Mass weed/plant clearing...aka mass plant destruction!

If there's an area you'd like to clear of plants/weeds for another project one might think you'd have to rent a digger/backhoe or spend days pulling weeds. Luckily there's a way to kill the plants without having to use poison. It works particularly well with sunny patches of yard.

Cover the area with a thick dark tarp, usually made of plastic. Hold down the edges of the tarp with rocks or bricks or whatever heavy sort of thing you happen to have lying around. Try to seal it off as well as you can and leave the tarp in place for a week or two. The plants underneath will not get any sunlight or water. It gets mighty warm under the tarp in direct sunlight. Let's just say that it's not idea conditions for plants to thrive under a hot tarp without water etc. The plants underneath the tarp, hopefully, should whither and die within a week or two.