TRUTH About Using Cardboard in Garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- There are many concerns about using cardboard and paper in garden and I am going to the bottom of the issue to get to the truth. Concerns are related to chemical glue used in cardboard, chemical ink, staples, insecticides, and plastic tape. All of these concerns are valid, so lets dive deep and address each one of these concerns in this video.
#Gardening #Cardboard #daisycreekfarms
00:00 Intro
00:05 Concerns about Chemicals in Cardboard
00:45 Glue in Cardboard Box
01:58 Staples on Seams
02:04 Plastic Tape on Cardboard Boxes
02:21 Labels on Cardboard Boxes
02:54 Ink on Cardboard and Paper
04:07 Insecticides in Cardboard Boxes
04:31 Bleached Paper
05:05 Outro
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A+ to you for making a concise and informative video that gets right to the important points.
With all the chemtrailing and spraying, chemicals in the cardboard, etc., is/are the very least of our worries.
I've always used cardboard when I start new garden beds. Whether raised or in ground there is always a layer or two of cardboard on the bottom. Plastic and labels get peeled off and that's about it. As far as paper, I shred everything that is not colored and glossy and it goes into the the compost pile. We all want to garden organically in healthy soil but based on many of the comments in this video, we have a tendency to overthink every piece of paper.
I suppose now I worry more about pesticides in manure than I do about glue in cardboard.
He essentially said the same. Just take off the glossy, bleached, heavily glued and stapled parts and you have brown cardboard, perfectly usable.
Thank you🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ for clarifying what parts to discard or refrain from using and which parts are ok and safe to use. NOW I am more confident because I trust you to tell us the truth of what to use & how to use the safe parts. May GOD bless you for being honest!
This is the first I have heard about the second type of (chemicals) glue along the seams of the box. And the first I have heard that the glue between the layers is starch-based and therefore safe. Thank you for this. The other theoretical worry is that cardboard made from recycled cardboard may have small amounts of all the bad things we don't want (from old plastic labels, type, colored ink etc)
Perfect timing! Thank you for providing details and visuals 👌
Thanks, Jag. Very helpful! Very much enjoy your postings.
I would also like to add that anything that is waterproof typically contains pfas which is also known as forever chemicals that do not break down in our environment and can very well be leached into your gardening soil very easily. STAY AWAY FROM ANYTHING NON STICK AND WATERPROOF PERIOD! Love this video! Thank you sharing and educating!
*Love the planet you inhabit ☺️🌍
True! Thanks for the comment!
Yes, ty...& I love your little rhyme!
Yep… good advice
Thank you Jag Singh! You have made me a smarter person. *You are one amazing man!*
I gave up using shredded newspaper years ago; not because of any concerns about toxic inks but because newspaper tends to compact when wet and excludes the air needed to compost properly.
Always a favorite to watch. So well explained, thank you!!
Thank you for sharing this info, man! God bless you!
THANK YOU!!! I had given up trying to find information on this.
I had been shredding used white paper and adding it to my compost! I had no idea it was bleached!! Thank you🙌🏽
Excellent info! Mahalo nui loa for sharing this valuable information!! Happy & Safe Holidays to you all!
Thank you for all of your beneficial organic gardening advice. I especially like that you have revived the simple methods for a productive garden from your Great Grandfather. Absolutely priceless! I thoroughly enjoy each and every video.😊
Glad you like the videos :)
Thank You! Verry informative!
Thank you for the thorough explanation. I was getting incomplete answers from Google
Good Information ! Thank you for sharing with us
Thank you so much for this knowledge. Amen
Thank you for this information, I appreciate it!
Thanks for this breakdown! Another concern I have heard is whether some kinds of cardboard contains PFOAs. Particularly, color printed cardboard.
very helpful. thanks, jag!
Thanks Jag. Great video and I wish you well.
Good clarification. Didn’t realize the corners were an issue.
Thank you!
Thank you so much!
great video, very descriptive. thank you!
This is good! I use only brown cardboard, remove all tape and 90% of the labels, as well as any staples. I have been leaving the corner glue, but will re-think that. I'm mostly using cardboard for weed suppression. I'll have to watch more of your videos! Thanks.
Very helpful. Thank you
Thank you so much for this!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Great video. Thank you
Thank you so much for a very informative video!
