On Jul 1, 3:50*pm, Smitty Two wrote:
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*Higgs Boson wrote:



I'm with the respondents who advised "baking" the area with black
plastic. *

Uh, plastic sheeting isn't used to "bake" the plants, it's used to stop
photosynthesis.

OK, so you don't like the term "bake". Fact is, sun beating down on
black plastic overheats the area underneath, killing vegetation.
Alsoblocks direct sun (which newspapers would also do), thus "stopping
photosynthesis".

HB