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Hi Monica
Sorry to confuse you, in the piece here I am giving an example and should have mentioned that the paper was triple thickness and it was mostly dry for three months so it stopped regrowth of dandelions but was intact enough to roll up and reuse this year on a mulched potato bed. Evven now some of it is there i.e. it was strong paper, a commercial product of the eighties, unavailable now I think.
Re cardboard yes it needs weighting at edges and we use stones or posts as you can see in various photos, then put another layer of card on top if it has been moist and mild and edges are rotting. The photo shows a time when I tried cardboard under the cpmpost, now I suggest it is better on top so as to rot less quickly and have a longer mulching effect.
So many things like this are experimental and I rty pointing readers in the directions which have been most fruitful here. Sharing your experience of the new allotment is great and I hope others will also say what has and has not worked for them.