Degradable Lawn Seedling Mat for Garden Beds & Rows
Your beds start the season looking planned. This degradable green mat rolls over raked soil and gives seed and seedlings a steady, even surface from day one. Lay one 10 ft roll along a row, pin the edges, and sow straight through it.
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Your beds start the season looking planned. This degradable green mat rolls over raked soil and gives seed and seedlings a steady, even surface from day one. Lay one 10 ft roll along a row, pin the edges, and sow straight through it.
Degradable green seedling mat that lays over beds to support seedling growth in playgrounds, flower beds and greenhouse landscapes
- bare soil and uneven planting rows
- manual weeding and bed preparation
- need for an eco-friendly alternative to synthetic ground covers
Lay the row first, let seedlings rise evenly
Bare soil and crooked planting lines become a neat, green seeding surface you roll out in minutes. Your beds start the season looking planned instead of patched.
A dense surface that holds seed in line
- A surface that holds the seed line
The mat is a dense green non-woven fabric with a soft, fibrous face. Seed sits on top instead of sliding into the gaps, and seedlings push up through the fibre in the rows you set. You get straight lines without measuring each one by hand.
- One roll, whole bed covered
A 10 ft by 0.7 ft roll covers a long row in a single pass. Compared with stringing a line and sowing one row at a time, you lay the whole strip in the time it takes to unroll it, then spend the rest of the morning on the planting.
- Made to break down in the bed
The material is degradable, so it softens and breaks down in the soil over the season instead of staying behind as synthetic cover. Once the bed is planted, there is no sheet to dig out at the end of the year.
Roll it out, pin it, plant through it
- 1Rake the bed smooth
Clear clods and stones so the mat sits flat. Bumps lift the fabric and leave gaps where seed falls unevenly.
- 2Roll the mat out flat
Unroll it along the bed. If the bed is shorter than 10 ft, cut the roll to length with scissors or a utility knife.
- 3Pin the edges and seams
Use landscape pins or heap soil along the edges and any overlaps so wind and watering cannot lift the corners.
- 4Sow or plant through the surface
Put seed or set seedlings straight through the fibre at your planting spacing. The rows already line up with the mat.
Long rows, one roll, less stopping
- 10 ftLength
- 0.7 ftWidth
- Tight rolled cylinderForm
Long enough to run a full bed row in one pass
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Questions and answers
The roll is 0.7 ft wide, which suits single rows, narrow raised beds and strips along a path. For a wider bed, lay a second strip alongside with the edges overlapped and pinned. The roll cuts cleanly with scissors or a utility knife, so trim it to the bed length before you pin it down.
The dense fibre holds its shape through ordinary rain and watering. The edges are the part to watch. Pin them well and they stay put. A heavy storm can still shift an unpinned corner, so check the pins after a big downpour.
The mat is made from a degradable non-woven material, so it breaks down in the bed instead of remaining as a synthetic cover. Speed depends on moisture, soil and climate. Expect it to soften and thin over the season rather than lasting for years.
Yes. Greenhouse seedling rows and the edges of play areas and flower beds are both common uses. On a playground, pin the edges firmly so the mat stays flat underfoot.
String lines drift in the wind and have to be reset every time you sow. The mat gives you a fixed, flat surface, so rows stay where you put them. One roll saves the weekly job of re-marking a bed, which is the real cost of the old method.