Wow, I didn't know that there was so muc so know and to look for when using cardboard for your garden! 😯
Thank you very much, this was extremely interesting! 😊👍
Very helpful information. Thank you!
thank you so much for this video. I guess I need to start cutting off the section of the box where it is glues together. I just started using cardboard so this video was very helpful.
Fabulous video! Have shared on several Facebook sites.
Informative video by the way thank you.
Thanks for sharing your time with us ❤️ great information 💞
Cheers from 2 Canadians 🇨🇦 living in Mexico 🇲🇽🥰✌️
Thanks for watching!
Thanks
Thank you for the insight.😎👍
Thank You, u answered several of my questions👵🏻😻
I'm trying to get past my concern over chemicals which might be present in cardbord in my garden, you video made me feel a bit more at ease about it, thanks 🙂
Good to know, thank you.
Great video. I also stsy away from cardboqrd that contained cloth textles from couches/ home decor to clothing. Depending upon where the ckoyh came from and traveled through, a lot of chemicals are not only allowed but required.
Thanks! Won't consider using my shredded paper in my garden. Appreciate all you do!
Good to know ❤thanks
Thank you so much for this information! I never thought about the glue
Excellent information
Thanks 👍👍
Thank you, Jag! I tried calling manufacturers of products to find out if their boxes were compostable. Now I know.... thanks to you and David the Good. 😀
😢 (The manufacturers didn't know!)
Great information, thanks for sharing.
What are you thoughts on file folders, those slightly tannish color folders that your store legal papers in
Thank you! I've just started using cardboard in my flower beds and your video affirmed I'm doing it right!
Wonderful!
Hi Jag that’s very good information to you and your family Happy holidays enjoy bye.
Great information
This is so helpful
Excellent.
I bought a 18 sheet paper shredder I shred brown cardboard and use it as mulch. So far it’s working great.
Great idea!!
Awesome! A lot of what people try to accomplish with cardboard is 'Sheet Mulching,' which can dramatically reduce the amount of moisture loss from the soil (water needed for irrigation). Shredded mulch also does this to some degree, but not nearly as well as carpet/sheet mulching. The problem is that it can look rather unsightly having sheets of cardboard laying all over the place, so folks then try to put soil on top of the cardboard or even regular mulch. If you want it to look nicer or if you're in an area that is fairly damp then it makes sense to shred the cardboard. If you are on the ranch, farm, or otherwise out of sight then leaving sheet of cardboard on the ground is not so bad. Quite often various projects come to pass that will create opportunities to put stuff on top of the cardboard over time.
@@demetriromanov9816 I tried sheet mulching cardboard, didn't work very well for me since it gets windy and blows the sheets.
Why not just mulch plastic in? Or motor oil?
@@terrykellyphotography6171 I bought 'garden staples' , I punch them through the cardboard and use them to hold it down in windy conditions. Rocks work as well. There is no 'stapler' needed for these staples, hands only.
Thank you. I have been using cardboard in my garden but never thought about these things.
Staples are steel, thus are primarily iron. Soil here where I live is acidic and will break down ferrous metals fast. I’ve seen metals listed on safety data sheets used in inks for labels, but you’ve got metals naturally occurring in the garden’s soil much of the time. I’d be more concerned with pesticides from neighboring properties. Then again, I’d only use cardboard for non-food landscaping.
I would be concerns about getting a staple in my hand while gardening since I normally put my hands in soil, that would be the primary concern.
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Got it. I often wear gloves because my hands are dry, cracked. Stains are like tattoos.
Sharp objects in the soil, small or large, put we gardeners at risk. One such risk is tetanus. The bacterium that causes tetanus is called Clostridium tetani. The bacterium can survive in a dormant state in soil and animal feces. It's essentially shut down until it discovers a place to thrive.Cuts or wounds exposed to soil or manure
A foreign body in a wound, such as a nail or splinter. If you're up to date on your tetanus shots (every 10 years) good. If not, be careful.
Great video! I'm assuming the brown paperish tape on Amazon boxes is okay??
The best thing I have found is brown pizza boxes that I use on the path of my gardens to keep the weeds down. TP rolls go in the compost. Anything I question, I don’t use.
Thanks, very helpful breakdown. We have a wood burner at home and I put the ash on my compost. Should I follow the same rules for cardboard/paper or will the fire get rid of the toxic chemicals?
