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  • LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org
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    8 days ago

    If you mean agricultural felt, carry on. Other than that, most woven landscape fabrics are plastics and will not only break down and get into the soil but also make removing plants which grow through it harder to manage or remove

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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      7 days ago

      will not only break down and get into the soil but also make removing plants which grow through it harder to manage or remove

      I was just trying to grow chile.

      • LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org
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        7 days ago

        It’s not so much the crop you’re growing, but the weedy species around the growing space which will try to get to that space and will entangle themselves in the plastic interweave. Trying to remove them by pulling will just rip some of the material apart, which means bits of plastic left behind and greater opportunities for even more weeds to make it through.