Need help! Neighbors raspberry plants growing into my patch
Our
neighbor's raspberry patch at the side of their house is growing into
our patch at the side of our house. The roots are running from his
side underneath the shared walkway patio stone and shooting up into
ours. As we do not have more than 2 hours of sunlight at the side of the house, we
do not want to have any plant growth there. Last year, we bought landscape fabric, gravel and riverbed
rocks. We've removed all the plants and weeds, laid the fabric and then
covered with rocks.
Wish we had done a bit more research on the fabric weed barrier before
doing all the work as the raspberries and weeds are still growing. The raspberry plants poked
through the fabric weed barrier. :\ The barrier was rated for 25 years and it hasn't even been 2 years yet!!
I'd like to purchase the black plastic mulch sheet (picture below) but was wondering if their raspberry plants will again shoot through the plastic mulch?
and any posts or google search related to the black plastic mulch is for gardening and/or
vegetable growth where they cut holes for the plants.
Has anyone tried or used this plastic sheet strictly to prevent growth and act as a barrier. Will i need to still make small holes so that water can drain?
I was thinking of removing all the rocks including the existing fabric
cloth that does nothing and
put in a fresh layer of the black plastic mulch sheet. Thus far the
search on how to block raspberry from spreading is to insert a
vertical root barrier that is a minimum of 18 inches! YIKES! :\ The
side of the house is rather long.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
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ianna
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6 years ago@Ianna - Yes, I hear you on the hard work! Good exercise for may be a few hours and then your back will start telling you to stop!! :\
@GroundskeeperSmalley, thank you for your input. I've actually placed a call to the nursery that I was going to buy the plastic from and they do not think it will be helpful at all. They also think the solution is the barrier with the possibility of some escaping.
I was still thinking of may be putting on half of a better weed barrier that I found on some other forums. I was thinking of doing half of the side patch only because removing gravel will be a big pain...
It's a woven type weed barrier and may be it will be better than the regular fabric cloth that we have down right now which is very thin now that I'm thinking about it. Has anyone seen or used this before? The side that is fuzzy faces the soil.
http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/product/weed-barrier-20-year/ground-cover-fabric#description
4.1 oz. woven, needle punched,
polypropylene fabric designed for professional and commercial use.
Features 20 year warranty and colored lines located 12" apart for easy
plant alignment.
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6 years agotest dig has started since earlier... turns out the difficult part is lifting the stones... it's very heavy !!! digging 9 inches is doable. seriously I think 18 is a bit too ambitious for me with hand tools. I've dug down The first test and so far all the roots have been shallow as per any google search. my barrier might have to be of a C shape where in case the roots do hit the barrier and go up or down it'll at least have a guide for it to turn around and back into my neighbors patch lol.
serious I hope to finish today ... ;/
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6 years agoHello. I'm up to finishing my last 10 feet. although it started quite well as the digging was only 2 hours. the backfill is the backbreaking part as moving the slabs back in place is not easy !!!
I really think I've made the mistake in starting this project. it's seriously a bad idea and a lot of work....
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