Put this plastic down, clip it in place, and then put some gravel on top but back to the fabric weed barrier, here I have already laid some out and staked it. And what you want to do is put a slit wherever you're going to plant a plant or already have a plant such as this little Gardenia. With fabric barrier, the moisture will get through but it will help block the sand from getting through those weed seeds. You want to finish it off at about three to four inches of some nice mulch. And that will help keep the barrier in place and also again help those weed seeds from coming through.
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