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  • From: tanis cuff <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cardboard and assorted weed barriers
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:51:12 +0000


Nice heads-up re carpet & winter, Alan. I've seen synthetic carpets used as
pathes or mulches and they ALWAYS make a mess-- hard to remove if/when you
want-- and always looks awful.

For newspapers, I've found 8-10 sheet layers are needed to slow down
rhizomatous grasses, and larger areas than you intend to open up if you want
to kill the grass. I aim for 50% overlap of 4-5 layer pieces. If you want
to till the area in autumn, use no thicker than 6 layers.

Some mulch, most any kind, is needed to hold down the newspapers. Also to
hide it from woodchucks which want it for nesting material.



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> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:14:26 -0500
> From: alandhaigh@gmail.com
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] cardboard and assorted weed barriers
>
> I've always been a bit squeemish about herbicides and so I've used all
> manner of weed barriers to establish the fruit trees I install and to
> protect my garden. I've used cardboard for years as have many gardeners as
> well as newspaper, and carpet. Sometimes I use landscape fabric. Pretty
> much whatever I have around- I never let newspaper or cardboard leave my
> property, unless it's to mulch some trees I'm installing. I'd be a bit
> reluctant to use cardboard for raspberries for fear it would deter emerging
> plants so I use the flimsier newspaper for that. If there is any kind of
> drainage issue I use very porous landscape fabric- don't want to interfere
> with the transfer of oxygen for carbondioxide.
>
> Old wool rugs or carpet works great, as long as you pull it away during the
> winter- rodents love it.
>
>
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