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Landscape fabric (a.k.a., weed barrier) is a textile material used to control weeds by inhibiting their exposure to sunlight. The fabric is normally placed around desirable plants, covering areas where other growth is unwanted. The fabric itself can be made from synthetic or organic materials, sometimes from recycled sources.
In the second year, the plant can grow to as much as 3 m (9.8 ft) tall with a width of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in). The leaves are 10–50 cm (3.9–19.7 in) wide, alternate, spiny, and often covered with white woolly hairs with the lower surface more densely covered than the upper.
Weed control is a type of pest control, which attempts to stop or reduce growth of weeds, especially noxious weeds, with the aim of reducing their competition with desired flora and fauna including domesticated plants and livestock, and in natural settings preventing non native species competing with native species.
For example, in temperate climates, plants such as comfrey (as a weed barrier and dynamic accumulator), lupine (as a nitrogen fixer), and daffodil (as a gopher deterrent) can together form a guild for a fruit tree. As the tree matures, the support plants will likely eventually be shaded out and can be used as compost.
Vegetative barriers are narrower buffer strips of hardy, native, perennial grasses or shrubs planted in parallel rows to crops. [5] They are very effective in reducing wind and water erosion which results in sediment trapping and water infiltration. They function in a similar fashion to a contour buffer strip, just much narrower. [1]
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