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4. Cardboard and pizza boxes
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:45 PM
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They break down and are not laced with chemicals either. Spraying should not be part of any gardening routine because we’ve got to stop using herbicides and chemicals. Boiling water works, too but I only do that in cracks or in the sidewalk. Really conscious about trying not to kill our insect neighbors.

I am a prolific weed puller, and once you do it for a while, they stop growing. And sometimes I discover new plants that are really great that I never thought of planting since they grew naturally. That is how I ended up getting the most amazing nectarine tree! Didn’t know what it was, but it seemed like it was a tree not a weed. Within two years I have fruit that is like candy.

Weed pulling works really well and you can get your aggression about the state of the world out as you battle against nature.

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