June 10, 201115 yr Does any body know if you can buy black breathable weed mat by the metre I want to lay it around my fruit trees and along the water ways
June 11, 201115 yr Tried it .Don't work. To Thai weeds ,the challenge is not "can we grow through the shade cloth?", it is "how quickly can we grow through the shade cloth?"
June 11, 201115 yr Author I don't think local shade cloth made in thailand ,the ones you see in hardware stores would work it's weak and it would breakdown quickly lying on the soil. I've seen weed mat in Australia used in nurseries , orchards and banks on the roadsides and is quite effective.
June 11, 201115 yr I use coconut husk free from two local wholesalers who are happy to see me carry away their disposal problem. It is good weed barrier until it eventually decomposes, then it's still good absorbent. It takes a long time to decompose, I'm going on a year for the first that I spread. Shade Cloth is UV stable, I've had it over barbed wire fences for several years. The blue plastic window screen also is UV stable. It comes in 2 and 4 meter wide rolls, also 100 meters long I think. Since it is a tighter pattern than shade cloth it may stop weeds Edited June 11, 201115 yr by WatersEdge
June 11, 201115 yr wet newspaper will stop the weeds, put that down and some pebbles to hide the newspaper I would assume you can Google newspaper + weeds if you need conformation Edited June 11, 201115 yr by Lost in LOS
June 11, 201115 yr Hey there h2o on the edge. Do you have a shredder (ooh if dere really is sanny claus he's gonna bring me one one day) (or all my dead uncles will come back to life and be rich and give me lots of bought) or do you just manage these as we do by starting to put circles of whole halves (got to love that term) around the trees. Flailing on a Ford Forever I use coconut husk free from two local wholesalers who are happy to see me carry away their disposal problem. It is good weed barrier until it eventually decomposes, then it's still good absorbent. It takes a long time to decompose, I'm going on a year for the first that I spread. Shade Cloth is UV stable, I've had it over barbed wire fences for several years. The blue plastic window screen also is UV stable. It comes in 2 and 4 meter wide rolls, also 100 meters long I think. Since it is a tighter pattern than shade cloth it may stop weeds
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