9726 Weed suppressing fabric

I only manage out to my place in Italy about every 2 months and the small garden is always very overgrown. Does anyone know where I can get some weed suppressing fabric which I could lay over the whole garden until I'm ready to pave it over? I only go for a few days at a time, so if anybody knows of a chain of garden centres with a branch near Rome or between Rome and Viterbo I would be grateful.
Thanks
Linda

Category
Gardening & Agriculture

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 11:09

any ferramenta has black weed suppressing fabric - buy a roll.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 12:38

There's quite a good range of garden centres along the SE shore of Lago di Bracciano, just N of the town of Bracciano.

You mentioned eventually concreting over the garden, but you should also be able to get plants there which would offer sufficient ground cover to prevent much in the way of weeds.....

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 08:28

Not too sure of spelling, but phonetically "Pachamatura" it's black normally.

We have covered most of our gardens with it and covered that with small volcanic pebbles.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 04:28

"moved to italiauncovered.co.uk"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 17:22

Trouble with weed supp. fabric is that it aways seems to find its way to the surface, partic at the edges and then looks orrible but I do sympathise with your bi-monthly visit problem. Have you tried the composted bark chips mulch method - works quite well for us. If you have a big area there may be a way of buying in bulk...