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I want to make some ground cover this year for my graveyard. We live in AZ and do not have fall leaves. Has anyone tried making ground cover? I was thinking maybe getting landscape fabric cutting it to the size of my kidney shaped grassy area and hot gluing fake leaves on it. I thought with the fogger this might look ok. What do you think?

Has anyone done anything similar or could give me some suggestions to make my cemetery ground look spookier.

what about some camo netting from an army surplus store? Not sure how much that stuff costs but you could even give the ground some uneven surfaces, plus it looks kind of creepy already.

I live in NY and we have more than enough to go around. I can send you some!

You know I am in AZ too not ideal cemetery yards, but I wouldn't cover what grass you already have, I would just let it get long and nappy looking work it into the scene. Maybe put a creepy fountain in the middle. Then I go to Hobby Lobby and add a bunch of those large plastic grasses to the yard around the tombstones.

I semi can feel your pain... i am in Texas and we dont have a single tree in our yard except for palms so we needed to improvise by trekking down to the local park where there are tons of pine trees that drop their needles for a long time. We take garbage bags and fill them up several times over, then when its over we rake it back up and nicely put it back where we got it! If there are areas like this where you are you can try it.

I have 2 ideas... one thing you can do is try to get free fill dirt which I'm sure you've seen signs for ...load up a truckbed and spread onto lawn(for easier clean up you can lay down plastic black bags or large cheap plastic tarps before unloading the dirt...if cost allows go to the dollar store and buy a few bunches of fake leaves that look like fall leaves and dirty them up with some spray paint. OR you can use a tarp and make some monster mud type concoction to spread over the tarp and then spray paint it up to get the look you want adding rocks, sand, etc to get a more earth look. Hope this helps!

Personally I wouldn't bother with the landscaping fabric. I recommend buying some fall leaf garland. The garland vs bunches of leaves, you can stretch it out or clump it together easier. Then use landscape fabric staples to hold the leaves in place.

You don't have to use fall leaves...I've seen some very neat cemeteries on here where people just had lots and lots of overgrown grass and weeds. I kind of prefered that look, it made it creepier.
If you mix them both you won't have to make or buy so many fall leaves!

I saw some one use basically a large brown beach towel and roughed it up added some fake spanish moss and staked it into the ground, you could use grass clippings , plastic bags filled with paper under the towel to make it look like a dirt mound... dont remember where I saw it

Two things come to mind-

1st, does your cemetary have to have leaves? If you're in AZ, why not have the Boot Hill look to compliment the natural scenery. If you are only going to have it in your grassy area, then the suggestion of letting your grass grow long and unkept is a good one. Add moss to the tombstones and you're good to go.

2nd, If you're using fog, especially low lying fog, be aware that you may not need ground cover as the fog may obscure it anyway.

Agree. Don't waste your time with ground cover. A couple of fog machines with good low lying fog will be perfect. The eyes are looking at your props and not the ground. Focus on what will be seen and imagined. We let our grass grow and a few leaves that fall in our neighbors yard will wander over. We live in the Midwest where Halloween can be 80 degrees or 30 degrees and windy.