Hi Mike -- sorry to say this, but I totally agree with Seedfork about the landscape fabric! Every time I've tried to use it all I ended up with was a mess, with weeds on top of the weed block. The water should go through the stuff... but it apparently isn't going through very quickly for you. Since you already have it down, for watering and fertilizing you might want to try some of the things that screw onto a big soda bottle and can be poked down into the ground to get water near the roots of a plant. That way you'd only need to make a relatively small hole to push it through to the dirt. (I'll go look for a link to what I'm talking about, since my description probably is about as clear as mud if you don't already know what they are)
At any rate, hope the weed block works better for you than the experience Seedfork and I have had -- I know landscapers use it all the time, and it certainly SEEMS like a good idea...
Here's the link --
http://www.gardeners.com/on/de...
