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KOMPAS.com – Stacks koran long time do not throw it in the trash. Sheet after sheet can be used to grow crops in the yard.
By taking advantage of old newspapers, you will obviously save your money. Besides also, helping to save the environment by not producing a lot of waste.
There are several creative ways to use newspapers for the yard. The following are some of them:
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1. Prevent weeds from damaging crops
Weeds are annoying sometimes. Especially in the rainy season, where grass can grow rapidly and rapidly between your ornamental plants and vegetables.
To prevent this, you can use old newspapers that have piled up in warehouses. The trick, look for a colorless newspaper, which only uses black ink on the surface.
Then, cut up the newspaper according to the area you want to keep weeds free.
Place the newspaper pieces in the marked area, then pile them with soil or planting media.
The area where there is a sheet of newspaper will not grow grass for about a year, or until the newspaper rots into compost.
The soil on top of which is pile of newspapers will not be able to reach the sunlight, so the grass seeds in it will not be able to grow.
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2. Managed into compost
Take newspaper and cut or tear it into small pieces. Mix it with other household waste that also contains a lot of carbon, such as dry leaves and wood sawn residue.
Get a compost container, then add the strips of newspaper and other carbonaceous materials up to 10cm high.
At the top, place kitchen waste that contains a lot of nitrogen, such as vegetable chunks and weeds, up to 10 cm high.
Make layers like this pile up, alternating until the container is full. Then stir and give a little water until it’s moist.
Every two days, alternating layers of compost, the top one being put down and the bottom one being put on top. Do this so that the decay can be evenly distributed.
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3. Trap plant pests
Launch from The Spruce, old newspapers can also be used to catch plant pests.
By evening, place a few sheets old newspaper which is damp because it is given water around the yard plants.
Plant pests such as insects and snails and some other nocturnal animals like to hide in damp places.
The next morning, it is guaranteed that there will be many insects and snails trapped in the pages of the used newspaper.
4. Making pots for the nursery
Tear up sheets of newspaper then soak them in water with a ratio of 2: 1 between newspaper and water.
After overnight, the next morning crush the newspaper by kneading it with your fingers or stirring it with an egg beaten.
Squeeze the newspaper from the water, then place it in a glass of mineral water. Flatten to coat the entire surface of the glass.
Once dry, remove it from the plastic cup and this small pot is ready to be used to put the seeds of the plant.
5. Maintain the humidity of the earthenware pot
Earthenware pot illustration-
Plants and soil in earthenware or terracotta pots are prone to drying out in summer. This is because the potting soil has a lot of pores which can make the water content volatile.
To keep the terracotta pot moist, you can wrap the pot in old newspaper after the plant is watered in the morning.
The sheets of newspaper will keep the terracotta pots moist and wet.
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