There are so many benefits of laying abandoned old newspapers on the soil to make the soil fertile and weed-free.

Will the discarded old newspapers be spread directly on the soil surface to make the soil more fertile and avoid weeds? It sounds crazy, but it's a great gardening technique.

If you are a nature lover, you must learn that newspapers can't be littered, but you can collect them, improve the soil in the yard and avoid weeds.

This is a trick developed by an old gardener himself. You can try it in the backyard. If you have a small yard overgrown with weeds and you don't want to buy all kinds of chemical herbicides, you might as well use this method. This is his yard below, and the soil is very barren at first.

If you don't have an old newspaper, you can use some black plastic film, cardboard, straw or wood instead, and the effect is similar. You can even prepare some fallen leaves or rotten sawdust to cover them on the soil surface, which can prevent weed seeds from sprouting under the soil and help to improve the soil condition.

Cover the old newspaper around the plants and flowers, as shown in the following picture, avoid all kinds of ornamental flowers when covering the newspaper, and then water it regularly.

After covering the newspaper, it is necessary to water regularly, that is, to let the water permeate the newspaper or other mulch, which can keep the soil loose, improve the soil structure and attract earthworms to improve soil fertility.

After laying a layer of newspaper, it should also be covered with a layer of fallen leaves or rotten sawdust about 3 to 5 centimeters thick, and can also cover some bark, which are good choices.

Newspapers use some that do not have too many chemical compositions. now most newspapers are lead-free, which can degrade itself and prevent the growth of weeds.

Eventually, the fallen leaves and sawdust, as well as the newspaper at the bottom, are completely rotten, and the soil in the yard becomes more fertile, a process that takes a long time, usually about half a year.

Finally, we can find that there are many earthworms in the new soil, which are very helpful to improve the fertility of the soil.

If you don't have an old newspaper, you can use something else instead, and all kinds of cardboard that are more perishable are also good.

If you don't like using all kinds of chemical fertilizers to improve the soil in the yard, you might as well use these natural methods to improve the soil fertility in the yard.

Is this method suitable for you? It's worth a try for me.