To make a really really long story short, I was successfully killing my yard with cardboard and weights which was the best method I could find online to do it without spending an arm and a leg on mulch/soil or poisoning the soil/my dogs with herbicides. My goal is to replace it with microclovers and I got a patch growing already. It was going great.
Only colossal hick up is that I'm being coded by code enforcement to pick up the cardboard and weights because the inspector labeled it as trash. I called the inspector to explain its purpose, that it is temporary, and to ask for what I could use so that he wouldn't cite me. He told me, "if you used wood instead I'd still give you a citation." so clearly not very helpful at all. I'm faced with finding a new method or leaving it there, getting the citation, having to go to the hearing to explain it, and likely losing a whole days worth of pay.
If anyone knows of any methods I could use that are just as effective, without destroying the soil, and isn't an eye sore, that would be greatly appreciated.
by giffex
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