Arts & Entertainment Put away the tiller and try earth-friendly sheet mulching for garden beds Sheet mulching uses layers of recycled cardboard and newspaper to smother weeds.

Leigh Adams, a landscape designer for Studio Petrichor, places cardboard around a sprinkler during the sheet mulching workshop at the Maryknoll Sisters retirement home in Monrovia.

How Old Cardboard Boxes Can Help Your Garden Sheet mulching with cardboard is the secret to fewer weeds and fuss-free plant-bed prep.

Sheet mulching is nothing more than applying a thick blanket of wood chips, leaf litter or other plant material layered over cardboard or newspaper. The cardboard smothers the weeds and serves as ...

I decided to use sheet mulching to reclaim the bed without the necessity of digging grass over an extended area. I applied cardboard and mulch from the row of hurricane lilies back throughout the ...

Perhaps the best thing about sheet mulching with newspaper or cardboard — an effective way to keep weeds under control and moisture in the soil — is that doing it in your yard or garden really ...

Using newspaper or cardboard as a layer underneath mulch will smother the weeds by denying them sunlight so that they rot away.

The solution to addressing this challenge was sheet mulching, a method that can be used on many types of areas that a gardener wants to prepare for new planting.

A: Sheet mulching is a soil amending technique that saves labor, time and water. It also reduces waste materials, weed populations and produces an excellent planting soil.

Used as sheet mulching, for example, cardboard can be layered with other materials to create a fresh start in your garden bed.