Three cheers for you, Cass! Longtime gardener and landscape cloth hater in San Diego. I love your letter and effort to get it banned and am strongly considering trying the same thing here.
Same thing for me. Last fall we moved into a new house and when I began to put my plants into the beds, I found a sturdy layer of this landscaping cloth under all the “beauty bark.” It’s everywhere that isn’t a lawn! My pots were from my old garden, waiting to be transplanted to the new. Since moving I’ve had health issues and still haven’t gotten my plants into the soil. What a mess! I’ve never had this problem before. This new yard has a garden for non-gardeners! Easy care, plants that can take being ignored, automatic watering system. It’s not really a garden, it’s just landscaping.
I really relate to the frustration you must have felt! So sorry to hear youre having some health issues that make it difficult to deal with the tarp - it truly is labor intensive to pull it all up. Ugh! I hate it. I'm so sorry you have to deal wtih it.
I used to work on an organic farm in Georgia where landscape fabric was an essential part of blocking out weeds during the growing season & definitely made the work she did there possible. The fabric was re-used (over 10 years at the point I got there), and mostly pulled up after each crop rotation, and put into cover cropping. I definitely see your point, especially for home or ornamental gardens 100%. But I guess in terms of legislation - there are some contexts where the benefits are immense!
Plastic has never been not useful in certain contexts. I’ve also still never felt those benefits were worth the trade offs. We farmed for a long time successfully without it. TBH an organic farm growing food filled with microplastics sees counterintuitive to me!
From one landscape cloth loather to another, I salute you!
Bless you! Hahah
Three cheers for you, Cass! Longtime gardener and landscape cloth hater in San Diego. I love your letter and effort to get it banned and am strongly considering trying the same thing here.
Love this!!!! Let's start a movement hehe
Same thing for me. Last fall we moved into a new house and when I began to put my plants into the beds, I found a sturdy layer of this landscaping cloth under all the “beauty bark.” It’s everywhere that isn’t a lawn! My pots were from my old garden, waiting to be transplanted to the new. Since moving I’ve had health issues and still haven’t gotten my plants into the soil. What a mess! I’ve never had this problem before. This new yard has a garden for non-gardeners! Easy care, plants that can take being ignored, automatic watering system. It’s not really a garden, it’s just landscaping.
I really relate to the frustration you must have felt! So sorry to hear youre having some health issues that make it difficult to deal with the tarp - it truly is labor intensive to pull it all up. Ugh! I hate it. I'm so sorry you have to deal wtih it.
This is the nudge I needed to pull my landscape fabric up which i inherited from the previous tenant. Thank you!
Omg amazing! 🥲🥲🥲💕
I used to work on an organic farm in Georgia where landscape fabric was an essential part of blocking out weeds during the growing season & definitely made the work she did there possible. The fabric was re-used (over 10 years at the point I got there), and mostly pulled up after each crop rotation, and put into cover cropping. I definitely see your point, especially for home or ornamental gardens 100%. But I guess in terms of legislation - there are some contexts where the benefits are immense!
Plastic has never been not useful in certain contexts. I’ve also still never felt those benefits were worth the trade offs. We farmed for a long time successfully without it. TBH an organic farm growing food filled with microplastics sees counterintuitive to me!