It's Not Trash, It's Garden Gold
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ธ.ค. 2019
- Are you swimming in cardboard now that the holidays are over? Here is some ideas on how to turn all that cardboard into your best garden for next season! Cardboard can be used to really improve the biology of soil while also working to help keep your weeds at bay. If your interested in less weeding and better quality soil then turn all that old cardboard into a powerful garden tool.
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Hi Josh, worms don’t only feed on the cardboard but before it breaks down it provides them with a perfect “No tell motel” LOL and just so you know I didn’t come up with that myself, I went to a class on soil biology and we took a deep dive into worms.
😄 I like that, your right that's another great point. I bet that was a really awesome class to take!
The Citystead oh it was great ☺️ I learned so very much. I also walked away with a free starter deli container of red wigglers. That was just this past spring, and they are already needing to be spilt to a second container or maybe just into my garden 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Gold! We agree. Our garage is full of it!
Happy New Years!
Rob
Yeah I was slightly happy seeing all those packages start to show up knowing I now have stuff the start the next section of garden
Cardboard boxes make the best mulch! No weeds!
And it's such a great way to get rid of all those boxes
LOVE this idea!!!
Thank you for the great video. Using this on my new garden
I love your ideas!
Thanks for the information. Just what I was looking for.
Love it! Great advice Josh!
Thanks man
Great advice, we all seem to have an over abundance of cardboard. When I put down the weed mat the last time in my container garden I put cardboard underneath it and had only a couple places where the Bermuda grass grew through, which it will grow through most weed mats. Keep sharing you ideas.
I hate the weed mat and then replanting stuff into it, it always gets torn up and messed up but the cardboard breaks down and does the same thing
Thanks for the vid
Love me some amazon! I have a pile in the shop ready to be taken to the compost. I used cardboard for several years as a weed deterrent in the garden.
Nice, yeah I'm a big amazon fan and I'm glad they use a plain brown cardboard for their boxes
Its the ultimate lazy weed control and has so many benefits.
Great idea!
Thanks
You don't have any problems the kids will use all of them...😁 You can also burn them and use the ashes. Ashes are great for the garden.
They for sure use them, they use them almost to the point where they are ashes 😄
I’m not saying this to talk shit. I’ve used and still use cardboard to grow plants on(so much Bermuda grass on the 1 acre I garden on). But lately I’ve been getting concerned about using it. For one I foster bunnies , and I’ve heard multiple stories of bunnies dying from chemical amazing puts on there boxes to prevent rodents. And I’m also worried about the lack ( I shouldn’t say lack there is nothing) of laws that regulate , prevent , or even publicly disclose what is sprayed on these boxes. And that’s keeping ink or bleach out of the argument, because you talked about it already.
Yup. I save all cardboard for my garden
It's a great way to build soil and keep weeds down
Great video
Great info! Happy new year!
Thank you so much, happy New Years
Hey Josh, That was a awesome & entertaining video! Yes worms loves Carbon! I have about 2 million worms in my herd now, but one of my first bins bedding was shredded cardboard :)
smart man, we do the same. Works so good in garden beds.
interesting video. I wish i found your video before the first snowfall here in Toronto. I could have placed cardboards in my yard but good info i learned from you today. 👍
Great video. Happy new year !
Thanks and happy New Years
thank you, I saw my neighbor with cardboard in their yard and did not know why
Great video thanks 😊
Thank you!
That wind sure looks cold. Sounds like another busines idea collecting boxes. Have a great day.
Um maybe
Thank you for sharing. ❤ I have tons of cardboards😂
AWESOME. you can't even give away boxes nowadays. Just in time for mulching around my trees. Weeds always pop up through the pine needles. I was about to spend a grip of dough on weed blocker. Preparing my spring garden bed
I'm not a huge fan of the weed blocker stuff, and the cardboard boxes will break down and just become soil perfect use for them
Works quicker if you shred it first. I bought the cheapest 12 sheet paper shredder from Amazon and now shred all their boxes. It's shared between my four worm farms. Incidently you mentioned shiny processed cardboard. I peel off the shiny fronts, leaving the plain cardboard underneath.
