{"id":20569,"date":"2025-05-26T22:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20569"},"modified":"2025-06-02T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:56:44","slug":"daily_3737_-_geotextile_is_useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/05\/26\/daily_3737_-_geotextile_is_useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3737 – geotextile is useless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I first set up the planters, I lined them with geotextile in an attempt to keep weeds out. “Weeds” in our garden includes not just common couch but also lilacs and cherry trees, both of which spread their roots everywhere.<\/p>\n

I tried a non-woven kind of textile in some boxes and a thicker, woven kind in another. I don’t think they made any difference against the roots whatsoever. All they did was make it harder to pull out the weeds that got through. (Or that elected to grow in the space between the box and the fabric.)<\/p>\n

There were weeds in the boxes that sent their roots out through the fabric which made it harder to get rid of them. There were weeds that came in through the fabric from underneath. And, in a final insult to the fabric, there were weeds that nonchalantly sent their roots in and out and in through the fabric again, totally unbothered by it “blocking” the way.<\/p>\n

Now that I’m trying to remove the fabric, I sometimes have to cut the roots first so that I can even get the fabric away from the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first set up the planters, I lined them with geotextile in an attempt to keep weeds out. “Weeds” in our garden includes not just common couch but also lilacs and cherry trees, both of which spread their roots everywhere. I tried a non-woven kind of textile in some boxes and a thicker, woven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20570,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions\/20570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}