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Sun, Apr 3, 11 at 10:52
| I'm currently trying to clean up an area between our neighbour and ourselves. It has a few established plants (lilies, peonies, tulips and such), which I intend to keep. Now, our neighbour rents and really doesn't do any yardwork at all, so it'll be down to me to keep it looking neat an tidy. The area hasn't been touched in 3-4 years, and there are some "impressive" dandelions growing there, roots are over an inch thick in diameter. I've tried to remove as much of the roots as possible, but I know they'll be back. To give my weed barrier some extra help, I was wondering if it was a good idea to put down newspaper under the barrier. Anyone have some thoughts on this? |
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| Yes, I do it yard-wide. I lay down six to eight sheets of newspaper, weigh the newspaper down with seaweed as I go, then cover everything with leaf mulch or hay or straw or compost. I have also used cardboard, old clothing and, once, six feather pillows, as weed barriers. Worms love the newspaper. What will your upper mulch, your "weed barrier", be? |
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- Posted by mustard_seeds 4 -Onalaska Wisconsi (My Page) on Sun, Apr 3, 11 at 11:58
| I use cardboard as a weed barrier and over that put leaves or straw over that. The landscaping barrier fabric that you can purchase usually gets weeds growing on top eventually since weed seeds germinate in organic material that ends up over that that stuff. Weeds go through that fabric too and you can end up with quite a mess. Can you get your hands on leaves every fall and put down 6-8 inches of leaves on your area, to keep prevent new weed seed germination? In the spring you will have a lovely mulched area. |
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- Posted by LilBlossom 5 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 3, 11 at 11:58
| We got some free wood chips from our local municipality. It's not the prettiest, but money is tight and I'm sure it'll look better than the weeds that were there before. ;o) |
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