Re: Using Landscaping Cloth

Steve -- I suppose there are several kinds of landscaping cloth on the market. The kind with which I have experience, which fits your description, permits grass to grow up through it. If left untended, grass can thoroughly permeate it in a couple of years, and then you have an awful problem. I leased a plot of ground which had been covered by the stuff in between vegetable beds. When my efforts with hoe and shovel failed, I had to get the owners to come in with a backhoe to remove it before I could work the ground. If you have or can find a type that isn't permeable by grass, does it permit enough moisture to penetrate?
I use Preen, which does a good job preventing most everything except grass, morning glories and a few broadleaf weeds. The beds that I have, additionally, mulched with an inch or two of fine shredded pine bark -- in early winter after first freeze -- are still virtually weed-free after 2 years. When invasive ground covers or wire grass appear, I dab them with Roundup, using an artist's paintbrush. No drift or spillover, that way. -- Griff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Szabo" <steve@familyszabo.com> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:00 AM
Subject: [iris] Using Landscaping Cloth



I guess that is what one calls it--landscaping Cloth. It is a coarse
type cloth-like material to act as a barrier against weeds. I came into
an amount of it as a freebie and was thinking that I could use it in the
garden where I have my iris planted. The question I have is that if you
hae used it with your iris, how much room do you give them to allow for
growth by cutting holes or slits or what?

The problem is that the weeds here are really getting out of hand, and I
simply cannot keep up with them, so I am looking at a method that may
help me with keeping the weeds at  least under control, if not
eliminated.

Thanks.

\\Steve//

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