A Weed-Free Garden IS Possible!
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- A weed free garden is possible. Today we talk more about the woven weed fabric that we've been using for 4 years now. We love it so much. Today you hear all the details about it.
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Hey there, do you have a link to where to get your garden fabric?
Yes, in the description section of this video.
Click on where it says, "SHOW MORE." That will drop down lots of information and the links you're looking for.
Forty-five years ago, I lived in Lakewood, Ohio (suburb of Cleveland). I used to go to U-Pick farms for my produce for canning and freezing. The best and easiest picking one had used the black growers cloths for everything, beans, corn, squashes, etc. I was amazed, no weeds and perfect produce. I remember wondering then, why aren't more doing it this way??
@@dianalesueur2297 $=8
We used it for first time this year and mounded our rows.
After decades of struggling with weeds, we downsized our garden, year after year. Literally from a 3/4 acre size down to a 10x4 size.
Last year we discovered your channel and learned about using fabric. We saw the potential and dove in. We planted a 12x100 garden. We spent so little time weeding and the garden was so beautiful, that this year we've doubled that plot!
THIS IS A GAME CHANGER! TRY IT!
I suppose the investment is costly but it's worth it, oui?
Certainly seems so when the fabric lasts many seasons.
@@small-timegarden it really has been for us. 2nd season and the fabric has held up very nicely, despite the fact that we didn't get it up last fall as planned. We did take it up this spring and tilled it before laying it down.
I bought one roll and as I am using it in very specific areas I have yet to use the whole roll and it cost more than your cheap stuff but its useable for years!!
same! I downsized to a 10x20 but this year I went to a 50x60! fingers crossed, but so far so good!
This is my first year using the ground cover. I’m in my 70’s and can’t weed much anymore because of arthritis in my hands and back. I’m so happy to be able to have a garden again. Thank you and God Bless!
We love our ground cover here in the south. Yes we get fire ants but it's still worth it. We have learned in the south that the more neutral our soil is the less weeds we have to contend with. We just water on top of the fabric and it goes right through it. No problems watering. The cleanup in the garden is a piece of cake. Just use a leaf blower and blow it off. Rows stay nice and clean.
How do you combat the fire ants? Some got around one of my pepper plants and tried to kill it!
@@laurasnowden1759 There's no real sure fire way. We use DE mixed in the ants but it's a short term solution.
I'll try the DE. Thanks!
I live in North Alabama and started using the weed fabric last year. I had a couple if fire ant beds but most were at the edge of the fabric. What is DE? I do believe the benefits outweigh the weeds. I love gardening but I work full time so I do not have the time nor the energy to hoe and pull weeds before and after work.
I broke down and used Amdro for my fire ants - no more fire ants! I only put a tablespoon of the granules on the hill and in a few days they are all gone. Otherwise nothing got rid of mine and I respond very badly to them so I HAD to get something.
Hello from Trinidad and Tobago. With respect to the holes being made and the common denominator method, you can make as much of the holes in woven plastic as you'd like, and cover the ones you're not using , place something flat on them as if to 'plug' the unused holes. Uncover them whenever you change your crop.
Excellent idea.
I made a few mistakes the first time I used my fabric... and I did cover those extra holes
IT WORKS!!🙌🏼💞
Brilliant. Yes.
I’m using the weed fabric. I can’t tell you how it’s changed my whole gardening experience. I burn the hole, amend each hole, plant and wala! Done. I spread straw throughout the garden to hold in the moisture. It’s weed free and I’m enjoying gardening with so little work. Thanks for sharing your methods of gardening, I enjoy what your teaching us. Keep doing what your doing, I learn more than you can imagine.
Hello from Australia 🇦🇺
Good morning from Maine! Have a great day!
Thank You Y'All are great Teachers very helpful God Bless.
Everything looks great!!! I'm for sure gonna use some of your techniques. Hope you all have a fantastic weekend 😀
I am using this ground cover this year and I am loving it!
You both explain garden tips very well. Greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Mid missouri here and the ground cover is a game changer. Thanks so much
I'm loving my woven weed fabric. Got it cause of you guys. Thank you! ❤
Thanks for sharing with us Kevin and Sarah, really looking forward to seeing you start harvesting this year. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
Thank you for clearing many of my questions..you are awesome.
