Post #2567236
2026-05-15 00:01 UTC
@clew@ecoevo.social I've usually used large sheets of paper, (newspaper or butcher's paper,) with mulch over it. I don't see why cardboard wouldn't work too. The paper usually lasts a year or two, by which point the mulch is decomposing anyway. I add another layer of paper and more mulch if I want to continue suppressing plant growth in that spot. Eventually it all decomposes.
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@clew@ecoevo.social 2026-05-15 05:52
I’m impressed that paper stops anything measured in sheets not bundles — I’m currently having flailed-once blackberries try to punch through landscape fabric by regrowing. And occasionally succeed, dang it, pale and eerie though they are. It’s a race with the pullerbear. @trachelipus@masto.ai