I feel so encouraged! I live in North Texas, and I'm originally from Wisconsin, where tilling a few times at the beginning of the year, planting, and mulching on top is enough to battle weeds, with occasional weeding. Tried that here, didn't work at all, the Bermuda grass completely took over the in-ground beds... I bought some of the DeWitt woven plastic landscape fabric and planned to cut the sod out, lay plastic down, put mulch on top; I was really worried about the raised beds being separated from the natural soil with landscape fabric underneath, but I think this is what I will do instead! Fabric in the pathways and cardboard in the beds, thank you so much for showing me that it can actually work! I put a post out on Reddit asking some advice, and I got nothing but discouraging comments about how landscape fabric is such a headache and I should never even think about using it. So thank you!
Now that we are a couple years from when we filmed this video, my advice would be to really make sure your fabric goes past the edges because the Bermuda and climb up too! Crazy grass. And just stay on top of weeding maintenance :)
Very interesting. I love the overhead drone shots near the end of the video showing the garden in various stages over the past few months. Hope you update that time sequence with some winter shots.
thank you! We have lots of in ground rows for our flower farm but I also wanted the raised garden for ease of growing (we have Bermuda grass and clay soil to deal with) and I wanted the look of having a large raised garden in our front yard as a design feature.
@Coram Deo Flower Farm It looks amazing. Im very new at the garden thing, and I noticed a lot of people are doing raised beds and was wondering if it was better to do so. I just found out i have to do raised beds as well because I have limestone bolders under the soil and Bermuda grass as well . Your video was very informational, and thank you for sharing it with people.
Does that landscape fabric allow water to pass through? I wonder if it would be better to put that under the beds, then the cardboard, etc. I know that's not ideal for the best development of the soil & plant roots, but...bermudagrass :/
As you saw in this update, this technique worked really well in controlling the Bermuda grass. Only some break through. The fabric allows water to pass through and I tucked it under most of the beds to help. I would personally not put in in the entire raised bed bc I want the plant roots to be able to go down as deep as they want with no barrier.
I actually loved your process. It was well thought out and you've stayed on top of what little weeds you had. Great Job!
Thank you! We are really pleased with how well it has worked out
I feel so encouraged! I live in North Texas, and I'm originally from Wisconsin, where tilling a few times at the beginning of the year, planting, and mulching on top is enough to battle weeds, with occasional weeding. Tried that here, didn't work at all, the Bermuda grass completely took over the in-ground beds... I bought some of the DeWitt woven plastic landscape fabric and planned to cut the sod out, lay plastic down, put mulch on top; I was really worried about the raised beds being separated from the natural soil with landscape fabric underneath, but I think this is what I will do instead! Fabric in the pathways and cardboard in the beds, thank you so much for showing me that it can actually work! I put a post out on Reddit asking some advice, and I got nothing but discouraging comments about how landscape fabric is such a headache and I should never even think about using it. So thank you!
Now that we are a couple years from when we filmed this video, my advice would be to really make sure your fabric goes past the edges because the Bermuda and climb up too! Crazy grass. And just stay on top of weeding maintenance :)
Very interesting. I love the overhead drone shots near the end of the video showing the garden in various stages over the past few months. Hope you update that time sequence with some winter shots.
I love your layout and your weed control That is great.
Just beautiful! Congratulations!
Thank you!
Is it still holding up two years later?
Your garden is really pretty. I do have A question i want to ask is why you decided doing a raise garden bed then an inground garden bed?
thank you! We have lots of in ground rows for our flower farm but I also wanted the raised garden for ease of growing (we have Bermuda grass and clay soil to deal with) and I wanted the look of having a large raised garden in our front yard as a design feature.
@Coram Deo Flower Farm It looks amazing. Im very new at the garden thing, and I noticed a lot of people are doing raised beds and was wondering if it was better to do so. I just found out i have to do raised beds as well because I have limestone bolders under the soil and Bermuda grass as well . Your video was very informational, and thank you for sharing it with people.
What is the cost of doing this?
Does that landscape fabric allow water to pass through? I wonder if it would be better to put that under the beds, then the cardboard, etc. I know that's not ideal for the best development of the soil & plant roots, but...bermudagrass :/
As you saw in this update, this technique worked really well in controlling the Bermuda grass. Only some break through. The fabric allows water to pass through and I tucked it under most of the beds to help. I would personally not put in in the entire raised bed bc I want the plant roots to be able to go down as deep as they want with no barrier.
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