This tutorial never gets old. I still watch it with awe. 💜
I cant express my gratitude for you guys.....I learn so much from you ..Bless you two for sharing your journey, good or bad with us
Been using this since you guys showed me for 3 years now. It’s amazing.
Thank you for sharing!! I love listening to the turkeys gobble in the background!!!
We're using the ground fabric this year and really like it so far. Thanks for the inspiration!
Cool giving Danny and Wanda shout out. Thanks for the encouraging and informative content. GOD BLESS!
You have inspired me to try gardening again and have helped me so much! I ordered the woven weed fabric this year and though I only am starting with about 25 tomato plants, I am so excited to see how it will turn out. So far, no weeds or issues!
Very nicely explained the benefits of wooven weed fabric.
Such a wonderful couple. Thank you guys for sharing these details.
You're a most welcome respite from the city environment. And such a fantastic resource for people now living on the land and looking for helpful guidance! Wonderful to watch - great that you both are so busy and teaching as you work! Enjoy!
You two make me happy. Keep up the hard work.
So excited for you both! Bet it was a seemingly long wait to begin planting out! I felt the same and I was able to begin planting out about two months ago (I’m in Paphos Cyprus, so no risk of frost, but I had been waiting for construction on my garden beds to be completed.) I was absolutely beside myself with excitement and could not sleep the night before! Was outdoors with the Sunrise and bleary eyes, that morning!
YES! 🤣 I am So thankful I'm not the only one that the weeds grew through the layers and layers! This is my first year using the weed fabric, and what a JOY it is to go out in the garden again.
Can always count on good information when I watch your channel. Thank you!
Very informative it is a joy to watch you’ll have a blessed weekend 🙏🏻☺️
I started using it in my garden this year and it’s awesome!!! Thanks for the recommendation! It has made it much easier for me to keep the weeds down.
I started using this last year after watching your videos it has been a game changer with my schedule. Thank you guy's for the amazing videos
Thank you both for always having great info on your videos.
I have been using the weed fabric for the past two years! I tried it from your recommendations and love it. Thank you for all the ideas
I've been watching you guys for at LEAST 4 years and love your channel!!!!!
Good morning from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
We started using this last year bc of y’all! Loving it! Couple things that I struggle with is rotation of crops, tilling preseason, and sidedress fertilizing.
Thanks to you guys my gardening is enjoyable again as I'm on my 3rd year using the woven ground cover.
Thank you for this video! It answered so many of the questions in my brain about how I was going to manage my garden when I move to an area with soil very similar to yours! You all are so good about sharing what works and what doesn't and I so appreciate that.
Greetings from Boonville, at the Northern foothills of the Ozarks. Originally from Texas. Boy it's a different ballgame here. Plenty of rain and the weeds love it, lol. You folks have some great ideas i am gradually implementing into my system. Love the channel
Different climates require different approaches to gardening and different obstacles to overcome. Thanks for sharing your experiences with the woven fabric.
We bought the weed cloth this year. It's amazing! It is so worth it!
Thank you for sharing such great information. This really helps us amateur gardeners and shortens the learning curve so we encounter less hurdles. Enjoy your garden and again Thank you! :)
We are switching from raised beds to in ground next year. This video was so very helpful. Thank you for always teaching people. We have learned so much from you both. We appreciated you
Because of you two, my life got much easier during the growing season!
Hi from Cumberland MD. Luv ur videos, very informative 👌. Thank u.
I got the woven weed cover to set my grow bags on and it’s working great!
been with you for last 3-4 year's..STILL LOVING ALL YOU DO.. BLESSINGS 💖
I started doing this last year because of your videos. It is a game changer...so much easier.
Thanks to your postings this is our first year of being weed free. Big box store covering did not do the job but your supplier is now mine. Our garden looks fantastic. Thank you!!!!!
Ordered the fabric for the second season based on your recommendation. Purchased from the same place your get yours. Saves so much time and energy.
We have greatly benefited from your videos on groundcover and very much appreciate your sharing. We did not feel like we could take care of a garden and all the work it involves without it. Not only have we learned about ground cover and where to purchase it but we have learned about other tools that make having a garden possible. Thank you for all your hard work and willingness to share tips and information. Great teachers 👏 👍
We don't grow as much as you guys do but will be buying that woven fabric next year. Thanks for all your great videos and the way you present them and yourselves. May God continue to bless all of your great family.
