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[Karen Tillou <arboretum@homeorchardsociety.org>]

the best cardboard sources are usually retailers who receive large things:  

auto body repair shops, fabric stores, piano shops (the biggest sheets of cardboard ever!!!), appliance stores

cruise your town, talk to shop owners - you'll find some good places if you keep your eyes open, especially if your municipality has cardboard specific recycling dumpsters.

proper name for this kind of mulching:  sheet mulching.

karen

oregon city, OR - zone 8a and wet

On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:

   I sometimes wish NAFEX had a light-bulb symbol for bright, new ideas.  I
think Diane Porter just gave us one.  She mentioned putting cardboard atop
the soil, under the mulch.  A 6" layer of mulch will prevent annual weeds
from growing but will do nothing to prevent perennial weeds from coming up;
her cardboard should accomplish that task.  Is it possible that the
perennial weeds come up, can't penetrate the cardboard and eventually
(within a season?) die and rot?
   I have always fallowed my soil for a season, spraying with Round Up, let
it grow, till, spray again, repeat, etc.  Next time I need to open new
ground, I'll use Diane's method..................now where can I get enough
cardboard?

Diane said, "We thought we'd get a truckload of composted cow manure to
spread thickly on the ground, then cover with cardboard, mulch heavily with
straw, and plant the raspberries in holes cut though the cardboard."


Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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