Asked on Mar 25, 2014
Food safe landscape fabric for veggie garden
by Joan
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I'm looking for a food safe landscape fabric or other material to keep down weeds in my
organic vegetable garden. Do you know of any product or material I can use?
organic vegetable garden. Do you know of any product or material I can use?
8 answers
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Newspaper!
![Leslie C.]()
Leslie C.
on Mar 25, 2014
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I love Leslie's suggestion.
![Douglas Hunt]()
Douglas Hunt
on Mar 26, 2014
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cardboard
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Renee Hansen
on Mar 26, 2014
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Depending on how big your garden is… My mom used unbleached Muslin by the yard in her narrow garden. She would cut a slice in the fabric where she planted her crops. It was the perfect width, had great drainage and kept the weeds down all season. During the winter months it would rot and she turned it into the soil come spring and started all over.
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Jennifer G
on Mar 26, 2014
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Newspaper!
![Fran Barrett]()
Fran Barrett
on Mar 26, 2014
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Won't news papers have the ink die leaking on to everything?
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RayRay
on Mar 26, 2014
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I was wondering about the ink too.
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Joan
on Mar 26, 2014
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The ink in newspaper ink today is soybean oil, not petroleum as in the past. However, other chemicals are added which make it not completely biodegradable...to what extend I do not know. However, there is probably not much of anything that does not contain some objectionable byproduct. Cardboard is pine trees using corn starch glue. Kraft paper is a good product because it is just pine trees. Cardboard and Kraft paper could prove to be rather acidic however requiring some lime to be added to the soil.
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Jeanette S
on Mar 27, 2014
Leslie C.
on Mar 25, 2014
Douglas Hunt
on Mar 26, 2014
Renee Hansen
on Mar 26, 2014
Jennifer G
on Mar 26, 2014
Fran Barrett
on Mar 26, 2014
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