Landscape fabric does not allow water through
yam2006
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Comments (5)Is there anything I can add on top of the fabric that will lower the soil pH?...See MoreDoes anyone like landscape fabric?
Comments (11)gregnga -- As I understand it, the exact same way you'd use the fabric. For the kraft paper, I plan to roll it out (and I will probably use esh's suggestion and do at least 2 layers), and secure it with spikes similar to what I used on the landscape fabric. (Obviously, being as careful as possible not to rip the paper, when I do it.) And, then cover with mulch and water it down well. Now, I will probably clear the bed of weeds first. I have used the "smothering" technique before, with regular landscape fabric; but it seems to have different levels of success, depending on what kind of plants you are "smothering." (Hence, perhaps the Mondo grass issue. That stuff is pretty tough.) One of my friends uses newspaper and she just collects it all season and then uses a nice, thick layer in her beds, with mulch on top....See More$15,000 landscape allowance
Comments (19)Looking at the amount of landscape material you have here, I think 28K is very fair. Like others have mentioned, there seems to be some fairly mature specimens planned which presents the home as "finished." Many times I have seen a new house completed where the homeowners are going to do the landscaping. They plant knee-high evergreens, 2 gallon foundation shrubs and twigs for trees. It looks ridiculous and will take 10 yrs. for them to get to the size they should have been when they were planted. As someone who has spent plenty on landscaping and is also a master gardener who spends much of her spare time at nurseries, I can assure you that based on what I see on your blueprints, the cost is reasonable. However, it's only reasonable if you can afford it. If you spent 800K on your home, I imagine it's fairly large. Without the proper size of landscaping your house will dwarf anything you plant beside it and look silly. You also need your beds to extend a fair amount away from the home and bed preparation is expensive. Don't skimp on the landscaping and have the planner remove some foundation plants because it is a vital transition from ground level to plant level to home level. In actuality, landscaping appeal is as important an exterior feature as what windows, siding and roof you choose. It completes the 'wow' factor. If you want some expert opinions, try over at the Garden Forums under Landscape Design. Be prepared, most of the folks on this topic are hardcore landscape architects and designers and can accordingly be a bit opinionated and condescending, but you will have no trouble getting your question answered as well as opinions on what your designer has planned....See MoreHelp thinking through roof runoff landscaping
Comments (8)My camera was acting up so I didn't take a lot of photos, but really IMHO this is a true landscaping issue because it involves the whole landscape. My house and my neighbors house were built very close together, with not very good restrictions or planning for runoff all around the house. I'm lucky, but it is no wonder that my neighbors have issues with water in their crawlspace. The swale that is supposed to carry the runoff is on the property line and the fence is kinda in the middle of it. It basically runs along their fence line. Then there was an irrigation line laid there, with "backsplash" from the spray heads hitting the fence. We closed off most of those, since they were part of the moisture along the fenceline problem. The fence gets every imaginable bit of debris piled up against it, carried by gravity and water since it is the low spot. BUT, the back side of my house is also often a mud pit due to all the water draining off the roof there. You can see from the many pictures, that the THREE major drains/downspouts coming off the house are landscape challenges. The first one emptied into a drain carrying the water under the walkway, and it had totally clogged, in fact the drainpipe was 2/3 packed with silt. Water was running down the side of the garage wall. We unglogged and re-installed the drain, but I can't help but imagine it will clog again eventually, since it basically runs into the swale underground. There's no where for the large amount of water to spread out at the end. But we'll see. We installed a rain barrel but don't have the money to invest in a large storage tank system and still no way we could capture it all. We are OK just managing the muddy weedy swale between our homes for now. Eventually we want to remove the ugly plastic shed and dying spruce and plant a small fenced vegetable garden there, as it would be the only sunny spot on our lot, the south facing front is devoted to the septic mound. So that takes the landscape along the garage, an important walkway for us carrying tools, etc. to the back yard, to the back of the house where the real landscaping work begins. If we re-route the one roof downspout to that area, it joins another downspout to create the nasty little area in front of our porch. We want that area open so we can view the forested backyard and riverbank. Not sure what to do there after the pear is gone. We use that area for our fire pit and long term would like to tear off the hated red deck and put in a long patio. But that might not happen. I am struggling to figure out what to put there that I won't regret long term. One idea would be to reuse the stones we're removing from all the beds, but if we ever want to change anything up, we might regret it. I'd hate to move all those rocks just to move them again. Ultimately we'd like to expand the planted beds in front of the porch and deck to include the fire pit area. But rock mulch and purple plums have to be ripped out then too. I welcome anyone's ideas on the landscaping issues involved. We can only afford to do this one bit at a time. Shot of swale down to the river...See Morewatergal
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