Don't get scared, these shingles are serving a good purpose. I found a new way to use some of the extra crap taking up room in my garage. I had a pile of unused shingles in my garage that don't match the roof on my house. What am I going to do with them now?
I plant my plants on top of mounded rows, click here to read why. Pulling the weeds on top of the mounds doesn't take all that long, so it is not so bad to do. Now, what about the walking path between the rows? I do not want to spend hours pulling weeds from a walking path, but it also looks terrible with tons of weeds growing in the garden. I'm going to choke them out.
As you can see in the video, I simply laid shingles along the path right over the top of the weeds. Weeds are just like any other plant and needs the sunlight to grow. The shingles will totally cut them off, and they make a nice walking surface. I just overlapped them a little bit to make sure the weeds are covered well. I don't see a need to nail them together or anything. This way they should still be good for next year, granted they can take the walking on. I'm not a roofer so I'm just guessing.
Other options would be to use a dark colored plastic tarp or sheeting, or lay some untreated wood down. Wood will most likely rot through the season, but if it is something you have laying around with no other use, why not? The idea is to cut the sunlight from the weeds, thus "choking them out". I hope you can use this to figure out a way to control your weeds in unused areas of the garden.
Remember, Mother Earth smiles when you garden!
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