Control Garden Weeds With Landscape Fabric

Are you tired of weeding your garden on a weekly basis? Or if you are one of those who don't regularly weed your garden, are you disappointed with the look and production of your garden? Well if you are, read on ...

Weeds can choke out your garden and dramatically reduce your garden vegetable production. However, it can be a pain to regularly weed your garden.

When planting a garden consider using landscape fabric for vegetables that you plant individually. It is ideal for planting tomatoes, peppers, summer squash, broccoli, cauliflower and other individual plants. Landscape fabric is ideal for controlling weeds, it's inexpensive, and it helps keep moisture in the soil. It also helps to keep the ground warmer around the plant enabling faster and shorter growing times.

You can find landscaping fabric, (a.k.a. as geotextiles) at any home improvement or garden store. Landscape fabric typically comes in rolls approximately 3'x50' or 3'x100'.

To install the landscaping fabric in the garden, roll it out the length of the row or the length of plants you want to plant. Next, using a shovel cover the ends and sides of the landscape fabric with soil.

Using a knife cut an X into the fabric where you want to plant the vegetable plant. Using a garden trowel simply dig a hole where you made the X cut, and plant the vegetable plant. Water the plant well after back filling around it.

Note: It's best to fertilize the soil a week or so before you install the landscaping fabric.