Over time, landscape fabric creates more problems than it solves. Here's a nutrient-rich mulch type you mightn't have heard ...

Looking for an eco-friendly alternative to landscaping fabric to suppress weeds? Try this low-growing herb that smells great ...

Normally seen as food waste, these shells are actually a great weed barrier with benefits. Because they're a popular snack, ...

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What do you think of landscaping cloth or newspaper as an additional barrier under mulch? A: Not much when it comes to landscaping fabric. Even with the microscopic holes, I've found that it shuts off ...

If you feel like landscape fabric is too expensive or wasteful, grab this item from your bathroom that's functionally similar and serves several purposes.

What goes behind a retaining wall matters just as much as the blocks you can see, and choosing the wrong material could ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As I wandered the fields of our Maine farm before a winter windstorm, grabbing tattered scraps of greenhouse plastic and spun-bonded row cover, I noticed a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A recent article addressed a reader’s question about growing cucumbers and concluded that these heat-loving vines are difficult to cultivate in Northeast Ohio. By the time the soil ...

After several years of being covered with landscape cloth and rock, this side yard was weedy and very unattractive. Photo by Fredricka Bogardus, Colorado Master Gardener Many homeowners use landscape ...

Landscape fabric or “geotextile” is useful for protecting steep slopes from storm and wind erosion, is effective in commercial crop production and, for the home gardener, it can be used to form a seal ...

Landscape fabric may sound like a neat, tidy and easy solution to all your weeding woes, but, as often is the case, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. To be fair, landscape fabric has ...