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I guess from a marketing perspective you may have a point. A year or two of reduced maintenance will no doubt leave a client feeling like you did something magical to thier yard. One could also make the argument that it will leave that client with an unrealistic expectation of what maintenance is really necessary for thier yard and that they will be in for a nasty surprise when they or thier maintenance contractor starts spending extra hours each week on a trimmer or slinging a sprayer of round-up. It has obviously worked well for you John but for me that year or two of reduced maintenance and whatever marketing value that has are far outweighed by the long term liability of placing a layer of non-biodegradable stuff that will be in the landscape forever (or until someone performs the huge PITA job of removing it) that will only be effective for a few years. And I have to admit that irrespective of how effective it is it just kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth to install something so permanant and unnatural when I am trying to create a little piece of nature in an otherwise manufactured environment.
Now if someone made an effective weed barrier that broke down after 3 or 4 years...I'd be all over that.
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