Well-burnt ash no longer has any significant amounts of organic material left. Therefore small amounts of organic toxins can be rendered harmless in your burner. The ashes are the inorganic substances that cannot be burned and are therefore left over. Unfortunately, heavy metals belong to the inorganic substances and therefore become part of the ash.
this is so helpful! I had heard that newspaper uses all natural ink (like the colored grocery store ads) so I regularly use them in the garden...I also shred all my bills (white paper). I guess I need to rethink things. Thank you!!
Yes, the newspaper does use ink that is vegetable dye ink , however the white paper is bleached. I personally wouldn't use newspaper in the garden and send it back for recycling.
GOOD GRIEF!! I've been shredding up my white paper bills for the compost pile all this time. I guess us old birds CAN benefit from learning some new things. Thanks Jag.
I would add that the biggest problem with bleached paper is highly toxic dioxins. This was a major problem when chlorine gas was used to bleach paper pulp. In the modern world, chlorine gas is no longer used. This includes the US and EU. Today there are two methods in use, ECF - Elementary Chlorine Free (free from chlorine gas), and TCF - Totally Chlorine Free. ECF uses chlorine substances but does not cause these toxic dioxins that chlorine gas does. In most cases, therefore, you don't need to worry about composting white paper, as long as you know where the paper comes from. However, there are countries where chlorine gas is still used today.
I saw in another video that cardboard can attract & make a perfect environment for termites to thrive in also. I now only compost boxes (good ways away from the house) and occasionally toss some in the cementer of my garden tower for the worms.
Thanks so much for making these videos & helping people learn gardening skills in such a clear and concise format! Looking forward to subscribing & watching more!
In my country these can be sold for recycling to the trash buyers
We are planning on renovating our front yard in summer of 2023. Instead of buying weed fabric, my wife and I are collecting cardboard boxes from our work. We are removing all tape and as much of the labels as we can. However, if it’s a pain to remove some of the labels we are leaving it on there. Since we are not using it on our garden beds that grow vegetables and it’s just to help kill the grass we are not being too picky. The plan is to cut the grass as far down as possible, cover it with 1-2 layers of cardboard boxes and then laying 3-4 inches of Woodchips from a local arborist on top of the cardboard. I feel that with landscaping the rules don’t have to be so strict. While there is still the risk of polluting the soil of my yard, I do feel that nature will take it’s course and work things through over the years. Thank you for the peace-of-mind video though, Jag! Colorado, USA
HI Jordan, Hose the cardboard down with water and remove the labels next day.
Good call! We will do that to get rid of of the sticky labels.
If you can't get the tape off after a few weeks it just peels off.
Thanks...very helpful. What about cardboard egg cartons...are they ok to use?
Good day mate .
What about newspaper.
Should I cover the cardboard with garden mesh before putting mulch?? Very concern to know. Thank you
I find that after a month or two, I can just reach down and pick up the tape and labels.
Would it be OK to compost the car boxes that frozen dinner comes in?
I have a bunch of packing paper that is about to go into use in my garden. It isn't as brown as brown paper bags, but is also a lot darker than bleached white paper.
Should be ok as long as it is not glossy or has lots of ink.
Fortunately my work gets shipments that have plain sheets of cardboard layered between cabinet parts which have no labels or glue seams at all.
Thanks!! 6 months in. I just noticed... Some cardboard is turning into an Anaerobic Barrier! while other cardboard is degrading as it should!!
Boxes that contained bicycles are not degrading in my garden, they followed the rules you outlined, but they turned into kind of...slightly oily feeling layer of compacted cardboard.
@@EvolutionWendy I've never had cardboard that did not decompose so am not sure about the bicycle boxes. But one of the things I do is completely wet down the cardboard, both top and bottom before covering with other materials, especially if I am using a double layer. Almost always the following year, often sooner, the cardboard is gone.
I wonder if this cardboard has pesticide treatment or has a waxed layer to prevent degradation.
Secret source: big box clubs, have something called slips. Those are the cardboard pieces to go between materials and pallets. They are wonderful for the garden no tape, no ink no clue most of the time.
Yes! Thanks for pointing this out! I use them a lot!
So, it's safe if you won't be eating from the plant (after you pick the right box)?
What do you think about RamBoard. I looked into the ingredients and it looks like none of them are toxic. Please give me your opinion. Thanks. Great video!
