Thinking about laying landscape fabric to stop weeds for good? Carol Barany explains why it may do more harm than help — and ...

Landscape fabric can help suppress weeds but deteriorates over time. Learn more about using and removing landscape fabric before adding fresh mulch to landscape beds.

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 ...

Tired of hosing the garden? Not so happy about what those sprinklers are doing to the water bill? There’s another way to keep gardens damp that’s both less work and easy on the water budget – drip ...

Many homeowners use landscape fabric (also called weed barrier) throughout their landscapes to minimize weeds. Landscape fabric restricts the light required for weed germination (since weeds seeds are ...

Q: We want to put down weed barrier in our landscape, but we just heard it is not the best idea. Can you explain why and tell us what does work? A: The great debate! I’ll just say it up front, I am ...

Your tidy rock bed looks low maintenance on day one, then a season or two later it morphs into a stubborn patch of crabgrass, dandelions, and mystery seedlings. The same stones that were supposed to ...

It’s great that many people are replacing lawns with low-water landscaping. But along with trees not getting adequate water, one concern is the widespread use of weed-barrier cloth, including at the ...