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Rubber matting - S/hand 4 Weed control?

howsshenow · 2019-02-13 21:01:06

Hi, Wondering if any one knows where I could get my hands on preferably second hand rubber matting to use as weed control around fruit bushes etc? There's bound to be tons of it dumped from running tracks, astro turf pitches etc. The cost of purchasing the agricultural grade matting is prohibitive. All in the effort to use…

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13-02-2019 10:01pm

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howsshenow

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Hi, Wondering if any one knows where I could get my hands on preferably second hand rubber matting to use as weed control around fruit bushes etc?
There's bound to be tons of it dumped from running tracks, astro turf pitches etc. The cost of purchasing the agricultural grade matting is prohibitive.
All in the effort to use less herbicide.
Thanks.

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#2 13-02-2019 10:20pm
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If you type "weed control" in Adverts, you'll get lots of ads. You can search for "rubber matting", too, or "rubber mats", but the only ones I found were rubber "tyles", for lack of a better description.

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#3 13-02-2019 10:21pm
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Try phoning up an astro park football centre.

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#4 13-02-2019 11:11pm
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Old conveyor belts from factories?

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