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What Is Weed Control Fabric and How Does It Work? A Guide to Landscape Geotextiles

What Is Weed Control Fabric and How Does It Work? A Guide to Landscape Geotextiles

Weed control fabric — also called weed barrier fabric, landscape fabric or weed suppression membrane — is one of the most widely used geosynthetic products in domestic and commercial landscaping, horticulture and public realm design. It is a permeable or semi-permeable geotextile sheet placed on the soil surface beneath a mulch layer, decorative aggregate or paving to prevent weed growth while allowing water and air ...

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0 Comment   06.07.2026   | labels: landscaping

Typical roof garden sections

Typical roof garden sections

Below 2 typical roof garden sections. These are only to give an idea. Of course the designs change depending on the needs in the project. The upper with conventional design. For drainage 2 nonwoven geotextile (filter fabric) layer and gravel in between were used on top of the waterproofing layer. (mineral drainage layer) Heavy and cost more to take the gravel to the roof. Bigger ...

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0 Comment   24.03.2010   | labels: design, do it yourself, garden, Geocomposites, Geotextile, landscaping, Roof garden, waterproofing

Roof garden tips

Roof garden tips

Now it is spring and you may want to prepare a green roof. You know roof garden does not mean a garden on the roof only. It may be top of an underground garage or top of a underground structure. An important thing is not to forget the drainage core of the drainage sheets or layers with a nonwoven (may be woven but non woven ...

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0 Comment   12.03.2009   | labels: Drainage, garden, hobby, landscaping, Roof garden

Roof garden system

Roof garden system

In the design of roof gardens designers should choose the design system depending on the local weather and plant conditions. Because the climate and the plants are different in al the world. Especially the drainage layer is important for the plants. Below another roof garden design is shown. On the concrete substrate there is a waterproofing membrane and a root barrier on it. But in ...

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0 Comment   08.08.2007   | labels: Drainage, garden, landscaping, Roof garden, waterproofing

How can we control erosion?

How can we control erosion?

In nature it often takes thousands of years till erosion has stopped and a gradual building up of a natural, vegetal cover has taken place. Mankind can make artificial protection with concrete, stone, wood, etc. or help nature to establish a natural cover. Also it is possible to use prefabricated plastic erosion control products. Three-dimensional erosion control mattings, made of polyamide monofilaments welded together where ...

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0 Comment   21.07.2007   | labels: erosion control, garden, Geosynthetics, landscaping

What is Erosion and why erosion control?

What is Erosion and why erosion control?

What is erosion? Erosion is displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock and other particles) by the agents of ocean currents, wind, water, or ice by downward or down-slope movement in response to gravity or by living organisms (in the case of bioerosion). see http://www.wikipedia.org/ Why erosion control? 2 reasons during the erosion process soil particles are transported, resulting in the gradual deformation and destruction of ...

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0 Comment   03.07.2007   | labels: erosion control, landscaping