Weed guard

Abstract

A weed guard that prevents weeds from growing along fences, buildings and other structures. The weed guard may be secured to the bottom of a fence, to vertically oriented structures, such as buildings or walls, or to horizontally oriented structures, such as sidewalks and driveways. The fence protecting weed guard has a plurality of linear guard links. The weed guard also has a plurality of post securing slots that secure adjacent linear guard links to one another while they are positioned around a fence post. The weed guard for building structures is a flexible, elongated body with a plurality of planar projection portions. One of the projection portions is mounted against the structure that is protected, one of the projection portions extends into the ground and one of the projection portions rests on top of the weeds.

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       12 . A weed guard comprising: 
 a flexible, elongated body having a plurality of planar projection portions and a pair of ends, said planar projection portions further comprising at least a base projection portion, a ground mounting projection portion and a back projection portion;    a plurality of connector holes disposed each of the pair of ends; and    a plurality of fasteners for connecting said weed guard to another weed guard;    wherein said back projection portion is mounted against a structure to be protected, said base projection portion is positioned on top of grass and weeds to prevent said grass and weeds from contacting said structure to be protected and said ground mounting projection portion is inserted into the ground to maintain said weed guard in a specific location.    
   
   
       13 . The weed guard according to  claim 12 , further comprising an adhesive placed on said back projection portion to secure said guard member against said structure to be protected.  
   
   
       14 . The weed guard according to  claim 12 , wherein said weed guard is made from a material selected from the group consisting of rubber and soft plastic.  
   
   
       15 . The weed guard according to  claim 12 , wherein said structure to be protected is selected from the group consisting of vertically oriented structures and horizontally oriented structure  
   
   
       16 . The weed guard according to  claim 12 , further comprising a plurality of corner links for fitting said weed guard around a corner of the structure to be protected.  
   
   
       17 . The weed guard according to  claim 12 , wherein said plurality of fasteners are dowels.  
   
   
       18 . A weed guard comprising: 
 a flexible, elongated body having a pair of ends, a front projection portion, a back projection portion, a ground mounting projection portion and a pair of inclined converging top projection portions forming a peaked upper portion;    a plurality of connector holes disposed on each of the pair of ends; and    a plurality of fasteners for connecting said weed guard to another weed guard;    whereby said weed guard is mounted to a horizontally disposed structure to protect the structure from damage caused by weeds and grass;    whereby said ground mounting projection portion is inserted into the ground between the horizontally disposed structure and the weeds and grass, said front projection portion is positioned over the horizontally disposed structure and the back projection portion is positioned over the weeds and grass.    
   
   
       19 . The weed guard according to  claim 18 , wherein said weed guard is made from a material selected from the group consisting of rubber and soft plastic.  
   
   
       20 . The weed guard according to  claim 18 , wherein said plurality of fasteners are dowels.