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Originally Posted by siege2050
Lol Mulch aint cheap here, i got like 200 feet of cloth for 19 dollars, but I do use mulch in the yard, I have to with 105 degree or higher temps in the summer, I even have a compost bin. The plasic I am just laying down on the surface like carpet, just keeps the weeds from poking up but not burying it. All my plants are going to be in pots and containers for the winter, then moved outside in the spring. Without something to hold the weeds down, when you opened the door the greenhouse would explode in a flash of poke weed leaves and purple berries. I think they do still call them hoophouses.
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Okay, I hate mentioning this but old carpet can be used to suppress weeds also; you can find it free by driving around neighborhoods or contacting carpet installers. One man's trash...just a thought...yeah, I"m cheap...I use my funds to buy plants.
I wasn't talking mulch but wood chips. Which are not necessarily free where you live. When I lived in DC, I had all I wanted; it cost to dump them. When I lived in Ohio, tree trimmers sold them to be recycled into that dyed mulch so they were not available. In Jacksonville, where it costs to dump them, it's possible to get them for free but I have yet to figure out how.