Pros & Cons of Using Black Plastic in Your Garden & Why We Are Using It 

After spending some time on your channel I thought I utilized my time in the correct way by seeing the correct video about Pros & Cons of Black Plastic Mulch. I appreciate your work. It was really a nice channel and I was really impressed by seeing this video.

Oh the weeds 😂🤦‍♀️😂🤦‍♀️😂. I have battled them for 12 years and Bermuda is the worst. Why why why did our parents and grandparents think this was the grass to plant. Love the drone shot. Looks amazing!

Funny about you mentioning Bermuda as a weed. Our homebuilders in TX use it as grass!

I love using wet newspaper + cardboard in my garden, but I garden on such a small scale 😅 plastic- especially if you can reuse it- just makes a lot of sense for larger scale farming.

This video is very helpful. Thank you! So it looks like you place the edges of the plastic under dirt to keep it in place. Do you have trouble keeping weeds from growing between the rows of plastic? If so, do you just let the weeds grow there or do you do something to try to eliminate them?

Any concern for the black plastic becoming hot enough to burn plants that contact it? What if you were in TX?

Yes do what you got to do to 🥰there pro and cons I put card board and much I’m 80 can’t do what I could before

Oh my God I'm battling some of those same weeds and I swear that Bermuda grass is Straight From Hell

First-time plastic user and new homesteader here. Thanks for the tips! Hoping this solves my creeping thistle and white clover plague problem up here in BC!

How do you pull the plastic without using a tractor mounted lifter?

Thank you for sharing. I should use more cardboard to help in the garden, I spend alot of time weeding.

Check out the biodegradable “plastic” mulch. It keeps down weeds for most of the season and turns into compost at the end ❤

I just pulled a row of plastic, cut Xs, and planted beets. Will they come through fine or will it be too hot? I've never sowed seeds with the tarp in place.

I have a small garden and not sure what kind of grass it is i have but it's the most stubborn thing i've ever seen. i've seen it push through a mulch of shredded cardboard. can't try wood chips due to price and lack a supply where i live but i'm sure they would get through even that. Hell i've seen 2 manage to grow right through even the weed barrier but it was just two so i could live with it. People can cry all they want about plastic but it can make or break ones drive to garden. It's crazy to weed out a bed and come back the very next day to see new weeds poping up where you just weeded.

Purslane is actually edible. I do leave some in my garden I threw it in my salads and soups.

Plastic Comes from the Environment. It's called Petro Chemicals. Woody Guthrie warned about it's emergence in the early 1900's in a song titled "Talking Columbia" in which he states.. "And atomic bedrooms and plastic -- Everything's gonna be plastic". I use weed barrier here in Wyoming with Drip Irrigation. Fantastic Stuff! Helps with Evaporation and Weed Control. Maintaining a Garden the size of a Football Field with a low yield well by yourself? Not easy even with good weather. Remember, there are about 15 calories of HydroCarbon in every Calorie of Food you Consume. Wake up America! Finished diggin my spuds yesterday with my two dogs.... ~ 700 #'s ~ Plenty of Vodka this winter! I don't know how I'm gonna drink it all? Thanks for the info!

I have the same terrible weeds here in upstate NY.

I didn’t understand what is the name of the fourth weed?

Thank you so much

i wonder if you have experimented with bio360 or other bioplastic agricultural products?

I am surprised you do not use the decomposing plastic made from cornstarch. Farmers are using

*How do you get rid of nutsedge?* I put in 18" raised beds over lawn and used A LOT of cardboard in the bottom thinking there was no way the nutsedge would find a way through... Now it's borrowing up through my barriers and infiltrating and spreading through my garden beds. I started pulling it out by hand. I was thinking I could "wear it out," that is, cause it to use up all it's energy in it's nut and eventually die back.... I saw an article that said pulling nutsedge is a big mistake because it actually triggers a hormone that causes the sedge to proliferate with vigor. It may be true because I am seeing it come up in clusters and where I've dug down deep to root it out I am finding that it is branching underground and sending up multiple shoots. I saw another article that said molasses was the only effective organic way to eliminate nutsedge. It feeds microscopic life in the soil that will eat the nuts and roots of the sedge and works in about three applications. Have you tried this? What affect might it have on my desirable garden plants - especially root crops? And advice would be GREATLY APPRECIATED 👍🥵

Have you tried solarization at all? Obviously on non-planted areas.

Where did you get that hat? I want it

Plastic... I use plastic and it works. Everyone saying we need to reduce plastic needs to invest in research to find an alternative. You drive a car that is mostly plastic, shop in a grocery store where everything is packaged in plastic. I like plastic.

Purslane is very nutritious.

If you are in organic gardener cardboard should not be used as it has forever chemicals in it that break down into the soil.

I use black plastic to get new plants, fertilizers, and soil for my garden!

If anyone wants to bully you over using a roll of plastic, please remember there is a maintenance worker at a plastic manufacturing plant who is thankful for you!

Purslane is good to eat