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Denise, do you intend to leave the fabric on permanently? I’d suggest not; the couch grass will be dead in about six months and the manure mulch will provide a gradual feed over many months after that. Good luck with your fruit trees – mine have just gone in last week and it’s satisfying to know that harvests will be in your future 🙂
Alternatively, you could work on a method of feeding compost tea in volumes as a foliar feed through out the year. As the trees are currently small(?), it would not be too difficult to put up a ‘rain maker’pulsating sprinkler and pump the tea. If the fabric is mulched ithe fabric will persist unless cut free.I wouldn’t have put it down, its a technique reserved for ‘supermarket’ landscaping.
I’d agree with above. I used a lot of landscape fabric to try to control weeds in my first year as I didn’t know any alternatives. They fray and i’m finding bits of it every where. If you plan to leave a permanent layer under the woodchip i would suggest cardboard as it will decompose once the weeds are dead. Also i find it better generally as it excludes more light. I did plant squash through fabric which I removed after harvest and that worked well but this year I wont be buying any more
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