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Do you have the newspaper delivered to your home or office daily? When you’ve finished reading it, does it take up a lot of room in your refuse? Or pile up, waiting to be delivered to a recycling depot? There´s an alternative for gardeners to end this space consuming issue.

If you are planning to put paths in your garden, and would like an inexpensive way to stabilize them and retard weed growth without chemicals, try old newspapers. The results are clean, economical, and environmentally friendly.

Newsprint is a highly biodegradable material, though if it is stacked in deep layers it can take a long time to deteriorate. Used as the bottom layer for garden paths, it can last for years, and is easily tillable when you want to change the landscape.

Plan out your pathways just as you would with any other materials. Open out your newspapers so that there is still a center fold, and they are longer than they are wide. Be sure to add at least a quarter inch depth of material along each pathway you want. This will take a lot of newspaper. It is suggested that you lay out a section of pathway at a time, or save up your newspaper as you would for any other recycling function.

Line the edges of your paths as desired. Stone work, garden fencing, and even cut logs can make lovely path borders. Be careful with natural materials such as logs. If not properly treated, these can lead to colonies of termites or carpenter ants in your garden, giving them an opportunity to spread further.

Use pebbles, crushed limestone, pea gravel, or crushed clay to fill in the paths, covering all the paper. Make your path material even in depth and be sure it covers from border to border along your path. This step can be very quick if you order your material from an earth business who delivers by the cubic yard.

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