rushdoggie

Excellent! I am very excited, both because I am happy to be finally fixing up the backyard and because I love fresh veggies and I will finally be able to have some.

We bought this place in early 2008 and we had work to do inside, then I did the front yard, so its wonderful to finally get to my backyard.

Front yard is looking good this year!

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blueangel

I would lay lanscape cloth down and cut tiny holes for the plants. I have a friend who does that and she has no weeds.

Alex J

I used landscaping cloth many years ago, I want to say over 10 years ago. Its been about 2 year now that I have had to weed it, and it’s what growing on top of the mulch. This year what I going to do is take it all out and till the land and reapply the landscaping. I would encourage you to first add a thick layer of news paper over the weeds a layer or two of landscaping material then add your soil and compose plant your plants if you want to cover them with a layer of landscaping material or news paper with the news paper you can replant a different plant next year, then you mulch. Have fun!!

May in Jersey

I've used the newspaper weedblock method quite a few times and it really works. Found a Sunday editon of the New York Times worked great, first I pull out abut 10 or 12 sheets, wet them with the hose and then laid them them overl the weeds and rock before adding your garden soil.

jitkaau

Weeds grow through our landscape cloth and the pebbles we have on top of it...

Carol Hupp

Spray the area with round up and leave about a week. You keen to spray when it will not rain for 24 hours. This will kill the weeds. I have two raised beds and I live them. It is so much easier to garden.

JSNOMORE

Lay a very thick layer of newspaper down and soak it with water. The weeds can't get through and it will compost later.

abc123retired

I was told by a landscaper that landscaping fabric doesn't work for planting areas and that is true in my yard. Weeds grow right through it. It does a fairly good job in my dry creek area. Use cardboard and old newspaper.

lass

Use 12 layers of newspaper before you lay the landscape cloth. The nenwspaper will become part of the soil,enriching it and kill anything it is laying on top of. I never dug any beds in my yard for years. Just layed the newspaper, covered with mulch (pretty heavy first year - 4-5 inches) and then planted. Usually I did this in early march or a warm day in late Feb. Was able then to plant in May with no problems. I have even done the process and not planted for a year. The weeds get killed and the mulch makes it hard for them to come back.

PurplePassion

Same here. I have had landscape fabric down and planted in it; did this 12-13 years ago. The irises and daylilies grew into it , so I couldn't did them up and divide them . And the weed seeds and tree seeds fall on top of it and plant themselves. Makes it hard to pull them out.