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Nov 2021
8:04pm, 18 Nov 2021
8,201 posts
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Eynsham Red
3M, you could always top it off by peeing in it!
A good thing about Christmas is the cardboard packaging that Amazon (other suppliers are available) parcels come it. We normally keep all the boxes in the garage and tear them up during the year to add a brown layer to the compost.
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Nov 2021
10:07pm, 18 Nov 2021
82,207 posts
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Hanneke
I do that too. I have a cardboard bin in stead of a garage 
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Nov 2021
10:39pm, 18 Nov 2021
16,637 posts
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MarkyMarkMark (3M)
Never a shortage of cardboard in my house, for some reason. For starters, most of the things I buy for the garden seem to come in cardboard boxes!
ER, I'm tall, but not that tall! Standing on steps to perform would probably upset the neighbours 😅 !
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Nov 2021
10:45pm, 18 Nov 2021
54,996 posts
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Velociraptor
My garden borders are currently buried under cardboard, bark chippings, and plants in pots (most of the pots are my dad's cast-offs). I've got another stack of flattened boxes building up for the next border I deal with. Work is a good source.
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Nov 2021
10:07pm, 19 Nov 2021
21,416 posts
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Columba
I do the flattened cardboard box as weed suppressant thing. With black fabric on top of it, and bark chippings on top of that. I suspect the black fabric is redundant.
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Nov 2021
9:46am, 20 Nov 2021
82,222 posts
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Hanneke
The plastic black fabric it redundant and ultimately a pain, as you don't want that disintegrating into your soil and roots getting tangled into it. I spend an exorbitant amount of time sorting the weed suppressing membrane issues in new gardens where I revamp the planting.
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Nov 2021
10:04am, 20 Nov 2021
55,013 posts
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Velociraptor
I pulled up old bedsheets from under the weed layer in my garden, as well as more conventional membrane materials.
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Nov 2021
10:09am, 20 Nov 2021
82,224 posts
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Hanneke
Good on you for getting rid of that!
Bike boxes and compost mulches are the way forwards. By the time the bike box has rotted away, it will have killed 95% of weeds underneath. Only mares tail seems to survive for that long in the dark...
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Nov 2021
10:51am, 20 Nov 2021
8,207 posts
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Eynsham Red
At the no dig smallholding where I volunteer we still use the fabric membrain but only under the pathways between the raised beds. Although there is a deep layer of bark chippings on the pathways, it doesn’t stop the thistles and nettles growing through. So much time was spent weeding the pathways that Paul (the owner) felt that weeding them was an inefficient use of the few volunteers time.
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Nov 2021
12:21pm, 20 Nov 2021
82,227 posts
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Hanneke
You can use cardboard and woodchip on the paths too...
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