Can you you use the grocery ads that come in your mail or are in your grocery store?Although the paper is not glossy it does have colored ink.
What about egg cartons that have the sticker on the carton lid?
Great video..what do you have to say about newspaper?..thank you
Although the ink on newspaper is vegetable dye, newspapers are bleached, so I would said do not use them in your garden.
Cardboard boxes may contain insecticide, items shipped via containers are pretty much always doused with insecticide in order to prevent translocation of pest species, which is why containers are opened and vented well before anyone goes in to unload them.
Do banana boxes contain residues of insecticides/herbicides sprayed onto the banana plants ?
Does anyone know if moving paper that you use to wrap glass is damage to use? It’s brown, but it has a waxy sheen. I have tons of it from moving recently and I wanted to prepare the earth for some in-ground planting.
What about grocery ads? They are colorful ink.
I live in the desert and I’m just looking for “brown” for my compost since I don’t have leaves to add
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😵I wish I would have seen this video sooner!!! I've shredded lots of white "mail" along with brown cardboard because of videos & other places saying it's OK to use just not the plastic windows in the envelope!! Thank you so much for clearing this up so we can have healthy and truly safe gardens!!! God bless you and Merry Christmas!!
If you spray your cardboard with water, the tape and labels peel off so much easier.
Are the inks on food boxes safe to use?
Great video Jag!! I have a question,how can we say an ink is from vegetable dyes or not, cause i use many receipts i get from buying stuff in my compost.
Just a note - many receipts now are thermal paper containing BPS & BPA - toxic to humans. No ink is used but the chemicals are toxic. I avoid them.
I have read that receipt paper contains BPA and/ or other chemicals
Wow, thanks! I always wondered about this. I know people use cardboard in their gardens for weed control. Are there any other benefits to using cardboard in the garden?
The worms love it! Putting uncolored cardborad over the garden beds as cover over the winter, there will be hundreds of worms under it in the summer.
The cardboard will decompose before late spring, if you dump leaves ontop in the winter, even better worm food.
It breaks down into healthy, fluffy soil
Yes, Well said @TheSeeker worms love cardboard
You might like to search TH-cam for Charles Dowding's gardening videos. He also has books on TH-cam. He promotes "no dig" style gardening. Every bed he creates always starts with a layer or so of cardboard topped with compost. No dig a form of permaculture that is truly good for the Earth - sequesters carbon, protects soil ecosystems, avoids damage to essential mycelium networks, uses no chemicals, mimics nature... I could go on and on! I'm very excited to try it next year at my new place!!
The staples last maybe 1-2 seasons and do zero damage (might even have a positive effect depending on your soil)... the glue breaks down into its natural minerals in no time.. I do remove the plastic when I use cardboard though.
The staples may be anodized or alloys of iron & other metals, but usually don't contain heavy metals which would be an obvious concern
None glossy Newspaper with colored inks? is it OK to use in place of cardboard? Thanks
Yes, the newspaper does use ink that is vegetable dye ink , however the white paper is bleached. I personally wouldn't use newspaper in the garden and send it back for recycling.
Excellent! Also, good ole brown cardboard invites cockroach and mice onto the farm. Keeps the chickens busy anyway
That was so helpful thank you. How do I know re cardboard for getting rid of white ants in garden. I had 168kg of white ants removed from house. But still have them in garden...
White ants = termites?
The biggest new info I learned from the video is white paper has a carcinogen dioxin. That’s crazy. I’ve seen tons of videos of people shredding white paper for vermicomposting. I’ll definitely have to read up on the chemicals in making white paper cause if that’s true what you’re saying that’s crazy!!! Like no one talks about that at all. And I’ve spent like four years watching videos on composting and vermicomposting and I actually do vermicomposting. Wow like this video is shocking.
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The one site I shared this to has had 28n likes and 14 shares today; it has been up about 6 hours. Thought you might like to know who popular this video is! Several hours later: 71 responses and 17n shares. You are a hit!
Wow! Thank you for sharing! this helps a lot! :)
@@DaisyCreekFarms It really getting likes and shares--probably over 100 likes by now!
One more..., the cardboxes used wax (to transport meats and fresh produce). Our town doesn't even accept that as recycling
Will using cardboard for weed control under weed cloth draw insects?