The combination of the landscape fabric and the mulch stops light getting to the soil and slows or stops germination and growth of weeds.

Mulch is used for a number of reasons, the most popular being weed control.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty"

"Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

You'll see that when the tides slow down, everything slows down.