How To Lay A Weed Mat In The Garden

Lay the weed barrier down.

How to lay a weed mat in the garden.

Installing a weed mat. A weed barrier can greatly reduce or eliminate weeds in your garden bed. Renegade gardener the lone voice of horticultural reason don t ever lay landscape cloth or weed barrier on the ground before planting. Unroll the weed mat on top of the garden area.

Lay it right over top of your plants. 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. First remove all the weeds from the area you want to cover. Install weed matting on the garden.

Install the plant back fill around the root ball with soil and lightly tamp the soil to eliminate air pockets. Measure the size of your garden bed to determine the weed mat dimensions you ll need. Some of the main qualities to look for in a weed mat include durability and resistance against fungus molds and tears. Then roll out the weed mat onto your garden bed and cut it to size with scissors.

Place the newspaper or cardboard over the weeds and the parts of your garden you want to keep weed free. If your ground is a bit hard you might need to use a hammer. Now peg it in place using either metal or plastic pegs. Leave 1 to 2 inches 2 5 to 5 1 cm of space around plants in your garden or in areas you want to put plants.

Lay the four flaps of fabric snugly against the base of the plant to cover the soil. Pull the flaps aside to dig the hole and dump the soil into a wheelbarrow or tub rather than onto the surrounding fabric. Insidious how these product lines have grown. The base covering that will be covered by the weed mat can be soil sand grass pavement or other natural material.

The weed mat covers the cleared area for the pebble garden and makes sure little will grow underneath the weed mat. It s very easy to install a weed mat without any assistance but with a little help can make the job faster and.