Installing Woven Weed Barrier in the Vegetable Garden
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Now that the garden is fenced in, it is time to install the woven weed fabric in the vegetable garden. This weed barrier will make gardening a more pleasant experience, because there will way less weeds. We are reusing the woven ground cover from last year, as well and laying down new weed fabric to cover the entire garden area. We will secure it to the ground with landscape staples and fasten it to the sides the raised beds with furring strips. When we are done, most of the ground will be covered except the small holes we will plant our vegetable plants in.
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Brilliant ideas for laying the weed cloth to have the absolute least weeds possible. Spend a lot of time now, when it's cooler and nothing else is really demanding attention, for less time later on when it's stinking hot and everything wants attention is smart working. Looking forward to watching how your garden grows. :)
Total garden envy! For 30 years I’ve fought weeds and they’ve overwhelmed me every year. I have landscape fabric on order and am very excited to try this out. So glad you showed how you handle the raised beds because I also have a few of them too. Love the overhead view of garden. So impressive ! Thank you so much for this great video. I’m sharing it on Facebook.
Fantastic idea to cut the landscape fabric with a torch, no frayed edges.
My thought too lol
Looking good . No need to pull up the entire ground cover . Only the areas that you'll be planting in to add your compost unless of course you change your planning pattern . I myself would build a tool shed out side of the garden and put an entrance into the garden . Same with the compost pile . Outside of the garden . This way you have more garden space to plant more plants . Well that's just me . I would love to have garden like that . I'll bet you'll be planting all kids of things in the coming years .
A little tip when you go to plant, I used to use a bulb planter to dig out my holes for planting. Last year I bought 2 sizes of small augers from Tractor Supply and Lowe’s and use them in my Battery operated drill, works great and you can go as deep or shallow as you need. Give it a try you won’t be sorry.
I got one, and it will be in the next video. 👍
I did this with garlic last fall and it really saved time and was easy.
I'm using one of the blades from a kitchen mixer on a battery operated drill-works slick! An cheap!
Oh my, from that angle the garden looks huge!!
This is one of the best detailed videos I’ve seen about laying weed barrier in the garden. Very thorough! You must hate weeding like I do. Can you provide a link to the weed barrier you got? I’m hoping there are more videos about how long the barrier lasted, how it did, and your thoughts on that.
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I totally agree with you. In the long run this will help tremendously with weeding. I'm doing this now so next summer will be no weeds. I'm using this in my walkways between my existing beds an not going to plant in these.
It is a very useful blog and very important information about Woven Weed Barrier.
In Central New York State where I am....it is forecast for snow this weekend....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your garden and fence looks amazing.. That "Growers Solution" Polypropylene Ground Cover is the BEST product on the market!!
Evan, that was a good idea about putting those strips around your raised bed to keep weeds out and the garden looks really good. There should be enough vegetables for you and Rebecca for all year. The woven weed barrier will be well worth the effort to control the weeds and you will have a great garden, weed free.
The drone footage was beautiful. Very satisfying work Evan
That drone shots sweet.
Thanks for the video, you gave me some good ideas 💡 👍
You're obviously in it for the long haul.
I'm about to give this stuff a try. Just delivered yesterday and not yet installed. My primary problem is torpedograss, and absolutely vicious weed. I hope it can't get through the good fabric I've purchased, but time will tell.
Dayum, crafting your own staples is pretty ambitious. They don't cost that much.
Fantastic video. Very helpful
Great video! Might consider getting a Garden Stake Installer. Helps to save the knees and back! :)
That's a hugh garden....your a hard worker and those puppies are adorable, hubby and I enjoy watching your videos . ..
Well I am 50+ years old and I have just learnt something, awesome idea to use a gas torch to cut and seal the weed suppressant
You have that garden buttoned up tight! I love it! I need some of that fabric for my backyard!!!
As always you do very nice work. The drone footage was also a nice touch to the video.
Wow, beautiful work
Look forward to your video's! Love your homestead so beautiful out there! Wonderful garden! God bless!
It is a little more work now, but hardly nothing to do later. Perfect, like it.
It looks great! Can’t wait to see it planted. Have Scout and Sidney seen it?Lol!😊❤️🐾❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
From the outside looking in. 😀
Good morning Evan. I asked you a few videos back what type of drone you have and I finally pulled trigger and bought the same one. Would you mind making a video with any tips and tricks that you have came across since you’ve had it? I’ve been watching you for years and really like all of your videos. Hope y’all have a great weekend!
Love the garden, great job. Can't wait to see the garden full!
That is an amazing garden. Really functional but also beautiful. I can’t wait to see how the garden progresses.
I love your videos and your homestead is amazing. You and Rebeccah are such a beautiful couple.
