UPDATE: It has been over a year since we placed this down. Due to COVID we never got around to putting mulch down yet. THIS STUFF IS AMAZING! Our swingset actually got blown apart in a recent windstorm but this still looks like the day we got it. We've even had to lift it to get to some leaking irrigation pipes and we just layed it back down with new landscaping nails with no rips/problems.

We recently leveled out a patch of our yard for a swingset we were putting up for our kids. Being that it was the middle of December, we needed something that was easy to put down and that would hold up to our Great Dane's claws when he gets running full speed until the springtime when we can get some mulch or other substrate to pour over it.

I'm happy to say that it was a breeze to lay out (much easier than laying strips of regular landscaping fabric), and a month later it's hanging in strong, even with kids and dogs running all over it, and my Dane's claws are HUGE. We're talking inch long thick talons. He's torn other tarps to shreds in a day from running over top of them.

Another thing I can comment on is that they are very porous, it's rained several times here in the past few weeks and there is never standing water. Will 100% recommend to anyone wanting to lay an absurd amount of landscaping fabric. The ONLY downfall is that it shreds pretty easily along the edge if you cut it. Not a huge deal as we folded most of ours under.

Had hillside wash away with a recent flood and put this down before installing 35 tons of rip rap along hillside. Used in conjunction with the tacks that have plastic disc rahther than just staples and worked perfectly.

Most people put down gravel and then need to do it again in a few years because it sinks into the dirt. I placed this fabric down before the gravel on my new driveway and the gravel is stable and not sinking...even during the heavy rains.

This material is easy to cut using a sheet metal or utility shears. I used biodegradable fabric staples to hold it down so the there won't be and un natural metals leaching into the garden soil, just steel rusting in peace. I added medium bark chips on top. This should control and weed grow in between the garden boxes. If a plant is needed later, it should be easy to cut an X in the material to expose the ground and pkay.

Armorlay seems to be very tough stuff. They do not list the oz. per sq. yard in their description. I bought a 6' x 300' roll of this material for my garden. Upon inspection I did not think it was very permeable. It is a tight weave. That is why I returned it. Other reviewers also noted that it is not very permeable. Bob Vila's web site recommends Hoople landscape fabric. It is described as very permeable and 5oz per sq yard. Do the math with the Armorlay and at 830.4 oz. per 200 sq yards it comes out to 4.15 oz per sq yard, not quite as heavy as the 5 oz. Hoople. Bob Vila only recommends using a weed blocker in between planting rows, not on where you grow things.