Quote Originally Posted by Stan Calow View Post
For people recommending not to use weed block fabric, what's the alternative? I agree, dirt gets under the rocks and some weeds penetrate the fabric, but still better than nothing, isn't it?
I've found weed block to be ineffective and it eventually gets exposed and ragged. For me it would be round up in a 2 gallon pump sprayer. I walk the beds once a week or so. A gallon of concentrate lasts me a couple of seasons. I would have zero concern about the round up affecting future plantings including any vegetables that I would eat. The veggies you eat from the store and at a restaurant were grown with similar herbicides. It's not that I think they are harmless. It's that I think the alternative to using herbicides is worse.