How to Put Down Nursery Landscape Fabric
- 1). Put on a pair of garden gloves.
- 2). Use a garden tiller to break up the soil, weeds and grass over the area you wish to install the landscape fabric. If tilling around bushes or other plants, avoid penetrating the roots. Tillers are available in manual or power varieties and are available for rent or purchase at home improvement stores.
- 3). Rake the tilled soil so it lies evenly.
- 4). Pull any weeds still rooted in the soil with your hands. Use a spade to dig beneath stubborn weeds, popping or tugging them out. Weeds can be put into a wheelbarrow or trash bag and disposed of according to your city's trash or debris removal codes.
- 5). Unroll the landscape fabric and lay it over the area where it will be installed. Cut the fabric to fit the space allotted. To lay fabric around trees or other obstacles, cut a slit from the edge of the fabric toward the spot the obstacle will be once the fabric is installed. Slide the slit around the obstacle and arrange the landscaping fabric so it lays as smoothly as possible.
- 6). Arrange the landscaping fabric so it is flat. Use a mallet to tap landscape anchor pins or stakes through the landscaping fabric and into the ground about 1 ½ inches from the outer fabric edge. According to Backyard Style, insert an anchoring pin through the landscaping fabric about every 3 feet along the perimeter of the fabric.
- 7). Fill a wheelbarrow with wood chips or rocks and shovel the chips or rocks on top of the landscaping fabric.
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