First year with the woven weave fabric. Things are going nice,y so far! I had watched you with it the last two years and learned! Your videos are so informative and organized. Your my favourite channel. Love you guys! ❤️
Hello from Travis County, Texas!
We're getting lots of late rain this year. 3 days rain, 1 day cloud, 1 day sun, repeat! •sigh•
Sarah, would love to see you freeze dry a favorite (chicken?) casserole + that boullion!!!
_Love the channel!_
I have been with you guys since the beginning of your channel!! Love seeing how you grow, learn, and educate. It's contagious!!! 🥰
Hello from Upstate NY!! I love your channel and get GIDDY when you post a new video! I put the woven weed fabric in my raised bed garden this year! LOVE IT!!
I bought the weed fabric for in my cattle panel hoop house this year. Love it! Now I am putting it down as a border around my garden to keep the lawn from growing into my garden, too. Also from upstate NY!
After years of gardening experience, I made the leap to woven fabric this year. I even added drip irrigation for the first time. You are absolutely right. It is a game changer. You put a little work up front and then enjoy your garden essentially weed free after that. One issue I am facing is a reduced germination rate (about 60%) on direct seed crops - beans, cucumbers and sunflowers specifically. Kevin had a suggestion a week or so ago to use garden staples near seed areas to hold the fabric closer to the ground in those odd areas. I'm trying that today on areas I re-seed. Thank for the great content. Even us old folks learn some tricks from you.
I found that germination rate was lower as well and it seemed like there were areas that the cover was way higher than the soil. I ended up putting some rocks in those areas. I have reseeded several rows that are now successfully coming up.
I don't use fabric, but I've had low germination too, in all the different seeds I've planted.🤔
We are using the weed cover for the first time this year. So far it seems to be awesome. We have had a few blades of grass come up but that has been it so far. We live in northern Illinois so our weeds are pretty much like yours. But someone once told me that a weed is just a plant you don't want in that spot. Thanks for all of the info that you share. It really is inspiring!
Just a suggestion, when you pull the fabric each year, plant a winter cover crop - annual rye, various legumes, clover, etc., that will amend your soil and add organic content when you cover it again in the spring.
This will make gardening SO much easier..ty!
One of the reasons why I subscribed to your channel was seeing how neat it was because of the weed fabric. I'd never seen that in any garden before yours and now every homesteader I follow is using it. Once I get my land I will be using it too. That fabric sure is a game changer in the garden.
I love the sound of the Turkeys in the background. A real farm and a real farm family.
Thanks for the videos.
Thanks guys .... I love the way you r growing everything...
Twenty ticks???? Yikes, I would have given up. So glad you found a method that works!
You give out so much useful information love it!
Found your channel a while back. Saw the ground cover you use and ordered some. Love it. It has helped so much.
Thank you so much for sharing. We are using the ground fabric this year and I’m already seeing relief from weeds. We’ve made a few mistakes, but we’re so encouraged. I look forward to all your videos. We were thinking to leave it down, because it’s definitely a lot of effort getting the fabrics and fencing up, but will see how the soil does, we may end up pulling it up and amending the soil.
Great video. I have been using that stuff for 4 years now. I tell everyone I can to watch your videos and have shared the link to this video on many gardening site . Love you guys. Keep up the great work. You are great educators.
I started last year with the ground cover and it works. Thank you for this tip. Wish would of done it years ago when I was younger. God Bless you two.
Thank you Kevin & Sarah. Top video. Shared to F/b. God Bless you all in Love.
I live in Ontario, Canada & had weed fabric installed in two of my large flower gardens, & mulch on top. I go out every day & check for weeds & I only get very tiny little sprouts that come up here & there that are easy to pull. SO much easier than before. I’m very happy!
A big thank you from South Australia. I've been following you for a while now and when I saw the weed mat you were using and walking on, I knew it was the answer I was looking for. I have 8 raised beds for my veggies and while I don't have a weed problem in the beds, the paths were a totally different matter. We have now lined all the paths with a woven weed mat and haven't had a problem since. The rain soaks right through, when I make a mess I can sweep it up and I have no weeds to contend with. I toyed with the idea of cementing or tiling the paths but didn't like the idea of the heat that would generate. This has been the perfect solution, and I have since used the mat in other areas too and love it. Thank you for sharing all the great ideas you come up with.
