How To Kill Bad Weeds With A Sheet Of Plastic

With luck your garden is growing some lovely goodies right about now whether you 39 ve planted for looks or for food.

How to kill bad weeds with a sheet of plastic.

The idea behind this is the same as using landscaping fabrics plastic sheets or for that matter mulch by itself. Clear plastic raises the temperature of the soil. Simply cover the weeds and they turn yellow and die. This can be with plastic sheet groundcover fabric cardboard and newspaper old carpets or what have you.

Mow the area or strim it so that the weeds and plants are low to the ground lay heavy duty black polythene plastic sheeting on the ground and weight it down leave for 2 3 months in summer or six months in winter lift the plastic remove slugs and dig up perennial weeds. The goal is to keep the plastic snugly up against the earth. The slower but more effortless way of clearing ground is to kill the weeds by stopping them seeing any light. A black plastic covering combines the solarizing effects of a clear plastic covering with light exclusion provided by the opaque coloring of the 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. This idea is to block sunlight from reaching the soil which in turn will help to prevent the growth of those annoying weeds. You may also be growing a few unwelcome weeds here and there as well. This can kill weed seeds and roots as well as soil.

Leave the plastic in place for six to eight weeks in a hot summer climate or eight to 10 weeks in a cooler area.