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Silage Tarp
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Are weeds outnumbering the vegetable plants in your garden? Are you spending more time cultivating than harvesting?
Enter Silage Tarps. Made popular by Jean-Martin Fortier in his book The Market Gardener, Silage Tarps are a simple, cost-effective, game-changing weed management solution to preemptively eliminate weed pressure in your growing space.
Shipping restrictions apply. Ships to USA only.
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Weed suppression made simple.
Nip weeds in the bud. Literally.
Our 5‑mil, UV-treated polyethylene tarps create a stale seedbed in as little as 3 weeks!
Here’s how it works:
- The black tarp creates a warm, moist environment which quickly kills established weeds and encourages rapid weed seed germination.
- The newly emerged weeds then face a dark, suffocating environment in which they quickly die.
- Worms and other beneficial organisms soon appear to decompose any organic matter and loosen the soil.
- In three to four weeks (up to six weeks in winter) you will have an almost completely composted and beautiful stale seedbed!
It’s the closest thing yet to “easy gardening”!
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Cutting the silage tarp will not fray the edges or compromise the integrity. Learn more.
24' × 105'
Width: 9 inches
Height: 9 inches
Length: 46 inches
Weight: 61 lbs
32' × 105'
Width: 9 inches
Height: 9 inches
Length: 60 inches
Weight: 83 lbs
40' × 105'
Width: 9 inches
Height: 9 inches
Length: 70 inches
Weight: 99 lbs
50' × 105'
Width: 9 inches
Height: 9 inches
Length: 86 inches
Weight: 124 lbs
100% Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). It does not contain Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC).
365 sunny days on both sides. Learn more.
Both sides. Learn more.
5 mil
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Silage tarp
5 out of 5 stars
Seems to be working. Been about 3 weeks since placing, I've noticed weed seed germination, now let's make the heat from the sun finish the job.
Holding up really well in the ...
5 out of 5 stars
Holding up really well in the weather both cold and hot. Just went through a wind storm and it held in like a champ!
Silage tarp
5 out of 5 stars
Great, thick material! Will work great.
Silage Tarp
5 out of 5 stars
The silage tarp works really well to kill any top of soil weeds as well as weed seeds below the soil. I rolled it out and over my beds with some extra over the sides to kill off any grass that was growing along the sides. After a few weeks, I pulled the tarp off and found amazing rich soil with no weeds at all and the grass that was growing around the sides was dead and a breeze to rake up. I will be using the tarps again to keep my beds covered in the off season.
Great product! Kills weeds like a champ!
5 out of 5 stars
Laid this out with a middle school kiddo, in about an hour it was secured and in 2 weeks the weeds were cooked and brown.
Silage tarps
5 out of 5 stars
We ordered eight silage tarps 50 x 105’ long. When I checked out on the website it charged me $365 for Expedited shipping. I got a call the following Monday telling me the website had made a big error and the shipping should’ve been approximately $1300. The sales rep told me that they were going to waive the shipping fee refund me the $365 I had paid and have my order expedited anyways. I was quite pleased with her customer care and the way they handled the situation. I’ll definitely be buying products from them again!
great tool for deep south
5 out of 5 stars
silage tarps help prep vegetable garden plots. Once our spring/summer crops are done, we pull tarp over plot to either keep beds clean or terminate cover crop. a market garden must have, just like cool bot system and landscape fabric
Thank you! Some feedback about the plastic
4 out of 5 stars
Hi, I love the tarps I bought, and you all are so friendly.
A little feedback. The tarps were attached to their bags in a way that made it impossible to unroll them without tearing part of the tarp toward one end. On one tarp I bought, the damage was minimal. On the other, it left significant holes along about twenty-five feet of the tarp. It’s not the end of the world but it’s disappointing for a new, high-quality tarp I just paid good money for. Seems like it might be related to a machine that bags the tarps and/or how that machine is operated. Figured I’d let you know in case you can improve it.
That said, I’m very happy with these tarps, and grateful to Farmers Friend for making them available. Thank you!
5 stars
5 out of 5 stars
Service is great and very please with my order.
Heavy, that’s right
5 out of 5 stars
Heavy duty tarp IS heavy! I ordered the big one and it took two men to carry it to the garden and unroll it because it’s so heavy duty! I believe that we will be using it for years!