Hi,

I think we made a big mistake and I'm wondering if there's a way to fix it short of digging everything up.

Two weeks ago, we planted approximately 50 creeping thyme seedlings plus some pachysandra on a steep hill behind our house. We previously covered the hill with weed block cloth because the plan had always been to use groundcover eventually. Yesterday we had pretty heavy rain, and a lot of the thyme got covered in mud as the water ran down the hill. This didn't happen when the cloth was there. What can we do to prevent the mud from smothering the plants? Unfortunately we didn't really think this through before planting.

Any help would be really appreciated.