Landscaping Question

[Squishman]

I have some edging with white rock over landscaping fabric around parts of the house. I am starting to work on the backyard now for this. There are two sections where I don't want rock about 24" x 55", so I cut white tarp and the plan is/was to put that down with garden staples like you would with the fabric and then not cover those areas with rock. Then it dawned on me... the fabric breathes, the white poly tarp does not. Does anyone know if that's fine? I am wondering if those areas under the sections of tarp would get nasty with mold, etc. after a little while. I'll hold off until I know!

 

[Squishman]

... or would it not matter much or at all since it's not a tremendously large area or areas.

 

[TLS Guy]

I have some edging with white rock over landscaping fabric around parts of the house. I am starting to work on the backyard now for this. There are two sections where I don't want rock about 24" x 55", so I cut white tarp and the plan is/was to put that down with garden staples like you would with the fabric and then not cover those areas with rock. Then it dawned on me... the fabric breathes, the white poly tarp does not. Does anyone know if that's fine? I am wondering if those areas under the sections of tarp would get nasty with mold, etc. after a little while. I'll hold off until I know!

Tarp has a weave, you will find that plant life is craftier than you think, and weeds will grow right through that fabric.

 

[Squishman]

Tarp has a weave, you will find that plant life is craftier than you think, and weeds will grow right through that fabric.

Oh. I just looked at it closer. It is 10 ml poly sheeting, textured to look like tarp material.

 

[Squishman]

Too bad it's not tarp actually. I could've laid down landscaping fabric, then the white tarp over that.

 

[Squishman]

I have to figure out a new plan.... or go with just the fake poly tarp. If I found actual white tarp (over landscaping fabric) and not fake poly tarp, it'd likely look like heck in a short period of time, probably turning very dingy from dirt and weathering in less than a year. The fake poly tarp that I have (and already cut to size) would be easy to clean. Spray biodegradable Simple Green on it and hose it off every so often.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Maybe mulch, tarp, and than rocks? Or just mulch but looks like poop when it ages.

 

[Squishman]

Maybe mulch, tarp, and than rocks? Or just mulch but looks like poop when it ages.

I live in a mobile home and there are two access doors in the skirting where I don't want any rocks, but I want it white so it sort of blends in with the rock to the left and the right. I started to think today that since underneath the entire house, there is heavy duty black poly lining the ground. And that all seems well and good, so I thought I'd go ahead and use my fake white sections of tarp and just place them on the ground and bobs your uncle. I go under there to store crap every so often. It would suck to have rock at those access doors to climb over.
Thanks for the help Dude and TLS Guy!