Laying Turf Over Weed Mat

If you water and feed the lawn well you shouldn t have room for weeds because of the grass growth.

Laying turf over weed mat.

Prevent weeds from pushing through your new turf by laying weed control fabric on top of your prepared soil. What about laying a new lawn over my weed infested area. Now place each plant pot on top of the weed mat and trace a circle around it with your marker. If you don t have a lot of weeds in your garden you may not need to put down a weed mat.

Renegade gardener the lone voice of horticultural reason don t ever lay landscape cloth or weed barrier on the ground before planting. Once you have done all your planting finish by covering the matting with 5 10cm of mulch. The turf is acting like weed mat but lets the water and air into the soil. Organic or inorganic mulch is usually spread in a thin layer over the top.

Weed removal before laying down the weed fabric prevents mature weeds from continuing to grow underneath the fabric. Spreading pea gravel use a 2 to 4 inch layer of pea gravel to cover. I m a horticulturalist and i wouldn t even use weed mat in gardens for the reasons discussed above i d definitely take the weed mat up and turf. What began years ago as landscape cloth designed for vertical use behind boulder walls to keep soil from eroding through the wall has evolved into any number of weed barrier products that homeowners are.

Dealing with the odd weed that does manage to get through synthetic grass won t take up too much of your time and you aren t likely to suddenly develop a major weed problem with this kind of turf. Insidious how these product lines have grown. Granted i am going to dig up as much as i can but if i chuck the topsoil down lay the turf and then make extra effort to maintain it will all the weeds just sprout through and make my time and money spent a complete waste. Draw an x inside the circle and cut along those lines.

Now fold back the four corners to make the hole for your plant. Lay the fabric strips one at a time staking each one into place with 6 inch u shaped metal staples every 3 or 4 feet.