How To Use Newspaper As Weed Mat

Purchasing a weed mat.

How to use newspaper as weed mat.

Landscape fabric and newspaper both provide the benefits of a weed suppressing mulch in your garden beds but selecting the right one depends on your needs. Some gardeners also use newspaper for this purpose. Newspaper amends the soil leaving it soft and loose if it is currently hard. I got pregnant and wasn t able to tend to the garden like i should have and it was also insanely hot last year.

It probably would have been much better except for two things. Another thing i used was older carpet underlay the fibrous brown stuff with mulch on top. I m too cheap and don t want to spend the money on a weed mat. The newspaper will break down as it gets wet and weathered so the thicker the layers the.

The key is to use very thick layers ten sheets or more to create a more dense barrier to smother the weeds. If you use a permanent weed mat with annuals it will become ineffective in a year or two as you cut through it repeatedly to replant your. Rather than use the new method on the whole garden right away we figured. Any thinner and i found grasses like kikuyu could grow through it.

A high quality weed mat will suppress the growth of weeds and provides enough drainage for the soil underneath so it stays moist and nourished. I have heard some great success stories regarding the use of newspaper instead of traditional weed mat and newspaper is much less expensive. Way too many 100 degree days. Before buying a weed mat you need to take into some consideration the qualities which are very important to you.

We used newspaper last year and had decent results. I used newspaper and it was a great weed mat if you used about a a paper at a minimum. Layer on the newspaper. It s a great way to recycle old papers.

Newspapering your weeded flower beds is a cheap easy way to keep our unwanted weeds by denying them light.