This can be with plastic sheet groundcover fabric cardboard and newspaper old carpets or what have you.
How to kill bad weeds with a sheet of plastic.
An organically accepted and relatively fast way to kill weed seeds as well as other pests and pathogens with limited labor is solarization heating the soil enough to kill unwanted organisms by.
Leave the plastic in place for six to eight weeks in a hot summer climate or eight to 10 weeks in a cooler area.
With luck your garden is growing some lovely goodies right about now whether you 39 ve planted for looks or for food.
Lift the corners of the.
This can kill weed seeds and roots as well as soil.
You may also be growing a few unwelcome weeds here and there as well.
Clear plastic raises the temperature of the soil.
A black plastic covering combines the solarizing effects of a clear plastic covering with light exclusion provided by the opaque coloring of the plastic.
The goal is to keep the plastic snugly up against the earth.
This idea is to block sunlight from reaching the soil which in turn will help to prevent the growth of those annoying weeds.
This smothers weeds and heats the soil to.
The slower but more effortless way of clearing ground is to kill the weeds by stopping them seeing any light.
Simply cover the weeds and they turn yellow and die.