Here are five good reasons to never use landscape fabric in your garden. We'll also share better alternatives for suppressing weeds, from cardboard to groundcovers.

Landscaping fabric might be good to snuff out weeds, but they can also cause a lot of environmental problems in your garden.

A gardener installs plugs in a garden bed covered by landscape fabric. - Virrage Images/Shutterstock Landscape fabric is often sold as a permanent solution to your weed problem. Professional ...

Landscape fabric is touted as an easy way to control weeds. This plastic fabric blocks weeds and reduces maintenance, goes the thinking. This may be true in the short term, but landscape fabric has ...

Many homeowners use landscape fabric (also called weed barrier) throughout their landscapes to minimize weeds. Landscape fabric restricts the light required for weed germination (since weeds seeds are ...

There are many different ways to take care of weeds in your yard, but there's one natural and particularly eco-friendly way you can get rid of them.

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

You’ve probably seen those large rolls of black fabric at your local garden center or home improvement store and thought to yourself, what is that stuff? Well, it isn’t a new type of flat paving or a ...

Landscape fabric, while popular, is often unnecessary for home gardens. The three common types of landscape fabric—solid black plastic film, perforated black plastic film, and woven polyethylene ...

Thinking about laying landscape fabric to stop weeds for good? Carol Barany explains why it may do more harm than help — and what to use instead for healthier soil ...

For chemical free weed control and for use under mulch, put away the clear or black plastic and get out the polypropylene landscape cloth instead. Known as landscape fabric or garden cloth, there is ...

Between the planters and the soil bags, plastic is hard to avoid in gardening. In fact, some supplies you may not realize are ...