I am planning to start a homestead this year from scratch, for charitable purpose. Thanks you for teachings me. Friendly from Australia.
can't wait until you get it all planted
Another excellent job & I really enjoyed the aerial footage from the drone.
Good job Evan, really looks great, can’t wait to see it all growing. It’s going to be a good garden. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.
Love your videos. Thank you 👍
When I dream of my garden it looks just like yours! Very nice.
Love the aerial view
Very nice. I'm going to use the woven landscape fabric for my garden beds next spring and have learned a lot from your video. The weeds have about killed me this spring/summer. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful garden area!
A great deal of work her at the onset of creating your long term garden space....but as always your work is brilliantly accomplished
Hi Evan. Love your improvisation making wire pegs
Looks good. You are an absolute workhorse!
This is what I want also figure lay it all out put my raised beds on top and my walk ways put my black woodchips my uncle suggested I also put it on top of my above ground beds it’s what he did also and never has to weed. Saves time and our backs as we’re no spring chicks anymore. Thanks for sharing
Well... Here in northern Norway it came like 1/2" of snow today 🙈 So jealous
I love your set up and putting composting bens and a potting shed sounds perfect and another time saver having everything you will need close by. It has to feel very satisfying having your raised bed garden basically completed for your growing season.
Love the garden!!
Awesome work done and stay safe
I love the way do you did your garden it looks great hate to weed myself saved you a lot of time in the future.
Looks perfect. The fabric is what I use for the corn area, on the other areas, I put 2 layers of 8''-10'' of grass clippings. I wouldn't do a garden without some type of weed suppression, too much work ! Thumbs up !!
i like the Perimeter fence. id pit pavestones to walk on down.👍
Garden looks great, Evan. nice job. Aerial shot is really cool.
Nice setup
Love your set up. My wife and I are going to do something similar. I think where your man gate, and the tractor gate are, would be easiest if we put 6x6 in the ground to make a spot to attach the weed barrier to, to give a clean edge for mowing outside. 😊😊😊
We just rototilled the garden so the dirt and compost is very fluffy. If I roll the fabric out on the fluffy dirt every time I step on it my foot will sink into the dirt. How do I deal with this? Might be a weird question but my husband and I want to do this correctly! Thanks for your help.
Best to let the dirt settle and get rained on a couple times to compact more before putting on the woven ground cover. Also the landscape staples won't hold in loose dirt and it will pull up in the wind.
OMG Love it!
Nice job
Looks great guna make life easier
Great job Evan. I LOVE IT.
Wow that's an awesome well thought out garden. Jim excited for you and to see it's progress this year 👍😄
Thanks for making the nice video with great information/tips. I will be laying down ground cover also very soon around my raised beds and rows of potted plants. 😎👍
If you ever have old black irrigation pipe 1 inch or less thickness they work very well to hold netting of any sort nailed or screwed in. Regards Billy from S A
Great job Evan! I'd better not hear one complaint about weeds this year! Lol I can't wait for a picture of the growing garden from your porch. You know, while your enjoying your cup of Joe in the morning, admiring your handy work with no weeds.😉 if your ever wanting to learn about companion planting, Off Grid with Doug & Stacy has a good video on that. Thanks for another great video bud!
I took on an allotment twice which was totally overgrown. Clearing weeds is so satisfying. But then I did not have animals to take care of and all the other stuff you have to do.
I love it! So neat & clean
good stuff
Nice garden my kind of garden did my hole back yard like that cores my yard is only 50x50 with stone love weed free.
Awesome garden my wife and i are jealous lol
Beautiful garden!
Sorry for resurrecting an old post but I just stumbled across it. 4200 sq ft garden here and going to try the woven fabric this year. My fabric is 6ft x 300ft and I'll just cut to length. My question (didn't see it in any of the previous comments) is how hot does the black fabric get during the heat of summer? Our Oklahoma sun beating down on black material looks like it could create a sauna....
GREAT work on the design, layout and video work btw! Love all your videos.
Compost tea would soak through the landscape fabric...no till necessary.
Do you have a recipe.
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You will have to search the web for a recipe.
I have never used it myself.
I believe it involves putting a shovel of well rotted compose in a 5 gallon bucket of water until the nutrients are dissolved into a "tea" like liquid. Then it can be poured around plants in the garden as fertilizer.
JUST WOW OH WOW!
Beauuuuuuutiful !!!!!
Think I would stick with the heavy duty staples, pre fabricated. I bought 200 6” from amazon for $15. They are very heavy wont bend. great investment if you don’t have time to make your own. Loved the video though... thanks for sharing your great garden adventure!
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This looks awesome! You have given me a lot of great tips, thanks so much!
