We have a backyard play area of about 400 square feet. In a lot of places, the landscape fabric is ripped and coming up through the rubber mulch, leaving areas of bare dirt. I don't think they used many, if any, landscape staples to hold the fabric down. There are some large areas where the fabric seems to be intact.
So my question is, should I rip up ALL the fabric and replace it, or can I patch it with liberal use of landscape staples to hold down the new fabric and secure the overlapping area? I have leftover fabric in the garage that would be enough for a patch job, but probably not enough for a complete redo.