No matter what you do in your yard to stop them, those ugly weeds have a habit of raising their heads as soon as they turn their back. Even if my backyard was filled with planting, I know they still crawl prompt A chance to hurt me.
However, there is a weed hack that will not spend you even a single penny, until you rely on the morning newspaper to read your news. People who turn to your phone for the latest updates, aluminum and glass will not have the same effect.
But, if you are an old school, back down from keeping your newspapers out with garbage, and reuse them in your yard, as the newspaper makes an ideal weed repressive, according to the newspaper Green Living Expert Terry Bennett.
Bennett says, “Weeds are a ban of gardeners everywhere.” In a YouTube video for Howdini, She shares how to eliminate weeds in your yard without using toxic chemicals.
And she describes using the newspaper as “simple, cheap and completely safe solutions” to get rid of weeds.
How to use newspaper as a weed
However, before you start, release the pages of any newspaper with shiny pages. They will take longer than a newspaper and can cause damage to ink.
1. To prevent your newspapers from blowing them to soak them well with water.
2. Overlap your layers about six inches, make sure that there is no interval for mourning. Use about 6-8 sheets at a time. The more thick as the layer of the newspaper, the better weed control you will get.
3. Let the newspaper layers soak another.
4. Cover the newspapers with leaves, grass clippings, or bark, as it disrupts newspapers, helps keep them in place, and acts as a wet grass.
How does the newspaper work to prevent weeds?
Bennett compared using a newspaper for laying a black landscape fabric, but unlike clothes, you will not have a dime in the used newspaper.
She says, “The newspaper will not allow the sunlight to shine through weeds waiting for the emergence. Unlike plastic barriers, which can overheat, the newspaper still allows to leak through air and water.
The newspaper also helps maintain soil moisture, reduces evaporation (should be one during high temperature), and it helps manage soil temperature, keeping it cool in summer and keeping it warm in winter, adding organic materials.
And she says, in addition to suppressing weeds, “newspapers also encourage earthworm activity, which will eventually break the material, turn your current soil into better soil.”