Thx again
Looking good. “I like it”
You have raised garden beds. What are these for? To grow plants for transplanting,? What about growing carrots and onions? Do you plant them somehow in the nursery cloth. What kind of cloth do you use? I'm new at this with a lot of questions. I don't want my hubby doing a lot of work only to find out we need to do differently. Sorry for all the questions but it's time to use the garden planner and get my gardens going! Any help would be appreciated.
Raised beds are good for most plants. I have used the fabrics before for onions and lettuce. I use sunbelt DeWitt 3.2 ounce woven fabric
well I’ll just say this.......I’d even live in Illinois to live on that property, and I’m just a couple hrs away in Indiana along the wabash also😘
Wow, beautiful, but any idea just how much money you have invested in the vegetable protection?
That's a pretty massive garden! I'd like to do a big garden like that. We have the room, but I have no time to can, and my wife won't do it. Maybe some day -- looking fantastic 😊
Evan, where did you get the landscape fabric. Manufacture and size please, cost per roll as well. Garden looks great. Be nice to not spend time later on weeding. Good idea to keep the pups out as well. Thanks again, have a great weekend
I got mine here..😁 www.growerssolution.com/PROD/ground-cover/groundcover
I buy DeWitt 3.2 ounce woven ground cover. 4 foot wide rolls. With 6 inch overlap I have 3.5 foot spacing between rows. I used to buy 3 foot rolls, but I like the wider row better.
Shouldnt u have added compost first? We can't grow anything in our colorado soil without compost
I’m totally jealous of how much garden space you have. It’s looking awesome! We covered our garden space with it too, but all our planting will be in raised beds and containers on top of it. Can’t trust our soil, where the garden needs to be located, unfortunately. And, I cant really work at ground level. But the fabric is awesome, its even keeping the raspberry canes down (they’re super invasive here in OR).
My soil is clay, and I was surprised how well the plants grew in it using this fabric. Give it shot you might be surprised.
Thanks! I wish it were as simple as clay soil. :) It’s more untrustworthy because of what the previous owners may have dumped there. We have five acres, but most of it is wooded. The sunniest spot is unfortunately where there were several old dog kennels that had been stacked full of junk. When we cleared the space, we found big pieces of asphalt that had been poured right into the ground and then buried. But also, I need the height of the raised beds, I can’t get down to ground level very well.
I have a couple questions. #1 How would you use the woven weed fabric for perennials that are already established? Like rhubarb, strawberries, dill, chives
etc? I have fought weeds (especially canada thistle) for long enough! I want to try this method next year. But one end of my garden plot is entirely perennials. I dont think i would want to dig them up just to replant them in the hole made in the woven fabric. What would you suggest?
#2 I can see planting tomato plants or something in those holes you make, but how would you plant things like peas, corn, or carrots? Those are usually planted in rows not just in holes.
great work, very tidy!
Looks grate ,!!!
Great job on the video, hoping to use that material some year soon on our garden. I've heard it's best to pull it up each year so the weeds can't take hold and grow through, is that something you think will be a problem? I guess there are people who do both, not sure what we will do about that, but excited to be able to get some. Furring strips, awesome idea. Should be nice!
New sub...so glad I found channel
It looks great but I’m curious how do amend the soil , I guess you pull it up and put it back down?
What brand of fabric did you use. Looks great. I have a new lot that I’m doing this with. Great info.
GOOD JOB
When I tried to burn and cut my weed fabric it would shrivel so bad, yours didn’t seem to do it. Wonder if it was a dud, it was Dewitt sunbelt
Mine is DeWitt ground cover. Don't try to cut it if is wet on the back side it will give you trouble. It needs to be dry on both sides. If that isn't it, then maybe a different torch with a more precise flame.
Are you at all concerned that Graboids might burrow under the fabric and burst through it when your back is turned?
great job and looks real good...entrance gates?? don't forget a trellis for the green beans
That garden needs planting. It is beautiful.It will be more beautiful with food growing everywhere.
Before I saw you make the staples I was thinking damn them some crazy as staples. Where do u get them? Lol. Nice job.
I have seen many brands and grades of woven weed fabrics. What brand is yours as well as grade? Thanks!
You should use furring strips on the fence also.
You have The Do It Right Way The First Time Mentality! 👍
Where did you get your staples? What brand? I am in Canada and my fabric keeps blowing up. My staples are not that wide. Oh never mind I just watch more of the video. Thanks for that tip on making my own staples. I am on that!
I make a lot of my own staples from number 9 wire. But also purchase 6" landscape staples. Not sure of the brand. I just a quick search on Amazon.com and there is several to pick from.
The short staples don't work in recently tilled soil. You need to wait after it rains to pack the soil back down. Then they work better.