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Loyce Calk
As always Kevin you have the best ideas for natural gardening and the issues that befall those of us that choose not to poison our property and pets and ourselves with chemicals that would just make it worse in the long run anyhow. I will be doing this as soon as I can locate enough newspaper and cardboard as we have terrible clay soil and I fight the weeds constantly and its so time consuming that I have gotten frustrated and told my boyfriend that I was going to dig it all up and buy plastic flowers and cement GGRRR! You have renewed my hope Thanks once again You are a Gem !!
As far as your instructions for smothering weeds with newspaper, how many sheets thick do you lay it? I would imagine only one or two sheets thick would not be enough. I love this method and am eager to try it on some raised beds I have that continuously get all kinds of tenacious weeds, particularly nut sedge, which is very hard to get rid of.
I need to get rid of weeds where a wide, simple stone path is to go, so it needs to be a more permanent fix. I am going to try to kill them with vinegar, and then lay black plastic, and then mulch.
But I am afraid the plastic will be slippery. Tried landscape cloth but weeds grew through it. Do you have a better idea?
How would you recommend getting rid of weeds that are growing in rock beds? I dont want to kill plants or shrubs. I cant use newspaper as it would dissolve on top of rocks. I have tried to pull them out but they come back. So tired of them. Thanks
I live in Ontario Canada and have moved into a house that the gardens are over run with weeds some as tall as 4 -5 feet last spring I pulled them out but they have all returned do you think this methed of cardboard ( which I can get plenty of ) will work to get reid of them?
hi I am going to try the new paper or card board to get ridge of weeds but the black spots that appear on the leaves of my blackeye susan and corn flowers this has been going on now for years I have spray them with a fungus pesticide do you think I should get ridge of the soil and start all new plants and soil I need help thanks marion
My neighbour has been advocating the newspaper method for quite some time. I had a property management company come and do a spring cleanup, weeding, mulching, etc. (Garden was a mess.) I requested that they lay newspaper before spreading the mulch and they did not do so. So, I now have a very thick layer of black mulch and TONS of weeds. Just wondering how I shoukd proceed from this point?
This works amazing. First I took boiling water and poured it all over the area I was making a plant bed for this season. Then i put down the newspaper and we poured more boiling water. Then we put the mulch and the NOTHING grew. I was amazed this year how clean the area was with all the rain we got. I was going to do a planter bed there but found some beautiful planters and we put down fresh mulch and the planters with beautiful color and it looks amazing.
Hello Kevin, as good as newspapers are for weeds, I wonder whether you have a natural solution to curbing or getting rid of Mosquito infestation? I have a small potted garden and the blessed mosquito as invaded and making my life a misery when sitting out.
Pots have roses, impatient, portalacula,sage, rosemary,basil, geranium. I do hope you have a solution! Thank you in advance.
Hello, I have a lot of weeds in my garlic bed and want to do this. However I also want to plant my garlic (fall planting) will my garlic pop through the newspaper or should I try to place it on top? What do you suggest?
I have heard some great success stories regarding the use of newspaper instead of traditional weed mat, and newspaper is much less expensive. The key is to use very thick layers, ten sheets or more, to create a more dense barrier to smother the weeds. The newspaper will break down as it gets wet and weathered, so the thicker the layers the longer it takes to break down. I have been hoarding the pennysavers and local papers that are thrown on my driveway every week. I am also collecting the old pennysavers from the local paper stands, which just get recycled anyways. I am so tired of pulling weeds, although it is good exercise.
An excellent use of the NYT
I live in a major metro area. I and my friends or neighbors do not subscribe to our local newspaper. It has been next to impossible getting old news paper. Ive tried the usual sources-no luck. I have resorted to cardboard (amazon) but weeds still come up, although not as many. And the worms love it.
I lay down all of the cardboard we accumulate on my cleaned up veggie garden in the fall-If you need tons of cardboard there is usually a pickup night in town where the merchants put all their accumulated and tied up cardboard out. Fantastic.
Then cover with leaves and straw from the summer season. It sits and decomposes all winter. In the spring I open black bags of chopped leaves that have been out in the sun all winter and decomposed enough-Spread that again and magically, the garden is ready to go. No tilling-No weeds.
Just dig where seeds and plants go. I am also collecting and using very large black plastic pots to grow veggies in more raised beds. Heavy weeding is a distant memory. Just pick at a thing here or there and my time is my own.
Here in Wisconsin we get lots of rain and very tough weeds. We started using your method of using newspapers around our tomatoes to prevent splashing soil diseases on the leaves but even with 4 layers of paper, it decomposed before the end of the summer. When we quite subscribing to the newspaper, we switched to using paper grocery bags and they work beautifully. Cut the bags open and use the same technique you describe, making sure to wet them down. We mulch with grass clippings or straw and keep almost all the surface of our garden covered. It is so much nicer to walk on these less slippery surfaces than on mud and we hardly have to do any weeding. The paper bags are just about decomposed at the end of the season when we are planting our winter ground cover. Thanks for the great low maintenance method!
I collect bags of leaves to shred as mulch and actually use the empty leaf bags as you do news paper. One can cover much larger spaces when they are cut open, are double layered, and when applied in the fall helps to control weeds and allows bulbs to come up, as the paper is soft by the time of the arrival of spring. Should one notice humps coming up pushing the paper and raising the mulch leaf cover, all one has to do to allow the bulbs to get through is take a knife and make an X in the paper much, the bulbs come through and the paper settles in and protects. Been thinking of perhaps running leaf bags through a shredder as well.
I have horrible weeds, especially chickweed with the stickers. Would vinegar penetrate deep into the soil or would I still need to till up the soil for new grass. Also, is there any grass that stays green all year that suffocates weeds? Also, the kind that look like tall grass but the stem grows sideways. I want all the grass gone but I like the idea of the newspapers. and mulch.
I live in north central Texas. I began using this method last year when a new bed quickly started becoming overtaken with Bermuda grass where I too had planted expensive day lilies. A year later, I only have to occassionally pull grass from the beds, but it is very easy to keep up with as I do the pulling as I am deadheading and watering. The daylillies are thriving! I just completed new rose beds and again, used this method. We quit getting the local newspaper, so I went to the local U-Haul business and purchased a large box of dish packing paper, which IS clean newsprint. I paid $10. This is a good option for those worried about the ink. Once my new rose bushes were planted, I covered the newsprint with a thick layer of cypress mulch. Looks beautiful
Hi Bonnie- Vinegar does not react with Sal Suds, which as a detergent is inherently more stable. However, we recently did effectiveness testing on this one because I get a lot of questions, and Sal Suds mixed with vinegar is less effective at cleaning than Sal Suds alone.
Against my better judgement, my wife has been using a water-vinegar solution to clean everything for some years. Now, as predicted, very expensive plumbing fixtures and mirrors are showing damage from repeated exposure to the acidic solution. Chrome plate is failing and silver coated glass (mirrors) are failing. If Castile soap leaves a film if not rewashed with vinegar, than it does not sound like a very good solution to this problem. Any comments are appreciated.
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