One thing about living here at The Sticks is that we do not
have a lawn… we have a pasture. A pasture
with some of the toughest, most determined weeds you’ve ever seen. These weeds laugh at even the best weed cloth
I could find at the big box home improvement stores. I would have to rip out the old weed cloth every year or two and replace it. That was getting expensive -- to say nothing of how aggravating it was!
The worst area is the north side of our house. The street side of course. It’s the area where they backfilled from
building the house and the rocks are starting to work their way up thru the
thin overlay of soil.
Mowing in there is downright scary!
A double layer of weed cloth and 6 inches of wood mulch only
slowed those weeds down for a couple months.
But… I think I’ve found my solution from the ReStore!
A few weeks ago there were pallets and pallets of some sort
of rubberized tarp sitting along the building.
I found out it was basically just that…rubber tarp. It’s what they use when roofing flat top
buildings. Those pallets held the edges
that had been cut off. And they were
only $20 a pallet (about 3.5 feet high).
I brought home TWO pallets.
It took two trips to do so; this stuff is majorly heavy. This is what one pallet worth looks is
like. It's about 3 feet high in the middle and stretches about 8 feet out. Both sides are the same, just one
is dark and the other side is light.
It only took one pallet to do this large area plus a 25x6’
area along the sidewalk (pics on that makeover later).
I’m going to have some more gravel hauled in when it gets
cooler. A friend will use his tractor to
move it to the tier and spread it out. I
used the light side up so that there will be less contrast when I get the white
gravel spread on it.
I still have one more tier to do (to the left of this
photo). It’s a narrow wedge shape and
won’t take much at all to do. But I need
to also be ready to trellis that wisteria you can see in the bottom left of the
photo.
A good job for Himself when he gets home!
You know… maybe I should go get another pallet of it…
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