I use fabric, but MY weeds grow right thru it. When I pull the weed it
leaves big holes in the fabric. I can't win.
Black plastic just degrades over a 2 year span anyway, IE
just get's brittle and disintegrates, even when covered with wood chip's.
Sorry to say this ,but I use Round Up or Finaly....? Spelling ? To deal with
my weeds.
"AnonnyMoose" wrote in message
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I've just noticed my neighbor laying black plastic on the ground under an
old cherry tree and I was just wondering if this is going to interfere
with
the tree's water uptake. The plastic circles the tree in about a 7 foot
radius, as well as 15 feet out another 2/3 of the way around it, under the
drip zone. It's a lot of black plastic, and now it looks like bark mulch
going on top. Will water get through to the roots? Is she inadvertantly
killing the tree in order to keep weeds out of what appears to be a new
flower bed going in? Will there be masses of slugs reproducing under it?
Yikes!

karen
portland, or