How to Install Weed Plant Barrier Cloth for Protecting Garden Vegetables
Keep weeds at bay without chemical sprays or laborious hoeing and pulling. Blanket your garden beds and borders with mesh weed plant barrier cloth and mulch that lets air and water into your growing vegetables while suppressing weed seedlings. This article gives you a step by step guide to install weed barrier cloth for effective organic weed control.
How to Install Weed Barrier Cloth to Protect Against Weeds
- Examine your vegetable garden and select the areas you wish to plant out. You can use weed and plant barrier cloth on any bed, except those you replant often with annual flowers or vegetables.
- Sketch out your garden on graph paper, including any existing plants so you'll know where to leave openings.
- Prepare you garden bed by pulling out all of the weeds. Pull up small weeds or spray them with an organic weed killer.
- Wait a week or as per spray instructions, for the sprays to be effective, and then remove the weeds altogether, turn the weeds under or add them to your compost pile. It is important to note that the more weeds you remove from your vegetable garden now, the more effective the cloth will be later on.
- You can buy mesh fabric weed barrier by the roll and cut it yourself, or have pieces cut to fit your bed's sections. Do not overbuy as you will not need any extra. Just buy what you need to cover your vegetable garden and stretch it out.
- Lay cloth over your cleared soil and bury it at the edge of the bed. Use mulch such as pine straw, bark or gravel on top of the weed cloth to hold it in place.
- Rake the mulch back once or twice a year and inspect the cloth for shifting. Pull it back into place and replace the mulch as required.
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