Permatex / Mypex Weed Control Packs

Weed Suppression Kits: Mypex Fabric & Ground Pegs

The two biggest threats to your new row of hedging or trees are dryness and competition from grass & weeds! 

When your plants are establishing in their first Summer especially, they need consistently moist soil to quickly establish new roots, with no other plants' roots in their way. 

Each Weed Suppression Pack contains 1 metre wide fabric, with 2 plastic pegs per metre ordered.
Buy mulch fabric separately, without pegs, or buy plastic ground pegs separately.

Do I Need Mulch Fabric?

Weed control fabric is strongly recommended for use with hedging or rows of trees, in places where weeding and watering will be less regular.

Farmers planting country hedges with a lot of weed pressure swear by Mypex, and orchards with rows of precious fruit trees and fruit bushes.

Mulch fabric is not a replacement for watering plants in dry weather, but it gives you more time between each watering.

For most garden hedges where watering and weeding is convenient, and organic mulch is practical to apply, weed control fabric is neither necessary nor aesthetically pleasing. 

Do I Need Ground Pegs?

• Ground pegs are good on all heavy topsoils: the more clay, the better. 
• Ground pegs are not useful on sandy, loose and rich in organic matter, or very rocky soils.
• Burying the edges of your mulch fabric is still recommended anywhere that wind is a concern!

Features:

• Woven Polypropylene fabric
• 1m wide rolls
• Comes with correct number of reusable ground pegs
• Preserve soil moisture
• Keep the weeds down
• Designed for rugged agricultural use
• Last for many years, decades in the shade
• Not necessary to use weedkiller before planting
• Essential for hedges where watering in Year 1 will be infrequent

Using the fabric:

Cut down the weeds where you intend to plant; in lawns, lay the fabric over the grass along the line you intend to plant. 
No spraying, no lifting of turf is essential, but if you do scalp off the plants and grass, so much the better. Leave them under the mulch fabric.

Top tip: Applying the plastic mulch months in advance of planting day will clear the soil of more tough weeds & grass for you with less effort.

Stand on the Mypex to hold it, and tuck the Mypex edges into the soil with a sharp, straight up, straight down motion, like in our country hedge planting video, or use plastic pegs. 

On planting day, cut horizontal slits along the centre line of the mulch fabric, slightly wider than your planting spade, at the spacing you intend to plant your hedging, usually every 33cm. 

Once the hedge has established it will cast enough shade to suppress weeds, and its roots will be deep enough to find moisture in a dry summer.