Thank you so much Lynn, one of our goals is to always inspire others, have fun growing!

Hi Frank, thank you so much for the kind words and good luck to you when it comes time to transform your property in Florida! In our raised garden bed area that is graveled, we do have heavy duty landscape fabric (I think it’s DeWitt Weed Barrier 4.1 ounce Woven) underneath, it is very heavy duty and does a great job of preventing weeds from growing up through the fabric itself, however, we do get various weeds that still sprout in the gravel which we have to prune out by hand or with a hoe over time to keep it cleaned up. It is still fairly easy to remove them as they are just rooted in the gravel but it is still something to contend with.

In our new orchard space that we created, we only used landscape fabric along the pathways on the outside and down the middle of the orchard, all the other areas only have burlap for initial weed suppression and erosion control but it will degrade within a year or two so we will still have to contend with weeds there. We also live in a fairly dry environment and see most of our rainfall over a 3-4 month period so weeds aren’t as troublesome through our drier months compared to Ohio or Florida where you get year round rainfall. Hope that helps and reach out if you have any other questions.

Thank you so much Mindy, glad you enjoyed it!

As I mentioned in a previous mail, I am preparing to do something very similar to what you have done, but with only a 1/4 acre lot to work with next to our new house.

After watching your latest video and seeing that you have gravel and woodchip walkways, my question is how are you preventing weed growth in those pathways? It might be easier when I get the area figured out in Florida due to the primarily sandy soil, but in Ohio, where I have spent the last couple of years with a large backyard garden, I have had great difficulty with pathway weeds…even after doubling weed fabric as a base and then adding rubber mulch (like kids playgrounds have), on top for the walkways.

Curious about your solution to not having to spend 1/2 of your time in the garden weeding in the pathways. Help!

Cheers,

Frank