Is It Good to Put a Spunbond Nonwoven Weed Control fabric in a Garden?

Weeding a vegetable garden can take hours of your time, and new weeds seem to sprout as soon as you get the old ones pulled. A non woven landscape fabric can greatly reduce or eliminate weeds in your garden bed. Selecting the barrier and installing it correctly ensures it doesn't interfere with the healthy growth of the vegetables while still providing maximum weed protection.

The advantages of weed barrier mat
Non woven weed barrier fabrics prevent most weeds and lawn grasses from growing into the garden bed, drastically reducing how much weeding you have to do. A non woven weed barrier can completely prevent weeds, depending on the type of barrier and installation method. Barriers installed beneath the soil, such as in a raised vegetable bed, may not stop weeds from rooting in the soil above. Barriers laid over the top of soil stop almost all weeds and also help retain moisture in the soil, which reduces how often you have to water.

Weed Control  Types
Non Woven Landscape fabric lasts for up to five years and is often used beneath the soil in raised beds. It isn't suitable for above-soil use because it gets torn during the annual replanting of vegetable plants, which allows weeds to penetrate it. Plastic mulch covers the soil surface and lasts for about one season, making it suitable as a surface barrier in vegetable beds because you'll replace it each year. Layers of cardboard or newspaper (not the glossy pages) can also provide a barrier beneath or above the soil. These break down quickly, but the decomposing paper does benefit the soil.

Weed Conrol Installation
Installation methods depend on the location of the barrier. Barriers installed beneath the soil, including those lining raised vegetable gardens, must be laid over the ground in an unbroken sheet. Overlapping sheets at the seams and anchoring them with metal stakes prevents weeds from breaching the barrier. When laying barriers over the top of the soil, overlap the seams and anchor both the seams and the edges of the barrier so it doesn't blow off the soil. When applied over the soil surface you must cut a hole in the barrier for each vegetable plant.

Digging and Planting
After the non woven weed control fabric is in place, you won't be able to dig the soil, so do all your digging before spreading the fabric. If you want to spread landscape fabric on the base of a raised vegetable bed, break up the soil at the base of the bed with a garden fork and lay the fabric on top. Then you can fill the bed with a soil and compost or manure mixture for growing your plants. On the other hand, if you plan on spreading landscape fabric on the soil surface, dig the soil first before laying the fabric. After you've anchored the fabric in place with stakes or stones, cut X-shaped holes with a sharp knife. Open the center of the X, and dig a small hole with a trowel to plant each vegetable plant.

Rayson is a professional factory of making PP spunbond non woven fabric. The weight of weed barrier fabric is from 50gram to 150gram in black color. The popular size is 1m x 50m. Actaully the sizes can be customized. The spunbond weed control fabric is biodegradable, and UV resistant. It is popular in Us and European markets.