Landscape fabric can be a tricky product. Generally made of woven polypropylene, it is often used under gravel pathways to help limit weed growth. Despite the ubiquity of this application, there are ...

Landscape fabric is often sold as a permanent solution to your weed problem. Professional landscapers and home gardeners alike are accustomed to laying it down underneath a mulch layer to create a ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. What is the best way to install landscape fabric for weed control in a ...

For chemical free weed control and for use under mulch, put away the clear or black plastic and get out the polypropylene landscape cloth instead. Known as landscape fabric or garden cloth, there is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As I wandered the fields of our Maine farm before a winter windstorm, grabbing tattered scraps of greenhouse plastic and spun-bonded row cover, I noticed a ...

Some lessons in gardening have to be learned the hard way, a case in point - the myth of landscape fabric. I recently observed some new landscaping of large garden beds that were being covered with ...

Working smarter and not harder is a mantra of knowledgeable gardeners. We do not like to put time and effort into something that will not produce the results we desire. My example this week is the use ...