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How to Install Landscape Fabrics

by David Beaulieu

Secure With Landscape Fabric Pins, or "Garden Staples," Then Mulch

Garden staples for securing weed barrier
Garden staples are used to secure landscape fabric.
David Beaulieu

Landscape fabric pins, or "garden staples" can be inserted through the landscape fabric to pin it down. The landscape fabric pins are usually sold separately from the landscape fabric.

No need to go crazy with the landscape fabric pins; remember, the mulch will help hold the landscape fabric down, too. A landscape pin every ten feet along the exposed edges (and along seams, where you have overlap) should be sufficient.

Now that the landscape fabric is secured, apply your mulch on top of it. Using the steel rake, spread it out evenly.

On Page 8 I'll talk about cutting into your landscape fabric in order to make planting holes.

  1. What Are the Uses for Landscape Fabrics?
  2. Preparing the Ground for Landscape Fabrics
  3. How to Use Garden Hoes
  4. Use the Steel Rake to Even the Soil
  5. Using Mulches
  6. Installing Landscape Fabrics to Block Weeds
  7. Secure With Landscape Fabric Pins, or "Garden Staples," Then Mulch
  8. Making Incisions in the Weed Barriers for Planting
  9. How to Install Plants Through Weed Barriers
  10. Project Complete: Landscape Fabrics, Mulch, Planting

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