I ripped this entire piece out in one go. It might be the best feeling I’ve ever had in my entire life. The entire length of my house.
by seuce
I ripped this entire piece out in one go. It might be the best feeling I’ve ever had in my entire life. The entire length of my house.
by seuce
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I feel your pain. Youngest me thought landscape fabric was great for inbetween the raised garden beds. Younger me realized youngest me was an idiot and got rid of the landscape fabric. He left a pile of it in the middle of the pathway to remind me not to be an idiot. Thanks for the reminder younger me.
Ahh, the devils clothing. Landscape fabric is the worst, it should be banned by governments. 20 years from now we are going to learn that it was terrible for the environment and we all kind of knew but tolerated it.
It’s the biggest scam!!
Previous owners must have put it in my backyard. I’m literally playing tug of war trying to get oriental bittersweet roots out and pulling up fabric like what the heck? what is this crap? My son was like who buried a tablecloth? 😆 And it obviously didn’t stop the weeds!!
Amazon gives you a cardboard box with every order! Or you can grab cardboard from Aldi’s or Costco 😁
That stuff should be called “landscrapping” fabric.
The only legitimate use for this stuff is for French drains, to keep soil out but let water through. Any other application is just stupid. Including the one in my yard where they wrapped the drainpipe directly in landscape fabric and totally skipped the gravel fill part. Clogged up in a few years and now I’m digging it out and replacing it with high-transpiration plants instead.
I’m currently rehab’ing 6 expensive azalea bushes thanks to this stuff
This is my future. Peipe owners put down a white plastic weed barrier, soil, THEN the fabric, folloaed ky beaty bark ontop. So instead of enjoying and maintaining the garden they heartfully built…ill be spending this summer pulling as much of this as i can without utterly destryoing the plants.
Its a gorgeous garden whe everything is blooming to. Its part of what sold me on the house. But i groaned loudly when i saw the fabric…the rest was a surprise when i was weeding and taming the strawberries that ran out of the garden bed. I found the white plastic when digging to get all the roots. Sigh.
I thought you found an anaconda skin
I can’t stand this stuff, it only makes the weeds try harder.
Oh god I FEEL this. Previous owners lined every flower bed with a combination of this, plastic bags and heavy black rubber. I also found some of the plastic you put under rolling chairs around a bunch of plants. It was like “yeah, no wonder the gardens look insane.”
I still find pieces of the black rubber…
I get the Shakespeare reference
It’s easy to have this perspective when you didn’t have to establish the garden bed… but when trying to put in a new 12’*80′ bed where it was all bermuda grass, it was impossible without years of smothering. One year I removed all of the top grass and put down 6″ of mulch, bermuda was back through it in like 2 weeks. I put down a black plastic 6mil sheet for 2 years and smothered the whole area to kill the bermuda and when I removed it, the roots were STILL ALIVE. There were runners EVERYWHERE just waiting to re-establish! So after all that I sprayed everything with sethoxydim, I put down like 6 layers of cardboard, and then landscaping fabric, and then mulch. Of course, bermuda still makes it through sometimes still, but it’s little enough that I can pull it, and out will come like a 3′ bermuda runner that has just been snaking around to find an opening. The landscaping fabric has to stay, at least for a few more years, otherwise the mulch is just not enough to stop the bermuda. In a few years, I may pull the landscaping fabric, but after literally 3 years I am finally able to plant stuff in my garden without it being completely taken over.
This makes me feel better I’ve been slowly ripping it out of our current house that the last owners put it. Everywhere I’ve looked to learn how to start a new garden they say put it down and I was wondering if that extra step was worth the hassle.
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Had a pine tree die and when I removed it I found river rock under. Removed the rock and found that damn fabric. Then under the fabric, another layer of rock and fabric!
No idea what the previous owners did, my assumption was the rocks filled with dirt and needles so they just put fabric down and more rock.
IDK I like it, it doesn’t keep out 100% of the weeds, but it’s better than nothing