I never heard of gardening with weed fabric like this before I first started watching your channel. This is my first year trying it, loving it already!!!! My garden is on a slight incline so the water doesn't have enough time to soak through before it runs off, but I just ran my drip line underneath. We have SUPER weeds here in Southwest Virginia also, and this fabric has already made such a difference!!! God bless you all, Love your channel!
I took your advice and got some of this fabric for my farmette. Wow. What a difference. Since i go to my farm on the weekends I am not suprised when i get there. I have no weeds. Thank you guys. Bless you guys.
Thank you so much for letting us know about this weed fabric. I watched one of your previous videos a few months ago, and bought some woven weed fabric for our gardens, and it is a GAME CHANGER!!! We have tried the plastic in the past, and it just did not work, but this stuff is awesome! No problems at all!! Very little to no weeding, and that is saying something here in Oklahoma! God bless you both, and thank you again!
This is great news! Thank you!
Hi there, You guys are a couple of Angel gardeners .There is so much great info in regards to planting on/in ground cover . Thank you for making me braver garden person. I am going to buy ground cover next year, for sure.
Hello from Indiana. I love that weed fabric and wow such good tick control. I just love following your life adventures. Thanks so much for sharing you lives.
This is my first year using the woven weed fabric. So far I’m enjoying NO weeds!!!!!! I’m so glad I found your videos. I’ve learned a lot!!
I love the fabric...laid it in my mulched landscape areas and in my raised beds...awesome...
I remember my mom using this stuff in her flower gardens back in the 90's in Australia. An excellent idea in making your vegetable garden low maintenance.
Good morning from Houston Texas
Hello from Bedford Texas, I've beem using the same weed cloth from Grower Sollutions after watching your channel some years ago in my raised beds. It saved me a lot of work on weeding, Texas weeds are something else. I watch Danny and Wanda regularly too and a few others. Thank you for sharing.
fantastic video, i once had a boss that always stated weeds were only flowers growing in the wrong place. Im not so convinced when i have to clear them lol
Great tips and ideas. Thank you so much for sharing.
Very informative video! Thank you and good luck to you!!
Outstanding video folks! I watch you regularly and have following suit with woven weed fabric and drip tape irrigation this year. I often wondered how you dealt with the variety of growing distances for each type of vegetable and this answered my questions perfectly. Thank you for your videos and contributions of knowledge in gardening! Take care and God bless! :)
Always informative, fun and lots of smiles. God bless ❤️❤️
I like how clean it looks, and will start a system like this for next year!
Thank you! We used your weed block this year for our garden in Central Valley, CA. It was fabulous! I can focus on planting and harvesting. This is our third year on our homestead and this is the first year almost totally weed free. So anyone reading this... order this same product from bakers creek! We tried three other products and none of them worked until this one!!
Good morning from SW MO too! We moved here from IA 3 years ago and also did the back to Eden way. Weeds were sparse and easy to pull up there. We did the same thing as you, cardboard and mulch. But weeds became taller than me! This year we have started using the same barrier as you and it is amazing! 3 acres of garden and I am still laying it but so worth it!
I will never go back from using this woven weed fabric! It has made gardening so much more enjoyable!! And....I live in NE North Dakota and we never got a chance to roll it up before the snow came so it was left out there ALL WINTER and it was perfectly fine! So grateful for seeing you guys use it so successfully and giving it a try!
Using it for the first time this year. So far so good, last years we spent most of our time weeding the garden, but this year we have two new grandkids and they are taking a lot of there mommies time and they can’t help as much in the garden right now. So I’m enjoying This so far.
When I make a bigger garden I will have to look into ground cover. Great idea.
Yes, Missouri weeds will try to do you in.
I have a big roll of this-going to spread some of it Sunday to grow watermelons & cantaloupes.
Good luck to you in your endeavors.
My flower bed gets so many seeds. Glad I saw this video before using black plastic in that area. Thank you so much.
This is the second year we are using the weed cover and LOVE it We also do our cabbages with the floating row cover you showed us. Last year was the first year we got beautiful cabbages. Added a few cauliflower this year and we'll see how that goes.
Awesome information as always !!!! full watch !