landscaper's cloth on weeds

[Threerun]

Originally Posted by DesertRat56

My experience is that the weeds are barely held back by the landscaper's cloth. You have to completely get rid of the weeds and then it will work for about 2 years at which time it will start to disintegrate and no longer keep the weeds out.

Not the fabric we put down. It's been down for years. The problem is if you lay down the fabric and then use an organic mulch on top. Eventually the organic mulch will break down enough to support the growth of vegetation/weeds.

You really need to use a non organic cover like decorative stone, and only cut an X slit large enough to support the desired plant and use a drip system to water that plant (unless the landscape fabric can allow water to penetrate- ours does not do so great with that but we are a very dry climate).

This isn't a great example but you can make it out against the house-





edit- Here's a better shot.



That grey landscape fabric has been down for 5 years. Stone over top. We put in an irrigation line for our vegetable garden and soil was removed and plopped over there. Now we have grass and weeds growing on top of the fabric. We have to rake the stones away and pull that stuff- it's easy it pulls off like a mat.

This past summer I had another dump load of stone delivered to fill in the bare spots and move the landscaping around the back side of our house. Good stuff.

[Esposla]

Thank you for sharing. I can see how the stone worked.
I’ve used stone in another place and working great so far.
I’ve bought more plants today, small azaleas and a river birch tree to put in. Oh, and some evergreen ground cover
To fill in where the annuals died. We had a cold snap here