Saturday, May 21, 2011

Mulching and weed control using newspapers

This is a section of creek bank that is progressing quite well. We've planted things like red cedar, various lilly pillies, some tree ferns, swamp mahognay and a bunch of other stuff and they are coming along well. HelpXer Fabien covered the grass up with newspapers to act as a weed mat and then Louis and Antoine did a bit of a repair job, plus added some fertilizer pellets and then covered with more newspaper.
Hopefully by the time the newspaper has broken down we'll have a reasonable canopy cover and the amount of grass growing underneath will diminish.

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