You may know Bishop’s Weed, Aegopodium podagraria, a member of the carrot family, as goutweed, ground elder and snow-on-the-mountain. Native to Europe and northern Asia, it was brought to North ...

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Removing weeds from gardens is an endless and laborious task. Instead of pulling out weeds from every corner of their outdoor spaces, gardeners swear by a range of weed barriers that prevent the ...

Will low spreading groundcovers grow through mulch? Last year when I put the groundcovers into the ground, I cut small holes through the weed barrier. This year I found many of them are trying to ...

Q. I would like to know if using landscape fabric would be a good way to keep weeds from growing under my tree? — Jason Hutchins, Des Plaines A. Landscape fabrics reduce the amount of sunlight ...

Don’t you love the idea of weed barrier fabric? The notion of something that easily and permanently reduces the growth of weeds so the gardener or landscape professional doesn’t have to spend so much ...

It’s great that many people are replacing lawns with low-water landscaping. But along with trees not getting adequate water, one concern is the widespread use of weed-barrier cloth, including at the ...

Q: We have removed most of an aggressive groundcover. Will a fabric weed barrier keep it from returning? — C.L., Houston A: Try to remove all of the groundcover roots. A weed barrier should help ...