Black landscape fabric to cover grass seed?

Question

Lots of birds and squirrels....can I use landscape fabric to cover grass seed???? I usually use old window screens to cover the seed...works great but ran out of screens...

Answer 1

Hello,
Would only use straw, but really prefer "burlap".
It comes in rolls, is cheap, and will decompose on it"s own if left long enough.
Otherwise, manual re-rollup the burlap, after you notice a quantity of new grass growing through it.

Hope this helps, Have Fun!
Dave

Answer 2

Grass Seed Fabric

Answer 3

Hypericum calcynum also known as Aaron's Beard, is a low growing shrub with a mass of lovely large yellow flowers about August and it will grow in dry shade. It has underground stems, it will begin to spread but not excessively, and it is pretty tough. A natural understory for oak would be holly and this might be kept tightly pruned to thicken it up. There are many attractive varieties of ornamental holly. Variegated ivy too would make a good combination. You've found that wood chip is not ideal and can be messy. If you want to avoid mud after wet, you might instead, peg down some tough horticultural fabric. This is permeable. You could then make holes in the fabric and plant through it. That would help to stabilize the earth and eventually it might become grown over. Before you put down the sheet you will need to make sure the ground is sufficiently prepared for growing in. Adding manure will help to sustain growing plants. Adding mycorrhizal fungi to plant roots would be a good preparation too.

Answer 4

There is a product called Curlex that is made for covering grass seed and it works real good. You can use straw but straw has a lot of weed seed in it. American Excelsior Company® is the inventor of biodegradable erosion control blankets. Developed in the early 60’s. Curlex Excelsior Blankets® are specifically designed to actually promote ideal growing conditions for grass seed, while simultaneously protecting topsoil from wind and water erosion. Curlex Excelsior Blankets® have long passed the test of time. By design, Curlex Blankets® have a built-in swell factor - wet curled excelsior fibers slightly expand in thickness and interlock to form a strong, fiber matrix. This allows the fibers to provide intimate contact with local terrain. Water flow is trained to follow the curled fiber matrix. The roughness of the curled excelsior matrix slows the velocity to a point where gravity takes over, allowing moisture to slowly seep into the topsoil to promote ideal growing conditions.

Answer 5

I would say no. The landscape cloth is supposed to act as a weed barrier and not allow weeds to go through it. Since it's black and tightly woven, your new seeds will not get enough or any light in to allow them to grow.

There are types of shade cloth available in differing shade %'s. But then if you get that, you may as well just get the screens which work well for you anyway.

Good luck.

Answer 6

The grass will grow up through the fabric and be ruined when you remove it OR it will not grow at all. Use straw to cover the seed.