I am hereby convinced that landscape fabric is too much of a hassle to even bother with. It works only until there is enough humus (hew-mus, not hum-es. The latter is a delicious chickpea dip!)on top of it and then weeds start sprouting and their roots go into the fabric and it's all a mess. I learned this while trying to weed a garden bed that was left unattended for, who knows how long. The hardest part was trying to pierce this fabric to allow a few annuals to grow. PAIN IN ASS!
Landscape fabric is more or less intended to give certain plants room to grow, and then they would take up the mantle of weed fighting. Upon reading
Lasagna Gardening (got it for .99..sooooo worth it anyway) I learned about using newspaper! Sweet! A cheap, biodegradable weed barrier that will break down and feed the soil! It works too!
Simply start saving newspapers. Place them around the bed in layers 5 pages thick. TADAA!! It's a bit trickier to work with until you get either mulch or water to hold it down, and it doesnt come in nice big sheets like other fabrics do. If you were doing this for a large bed you could purchase the end rolls of newspaper from a newspaper printer, and just put down 5 layers of it.
Look it up! Check it out!
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