Uses of Newspaper in Gardening

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Today I am gonna jot down few useful hacks with newspaper in kitchen gardening 😊

Am gonna keep it short and leave it all on your own to experiment, experience and have fun with these hacks !!

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• The newspapers can be used as paper planter for seedlings. Do it as a fun activity with children, they can learn about recycling and gardening.

• Newspapers can be used for mulching and they are excellent to control weed growth.

• Newspapers retain moisture and add carbon-based organic matter to the soil as they decompose.

• Newspaper can be used to slow the moisture loss in container garden. This is very useful in summers, check the reference image.

• Compost bins emitting a strong ammonia smell, due to an excess of nitrogenous materials, When added newspaper to the compost bin it  create the perfect mix of nitrogen and carbon for the compost bin.

Hope this bit of info was useful for you !!

Will come back with another interesting topic soon… Feel the joy of gardening until next time !!

Chandana Venkatesh