Garden Mulch Question

Want to do a bunch of mulching in the garden next year. I know straw is good (do not have a compost pile which I know is best). Have heard of shredded newspaper. My question is how good would office scrape paper work? My new job, I work from home and will be accumulating some office paper waste and thought of using it. Would also shred the newspaper and use that also.
your opinions pleas.
 
I use newspaper for mulch. I usually use a "section" i.e. sports, classifieds, etc. I just lay them out between the rows or around the plants. By spring they are all decomposed and I plow/disc them under. Shredded paper should work fine. I do compost weeds, kitchen scraps (no meat or grease) and crop residue.

Larry
 
No need to shred it. Lay it down whole and it will stop the weeds and as it get wet an all decompose and be just fine. If you shred it then you leave run for weeds to grow up and all
 

We used office paper shred for a year. later I found out there is some plastics in toner (the ink from laser printers and copiers) that might not be a good thing to have in your plants and it also sheds water as the outer layers get hard and crusty they make a dome that water can't easily get through but once it is soaked it stays wet for weeks like if an area gathers water in puddles. it also doesn't decompose as readily as newspaper seems to, I still find clods of it that are still not decomposed after a few years now. so we don't use it any more.
 

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