A gardener installs plugs in a garden bed covered by landscape fabric. - Virrage Images/Shutterstock Landscape fabric is often sold as a permanent solution to your weed problem. Professional ...

Landscape fabric is touted as an easy way to control weeds. This plastic fabric blocks weeds and reduces maintenance, goes the thinking. This may be true in the short term, but landscape fabric has ...

Many homeowners use landscape fabric (also called weed barrier) throughout their landscapes to minimize weeds. Landscape fabric restricts the light required for weed germination (since weeds seeds are ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For gardeners with a lot of area to plant or homesteaders planting edible crops, using landscape fabric can cut down on the need for weeding ...

Landscape fabric, once considered the magic bullet for keeping weeds out of garden beds, is proving to be as much of a problem as the weeds it supposedly was to stop. On the surface, the theory behind ...

Landscape fabric. It’s what goes under the mulch. Right? I’ve had several conversations with home gardeners looking for a permanent solution to keeping the weeds down, and each time I warn them about ...

Landscape fabric may sound like a neat, tidy and easy solution to all your weeding woes, but, as often is the case, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. To be fair, landscape fabric has ...

Weeds in pea gravel aren't just a surface problem. A commonly skipped construction step makes all the difference in long-term ...

The traditional way to get rid of them is with a hoe, shovel and strong back. Today, woven-fiber landscape fabrics are the rage, for various reasons. They are light, easy to install and, unlike sheet ...