Super Smother Mulch
If you're willing to wait a year or two before planting, you can simply mulch weeds away. Even the toughest weeds will eventually succumb to Super Smother Mulch.
- Pull up by the roots or cut down all the existing weeds in your garden area and water it well.
- For small, annual weeds, lay on about 12 sheets of newspaper and weigh it down with hay, straw, or any other heavy mulch.
- For tough perennials, you may need to pile the newspapers several inches (2.5 cm) thick or use cardboard, making sure to overlap the edges.
- Cover the whole area with bark, wood chips, shredded leaves, or other attractive organic mulch.
- Leave the Smother Mulch in place for an entire season, then remove it or till it into the soil if it is mostly decomposed.
- If the weed roots aren't dead, you can leave the Smother Mulch on for a second season.
- You can plant large crops like pumpkins, winter squash, or tomatoes in holes cut through the mulch.
- Make sure you pull out any weed shoots that poke through.
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