A landscape guy in this area says he hates it----if you ever have to tear it up roots grow right through it an it's a tangled mess, you end up pulling weeds, roots soil and all-----double thick cardboard stops weeds and eventually rots down, especially if you cover it with ground wood chips which I haven't done but the boxes are keeping the weeds down by themselves. They are just not decorative . If I weed (which is not often--you can't find my house behind eight foot weeds) I loosen by rocking a spade back and forth then use a long handled cultivator. I also have two benches, one folding that I can either sit on or turn upside down and kneel on and use the legs to stand up. Both were inexpensive, but I have osteo arthritis in every joint from one end to the other especially my back and if I get down on the ground I usually can't get up, and there is no one here to weed except me (and the deer)-------------------------------------Weedy
