Roof Shingles As Weed Barrier

As the weather gets warmer you may be thinking about new ways to spruce up your garden.

Roof shingles as weed barrier.

This is what will happen with the paper. We also use newspapers cardboard boxes weed control fabric and gravel. Place old asphalt shingles around plants to keep weeds from cropping up. Asphalt shingles are perfect for keeping your drums from sliding while playing.

Make a garden path out of asphalt shingles instead of buying gravel cement stones or bricks. Roof felting meets this requirement. You will put it down and put dirt on it and some plants. This year we had to re roof our house and have used the shingles in the pathways to prevent weeds.

In 6 months you will have weeds growing through it and when you try and pull the weeds out the paper will come up to. You wouldn t want the epa on your case for burying hazardous materials. A lot of the time people have the idea that in order to think green you have to think outside the box. Advantages of weed barriers for your garden video weed proofing a vegetable garden article video transcript.

You can really use anything that will block out light to prevent the weeds from growing. Use weed b gone and a weed barrier before you put any thing down. Although the roof was relatively new installed in 2007 we suspected the asphalt roof shingles were the source of the lead. Spring is just around the corner.

Some of that leftover roofing can be used in the garden to prevent. Well today i thought i d show you a way to think green with the box by making a simple weed barrier. You might love the idea of planting flowers but dread hurting your back and knees as you pull weeds every weekend. Basically we use what we have on hand.

When we have old carpet we use that. Asphalt roof shingles 1. Roof shingles are made with tar which is a petroleum product which is considered a hazardous substance. We brought samples to our friends at the ecology center in ann arbor mi for testing.