farmerjohn1324
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I have red mulch beds all around my front yard. I first dug down 3", installed drip irrigation to 40-50 plants using the 1/4" tubing, added a flexible border to keep the mulch from spreading outside the planter areas, then dumped and leveled 50 bags to make it a nice, thick planter area. Now, whenever a holiday pops up, and they sell the mulch for 4-5 bags for $10 at Lowes and Home Depot, I buy 20 extra bags and dump occasionally to give it a refreshed look.
The border I am referring to is the professional landscape flexible border. It is about 6" tall, and once buried about 3" in the ground, it becomes a great mow edge. Weed cloth can be cut and places around existing plants, but if you convert to a drip watering system, you won't have weeds pop up everywhere and you could omit the weed cloth.
What are the basic steps?
I would save the fabric for the rocks. Mulch turns to dirt weed grow removing cloth later is a pain in the --- . Make the mulch deeper for weed control.
What rocks?
Some tell me use fabric, other's say don't. I'm not sure who to listen to.
Fire fuel is kinda frowned on near the house now. We put down gravel of all kinds as well as red lava rock, black lave rock, limestone gravel. Now we are seeing used tires being mulched and painted and used that. But that is back to fuel again although much harder to start a fire.
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