Weed Mat Or Cardboard

How to use layers of cardboard as a weed barrier in the vegetable garden.

Weed mat or cardboard. Rather than using herbicides landscape fabric or plastic sheeting to control weeds in your garden or planting beds try putting down cardboard instead as a green solution. Renegade gardener the lone voice of horticultural reason don t ever lay landscape cloth or weed barrier on the ground before planting. To use cardboard as a weed barrier in your garden. Standard mulches prevent some weed growth as the weed seeds cannot access the light they need to germinate.

Click show more for m. Or if you fancy yourself a realist cut down drastically on the amount of work needed to take care of weeds. Weed fabric rarely works and is often a really really b. Overgrown full of weeds and in this case surrounded by a barely surviving lawn.

Getting rid of weeds in a new or overgrown bed may seem like more effort than it s worth but there are ways to simplify the process. With the cardboard make sure it is not glossy or waxy finish as it will prevent decomposing and is not eco friendly you will get several benefits. A free biodegradable alternative to landscape fabric is to use simple old cardboard. This idea is derived from the concept of sheet mulching.

Here is the problem. When we purchased our home the overgrowth was so established there was enough soil on the roof of the chook pen to keep many earthworms contented. The weed mat isn t biodegradable and pieces will start to come out and fly around. What began years ago as landscape.

A cardboard weed mat is perfect for a garden that is in a complete state. Weed control is a constant battle in many home gardens. Cardboard is applied to the area. Cover the ground with weed barrier fabric put mulch or bark dust on top and never worry about weeding again.

In permaculture sheet mulching can be done to reclaim an area of land that might have been weedy or even covered with grass. We still have several more areas to go. Insidious how these product lines have grown.