Archive for Gardening

Reduce weeds with newspaper

Newspaper weeds away!
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants, overlapping as you go, cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic but they will not get through wet newspapers.


Keep squirrels from eating your plants

To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.