What Kind Of Shredded Paper Can You Use?
Newsprint, brown paper, and office paper can be shredded and used in the garden.
The same goes for any cardboard with a glossy coating.
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Concerned gardeners can always avoid using shredded paper in the vegetable garden or only use unbleached paper.
Shredding the paper beforehand will help it break down much faster.
Shredded paper is a carbon-rich material, or brown ingredient.
Green ingredients are nitrogen-rich materials such as kitchen scraps and grass cuttings.
so you can produce compost quickly, you gotta manage the process.
you might compost paper in four to six weeks using these methods.
Passive, hands-off composting can take as long as a year.
There are a few things to keep in mind when using paper mulch.
Shredded paper also may break down more slowly than mulch or leaves.
Shredded paper works well for this purpose.
Fill a paper bag or cardboard box with paper, then nestle the bulbs inside.
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