Well, I guess we've found the limit of CP's brain trust and it ends just before 'landscape fabric' of all things.
If any one of you does any sort of xeriscaping or maintenance-free bed without first putting down landscape fabric I'll kill you myself. Don't subject the rest of us to your weedy mess.
Holds the rock or mulch in place? As if. It typically makes it slippery if you're on an incline. Things jam into exposed soil much easier, so fabric isn't an advantage from that perspective at all.
And doesn't prevent weeds from coming up? Wtf am I reading? That's exactly what it does. I've done more landscaping than anyone. It literally stops weeds from coming up as its main job and the good stuff does a virtually perfect job of that.
Drainage? Water goes right through. My entire front yard is zeriscaped and on a hill and water doesn't run down the fabric or anything. It goes right through as though it were grass.
Does it break down into microplastics? I don't doubt that part at all, but who fkn cares at this point. There are way bigger problems in the world. It's just not a big deal if some microplastics leach into your micro flower bed. I'll take that and enjoy my beautiful yard over some white trash nasty loser with his waist-high weeds trashing up my neighbourhood because he's scared of some mild toxic waste his backyard. Life's short. Fk microplastics.
Finally, if you guys are getting weeds in your beds even though you're using landscape fabric I guarantee it's because you cheaply/lazily used bark mulch instead of rocks. You wonder why you can take two $15 bags, fit them in the trunk of your Accord and spread them out in five minutes and have a great looking flower bed without any downside? The fkn downside is that mulch starts breaking down 35 seconds after you dumped it in spot and weeds start growing out of it by the end of the season. Then the sun bleaches it and you have a nasty mess of faded organics junking up your yard. Use rocks.
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