Re: using fabrics

At 01:39 PM 1/7/2006, susannah wrote:
Richard F. Dufresne wrote:
How does landscape cloth differ from greenhouse/nursery ground cloth? I have used tar paper to line French drains that surround my raised beds and wonder if the latter will work as well as the landscape cloth...Ground cloth works wonders for me for controlling weeds under tables, inside and out.
The cloth I'm talking about is somewhat mesh-like, and allows water to drain through, unlike tarpaper.


 I don't know what nursery ground cloth is. I suppose I'd use blue tarps
under tables, because the are easy to sweep or to pull out and shake or
hose off, and they're sturdy.



Ground cloth is woven of nylon, I think, as opposed to poly(propylene) for
the common blue tarp. The weave construction is similar, a checkerboard
pattern of long, narrow strips of extruded polymer. The individual flat
threads are much tougher (tensile strength, or tear strength, and UV
resistant) than the blue tarps. They wouldn't last a year under tables any
better than tar paper.





Richard F. Dufresne

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