Re: Using old carpet as a weed mat

 

as I can

anybody have

garden?

Tehre are a few problems which may occur.  The carpet may have been
mothproofed - that stuff is long term and could kill good microflora
in your garden.  The carpet may look like it's all wool but often it
has synthetic fibre int eh baking and you have trouble seeing this
wihtout looking very carefully - the old patterned "Axminster" was a
good carpet to use as a weedmat but it's rare these days.

The felt underlay may be a better option but I'd try that out in a
small patch to see how it rots down as it too could ahve synthetics in
it.

 g'day claude,

not suer it is a complete weed mat, we have had nut grass and blady
grass come through it.

also as has been said the backing is likely hession or bagging that
will rot readily, but lots of the piles are synthetic so they will
persist.

the smell can be masked bu mulching heavily over the top of it as
well.


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