How To Install Landscaping Fabric

Then secure the edges of your landscaping fabric by including joints where the fabrics meet.

How to install landscaping fabric. Pins and fasteners are a great way of securing the landscape fabric to the ground. When the fabric reaches the area of the shrub cut out a notch large enough to accommodate the shrubs base. Youre going to need a big box of landscape fabric pins staples.

Newbies often buy a few bags of 10 pins to hold the landscape fabric down but really youre going to need a heck of a lot more pins than you think. Smooth Ground Before Installing. This video I show how I landscaped part of my property with landscaping fabric and river rock.

While you can lay the landscaping fabric on any kind of ground it is a mistake to think it will stay intact. Edge your landscape area by digging 2 to 3 inches around the garden area or creating an inward slope to be sure water reaches your plant underneath the landscape fabric. Make sure the fabric lays completely flat.

Cut slits in the landscape fabric to accommodate existing plants in the area. Once its laid the last step is to bury all the. Insert a landscape pin every 8 to 10 inches along the edges of the fabric and every 12 inches apart in the center of the fabric.

Its easy to install and well tell you how step-by-step including some important information you need to know about the products that are available. Any twigs rocks and other debris that is on the ground when you install the landscape fabric will tear it. Make sure they are all at regular intervals.

Lay sections of landscape fabric over the area working from one side of the site to another. Adjust the notch size so that the landscape fabric encompasses the base of the shrub. You need to pin the fabric.