RE: Weed barrier cloth

Jennifer,  you are quite right.  I used weed barrier cloth under sand and gravel for my pathways and the floor of my greenhouse.  As discussed earlier though,  any seed that falls on the gravel will root and grow shallowly.  Of course I'm not adding organic matter to my gravel paths (what a waste that would be!).  I've never used a weed barrier cloth in a bed that I am preparing and planting, but I think there are landscapers who do.  I don't know how deep they put the barrier or if it works.  There is one benefit I can think of - those weeds that seed into the gravel pull out very easily.
 

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Design Nursery
Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
Portland, OR  Zone 8b

 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [mailto:owner-perennials@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of ColumbusGardener@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 8:46 AM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: Weed barrier cloth

Don't weed barriers and the like make the roots of plants stay toward the
surface and not go down?  And it seems to me that there would be a limitation
in the breakdown of OM in the soil because the cloth keeps things off the top
of the soil?  Just curious.

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Jennifer White                      
Georgia Master Gardener  
Columbus, GA                       
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