Re: mulch

I think when landscape fabric is used intelligently, it could be a boon.
I've used it under bark paths.  Your use around your roses works.  But I
know that you stay on top the conditions and would never let it get to the
ridiculous point I described. LF is a tool of gardening.  Tools are just
that, tools.  They can be used for good or evil.  LF is generally used for
the latter, though, without the idiot even realizing it.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Zemuly@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] mulch


> I'm lucky to have a couple of pine trees in my yard.  As I said, however,
I
> need to rake them instead of cutting them up.  I do use them around my
azaleas
> all the time.  I put landscape cloth in my rose bed several years ago
keeping
> it away from the plants, but it really is cloth and, so far, has worked
like a
> charm.  I use some mulch over it, but not much.  I also put soaker hoses
> under the mulch around the base of each plant.  The past two years I have
not had
> to water them at all because we have had sufficient rain.  All the roses
are
> antique varieties and are huge.  They are in full bloom now, and they are
> really beautiful.
>
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
>
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