You can almost hear it: the crunch of crisping lawns all over L.A., thanks to the ongoing drought and recent restrictions on outdoor watering. It’s no surprise, then, that many Angelenos are thinking ...

Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilizing the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting ...

Have extra cardboard boxes from online shopping? Don’t throw them away. You can reuse them in your garden or yard as a low-cost way to stop weeds and enrich your soil. Using cardboard as a weed ...

While weeds seem inevitable, they can be preventable if you’re prepared. One easy, inexpensive method? Using cardboard in ...

Sheet mulching is a useful technique for getting rid of weeds in large areas of your garden. It’s cheap, effective and is a way to kill weeds without using herbicides. Using newspaper or cardboard as ...

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 isn’t ...

Flush with cardboard, the author adopts the common practice of using it as a mulching medium. Is cardboard mulch toxic? Recent research shows PFAS can accumulate in crop vegetables. A simple home test ...

If oxalis is smothering your garden like gravy over biscuits, consider sheet mulching. Or, if you've got a lawn you want to get rid of, or soil that needs enriching, sheet mulch it. With one nearly ...

There's a growing trend toward less lawn and more plants. Homeowners are creating larger planted beds that incorporate pollinator-friendly native and adapted flowers, shrubs and even fruits and ...

Most paper can only be recycled about eight times before the paper fibers get too short to be repurposed. However, there are ways to reduce paper waste and keep junk mail and other old papers out of ...