Should you dislike weed pulling and want to curb the amount of time you invest bent over your veggies doing this dull core, landscape cloth that is black might be the answer you’ve been looking for. This artificial woven cloth lasts for years because it smothers weeds while more expensive than plastic mulch. A roll can provide coverage for a small number of planters or containers, should you small vegetable gardening. Landscape cloth might also be a rewarding investment for smaller to vegetable plots.
Vegetable Plot
Unroll the cloth and cut it. Typical rolls may run 3-by- feet or 100 feet. Lay the landscape cloth down beginning at one edge of the plot or raised the weave on top and bed with the side down. Overlap each row of cloth. Hold the cloth in place with a landscape staple, one .
Wherever you would like to place a vegetable seedling cut X’s with a utility knife, each arm of the X in the cloth about 4 inches long.
Put on gloves and hold the X’s flaps up with a single hand. Trowel a hole at the dirt below the X with the other hand. Lay the root ball of the vegetable through the X and at the bottom of the hole. Cover with soil and let the flaps of the X collapse back softly against the stem. Cover with bark mulch or wood chips.
Containers
Lay the landscape cloth on the top of container or a round pot to similarly protect it from weeds. Cut the landscape cloth into a big square slightly larger than the container. Fold the cloth in half and then in quarters.
Lay the cloth so the folded corner is at the center of the container. Cut a arc along the folded edges. Unfold the cloth that outcomes.
Put the cloth over your potting soil, inside the container’s rim, and reduce X shapes to plant seedlings. Hold the landscape cloth circle set up with borders of tomato cages, bark mulch, picture staples or stones that are salvaged.