A Great landscaping tip

Spring is in the air, which means there may be some of you who are working on some landscaping projects.  Here's a great tip: use newspaper instead of that horrible, black "weed-stop" fabric.

Put the newspaper over the dirt 3-4 pages thick and then cover it with mulch. The newspaper will prevent any grass and weed seeds from germinating, but unlike fabric, it will decompose after about 18 months. By that time, any grass and weed seeds that were present in the soil on planting will be dead.  It’s green, it’s cheaper than fabric, and when you decide to remove or redesign the bed later on, you will not have the headache you would with fabric.