Cardboard Shredding, Shredding Cardboard
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tilling in shredded cardboard and newsprint.
Comments (7)Unless you had lots of manure to till in along with the paper it would not be good for your soil, or any plants, to till in that paper. Tilling paper into the soil would result in all available Nitrogen to be used by the soil bacteria to digest that high carbon material. Rather than shredding the paper you could lay it on the soil and cover it with shredded leaves, something you should have lots of in Pennsylvania, and that would help your soil and not hinder plant growth....See MoreCardboard Shredding, Shredding Cardboard
Comments (6)I'm not totally sure why you don't just recycle the cardboard. Your kitchen, trees, etc. should be able to give you as much compost as you need. Recycling is better for the planet as fewer trees will need to be cut down and less energy is used when recycling than logging. If you want to compost it, why not recycle it then buy tissue and paper towels made from recycled paper and use that as compost, this was the maximum value is squeezed from all the trees that are cut down to make paper....See Morebest use for shredded paper/cardboard?
Comments (6)I have been shredding ALL our household waste paper (bills, junk mail, newspaper, phone books, magazines, packaging, boxes, sacks, napkins, TP rolls, etc, etc, etc......) with a contraption I built as an "attachment" to my mulching lawn mower. As I am shredding, I have a chute blowing it into one of my compost bins. This fills up and I wet it down so it won't blow around. Then as I need carbon materials (I don't have any trees around to get leaves) I simply fork in the shredded paper material and mix it with the lawn clippings and other greens. It breaks down just as quickly as the other organic materials and creates a rich compost that has helped produce my last 3 years of amazing raised bed harvest of delicious veggies and beautiful flowers. No waste going to the landfill and I don't have to buy commercial fertilizer nor soil addatives....See MoreShredded cardboard for mulch
Comments (11)Earthworms, and other members of the Soil Food Web, like the soil conditions created when mulches are used, cool, moist soil, so any material used as a mulch will get them there. Shredded cardboard will work, but I am not sure that the extra labor involved in shredding cardboard is really worth the effort. I see very little difference in my soil if the cardboard is laid down unshredded or if I shred it, except I need more shredded cardboard to get the same results as with unshredded cardboard, and the shredded cardboard allows more "weed" growth then the unshredded cardboard does....See Morepjames
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