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They might, next season. I just layer over season to season. You might have to ‘patch’ resistant areas if you have a long growing season too.

Usually we cut the grass before stuff goes to seed. And the hay clippings will sprout but usually not before winter.

As long as you have 4-6 layers of newspaper (overlapped at least 6” in my experience) or one layer of the corrugated (overlapped 6” too). I flat the big boxes all the way out and lay papers over the slits. The thinner cardboard I usually incorporate as part of the newspapers. It all breaks down.

I’ll see if I can find some pictues of what I do and post them.

I keep a large amazon box unflatted in my garage and fill it with the flatted shipping type boxes (corrugated stuff). I’ll usually end up with 3 or 4 of these between what we get over the course of a year and what hubby snags from work. I have smaller boxes I use to separate newspapers/salepapers/junk mail and that sort of smaller paper. And some more boxes for flatted household type cardboard (cereal boxes, pizza boxes, cake mix boxes, etc).

We buy round bales of hay, usually from the guy across the road or a farmer we know a few miles away. Hubby has a sweeper on the back of the four wheeler and we ‘helpfully’ offer to sweep neighbors leaves in the fall and keep them in piles in the shade/north side of our shop until we use them. We also let our yard (such that we still have after I’ve grown the garden plot so much lately) grow 10” or so and hubby will cut it in such a way to blow the clippings from several passes into one row to make it easier to rake. I’ve got a garden cart I use to ferry these back to the garden and use these to patch during the summer or just replenish spots that get beaten down by foot traffic.

YMMV.

I’d have never thought about doing this myself, my MIL clued me in.