Hi, if you dont mind can u pls tell me the name & model # of that cardboard shredder you bought from Amazon? Thanks
@@thecyclingcouple4438 Hi, it was a Bonsaii. I notice they also have 15 sheet Bonsaii shredders in stock now 👍🏻👍🏻
We plan to use cardboard as well. We have a ton of it.😆 Maybe someday we'll get to using it. Happy New Year to you and your family Josh!!🎉
You'll be getting there this year I'm sure, thanks and Happy New Years to you guys
Very good video, and informational. I am planning on adding vegetable peelings to the garden mixed with small torn pieces of card board I think that will really help the soil come planting time. What do you think? Thank You
I'm on the Hunt for cardboard!
I wonder if the city has a pile of it like they do other materials they would let people take
I use cardboard all over my palatial estate of 1/4 acre. It works wonders and is a great item for composting. Just remember to remove any plastic tapes or labels that are not biodegradable. This includes the nylon reinforced paper tapes. Great video! Using our cardboard saves on garbage space in landfills too.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Very true, got to get rid of that darned plastic tape
Whats the white thing hanging from the tree in the 3:00 area? Nice shirt! Great info thanks :)
A pod swing thing for the kids
Darn you, Josh!!! Literally editing a video on the same subject!! But, nevertheless great info, bud!!! Happy new year! Cheers!
😄 Sorry man, I was looking and really wondering why there weren't more videos like that with everyone swimming in boxes right now
🎶We are all swimming in Amazon boxes!!! 🎶
Ha. I recorded something like this today.
I pull the shipping tape off because it decomposes much slower than the cardboard.
What is cardboard made of? I really don’t know for sure so I hesitate to put it on my garden.
All those dyes are supposed to be food grade.
I'm starting our front planter from scartch. If I place this down over the existing weeds, etc and water it a bit-- how long will it take because it's broken down? : )
Great video, thank you.
I would say in a years time it will most likely we broken down all the way. It will draw up worms and they will eat at it also but if your soil is thick over it and you mulch then the weeds shouldn't be a problem
ive been burning cardboard recently and noticed that the Amazon boxes have a green flame when burned while the other cardboard boxes dont.idk why.something is different about the Amazon cardboard..
I did this last fall for new beds and had great success. What about subsequent years? Do you reapply? Because I always have an abundance of cardboard and leaf mulch.
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Christmas trees are also great. But maybe everyone knows that already?
I bet they don't but we do a fake tree, so I can't make that video 😂
@@Citystead haha! Yeah that's definitely not good for the garden! 🤣
I used the bad stuff fro homemade fire logs like spit balls of toilet paper mixed with some saw dust you don’t need saw dust but I have a lot so why not add it it will get us more stuff to burn for free
That's a cool idea
You're the only other guy i know with black barrels. Checkout my latest video of my 42 barrels!
(You may also like the way i make soil.)
Where do you get your barrels?
We use cardboard to start our fires and we use it liberally in the garden!
Awesome, good way to use it too for starting those fires
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Thing is all the ink on the cardboard goes into the soil, plants and into the people that eat those plants
I have read on other forums the ink is all plant based dyes and safe for use in the garden.
I disagree, even the brown cardboard has been bleached and processed and should really only be used as a weed deterrent. like when laying a stone/woodchip path. IMHO.
Correct. All cardboard is a no no
@@thepervertedmonk2353 absolute nonsense
mou-uns? You mean moun-tains
There is no difference between the first cardboard box you shown and any of the others ALL of them are printed with the exact same Indirect NON FOOD GRADE ink which ingredients include items such as ammonia, dmea, paint thinner, anti foaming agents, and many other solvents, waterbased coating and lamination glue to adhere the paperboard sections together. NONE of it is safe to be ingested, and should never be used for your garden, I made the ink/coating for 15 years that went on that packaging. You are risking liability for telling the public to use a non food grade product in food consumption areas.
Your video is like that overly proccessed piece of cardboard: So much fluff, cartoons and time wasting presentation before getting to your actual point.
If your video is over two minutes in and you still haven't gotten to the main point, then you need to start editing your videos better. Structure them better and get to the point quicker. I understand adding a little flair to it, but be reasonable with it.
me thinks you need a hug 🤗