How To Install Landscape Fabric

With your garden hoe dig up any weeds that are already growing in.

How to install landscape fabric. Step 1 Start By Removing All Vegetation. While you can install landscape fabric yourself there are many scenarios where hiring a professional is necessary or a better value. Step 6 - Add Fresh Ground Cover.

Make sure you secure all edges as well as the places where two sheets of fabric meet or overlap. First roll out a layer of landscape fabric on top of the base gravel to prevent the sand from sifting through the gravel. This helps secure the fabric and helps it blend into the landscape.

Once it is flat push a landscaping staple into the fabric every few feet. Taper the mulch layer near plant roots and tree trunks. Step 4 Securing The Landscape Fabric With Staples.

Youre going to need a big box of landscape fabric pins staples. Push a landscape staple through the fabric and into the ground every few feet. Make sure they are all at regular intervals.

Depending on the size of your project and labor rates in your area this service can cost up to 200 on average. Keep laying the fabric out and repeat the process of notching it for all the plants in the bed. Do not water if you have done so within 24 hours prior to replacing the fabric.

Cut an X into the fabric according to your new garden plan. There are times when the the landscape fabric is not going to be long enough or wide enough to fit your flower bed. Use pins every one foot.