has anyone used a felt to control weeds in their vegetable gardens? if so i'd love to hear the pros and cons....where you bought it and prices. i'm a great planter but not a very good weeder!!! thank you!
That sounds interesting. I have never heard of using felt before. I am not much of a weeder either. So I like to use either straw or newspapers (which works best) between the rows to keep the weeds down. I look forward to hearing what people have discovered about using felt. I would think it would be expensive for the size of my gardens though.
If it's anyting like the balck weed barrier fabric, it's probably not worth it. I am going to get a big roll of black plastic to use in my big garden around the melons and cucmubers. I might even put some down the beans and peas and corn rows too. But in the smaller garden I am going to use newspapers and feed sacks. Gotta do that this evening.
Let us kow what you find out about it. I have heard of people using old carpet too.
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Posted - May 20 2010 : 12:19:58 PM
I have used old carpet it was great. But for between the plants it is newspaper and straw or saw dust or grass clippings. Diana
i also posted the question to my facebook and i got negative feed back all around! sigh....looks like i need to get better at weeding! the feed bags is a great idea...i have a ton of them and straw!
I had to use old carpet over area where poison ivy was all in the grass ....then i love the newspapers for between rows. I am putting newspapers down all this week . I miss Souther states being 5 min friom me. They moved to across town and is a 40 min drive for me now to get straw :(
I put down a couple layers of newspaper, two layers of burlap (in the walkways I add limestone). I try to keep straw out of the garden unless it's contained in potato planters because of mice, voles and other little munchy creatures.
A weed would have to be a fool to try to break through that!! lol Of course - it has to be redone every 2-4 years depending on your climate.
gardening "felt"?
Posted - May 20 2010 : 09:13:03 AM
