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Transcript: Weed Control
When you put a covering of mulch over the soil, you really deter a lot of weed seeds coming up and ruining your landscape. Unmulched areas, however, can become very weedy and unsightly. All is not lost just because you start to get some weeds. Let me show you a quick and easy way to go from a weedy mess to a really nice neat attractive landscape without too much work.You want to begin by thoroughly wetting the weeds with a water hose. Do this at night or your neighbors will know you’ve gone off your rocker watering your weeds. After your weeds are wet, you want to lay about 4 to 6 sheets of newspaper over them to thoroughly cover them up and block the sunlight out. They’ll then die and decompose underneath the paper. Any tall weeds can be pulled up and simply left laying on the surface, or broken over so the newspaper lays down well. Then cover the paper with some kind of mulch, such as pine needles or wood chips. This provides a very attractive covering. The paper will last several months before the mulch takes over.
So, as you can see, this is a fast and easy way to turn a weedy mess into a nice garden area. Sometimes folks are concerned about using colored newsprint, but there’s really no concern with that. You can just cover the area with it. It’s no problem and it decomposes quite rapidly. You do want to, however, watch out for some gardening sections, especially during political season, that provide a little too much nitrogen for growing plants. Other than that, use whatever part of the newspaper you like.
With your common sense tip for gaining ground with weeds, I’m Skip Richter.
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July 6, 2006