On the plus side: manufacturers claim that landscape fabric can save on resources, whether that’s water spent on plants, money spent on renewing gravel surfaces, or time spent fixing potholes.
On the negative side: landscape fabric might be overkill for larger applications like gravel driveways unless the soil needs reinforcement. It’s also a questionable and potentially irksome solution for long-term weed suppression.
To help you decide whether or not to use landscape fabric, we’ll cover the reasons you might use landscape fabric and the reasons you might not. Then we’ll go into more detail about where it can be used and which varieties are available.
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