Thick cardboard, similar negative effects as fabric?
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Cardboard to cover the garden?
Comments (8)I'm sorry but I have to disagree about cardboard not working as well as paper bags and newsprint. I have been using newspaper and paperbags in my garden for years. I've been using the cardboard for the past 3 and I have not found one to work better than another. I do prefer the paperbags and cardboard over newspaper though. Cardboard is great for covering large areas quickly and paperbags are great for getting around the different plants. I find them to be easier to work with and if the mulch does come off in spots, it isn't as unsightly as newspapers can be. In my experience, all 3 materials break down in about a year. I have some pretty tough weeds in my yard, bermuda grass, either wild onions or garlic (haven't been able to identify for sure, my luck I have both! lol) and nutsedge. In all the areas that I've created beds using paper of some sort to surpress these weeds, I am nearly free of them. The bermuda grass is still a little iffy in spots. Now the only weeds I contend with are those that blow in. Which by the way usually pull up very, very easily. I guess the soil has improved enough that the roots aren't all bound up in my heavy clay soil. I do think timing of putting down the paper and mulch is important though. For instance my onion/garlic problem; I've noticed the beds that I allowed that particular weed to come up in and THEN put down the paper and mulch are for the most part free and clear. I started a new bed this past spring. It is filled with wild onion/garlic at the moment. I plan on doing my cardboard/mulch thing in December and my hope is that I will be free of this particualr weed for the most part by next fall. I'm sorry your husband doesn't trust the natural process of things and couldn't bring himself to eat tomatoes growing in compost! Poor man really missed out I am sure! Keep at it and maybe you'll be able to convert him;) PS. Birdlady, LOVE your garden photo....See MoreMay I see pictures of your undermount sinks with negative reveal
Comments (29)A negative reveal might be better for hiding imperfections in a handmade sink, like the Shaw's farm sink. If your top lip is especially wavy, or slanted (as mine is), then a negative reveal will hide that better. (But lots of people have Shaw's with postivie reveals. Mine is too wonky.) Regarding negative vs zero reveal, with a zero reveal, one will see the caulk, right? So that may or may not be an issue for someone. I prefer not to see the caulk, so I prefer even a tiny negative reveal (like 1/16th-1/8th). Regarding the question about why an undermount sink has to sit lower than the counter. The easiest answer is because that is the definition of "undermount." :-) There is also an "upmount" style where it sits above the counter. And there is a "flushmount" where the counter and sink are on the same level. But some of these styles can probably only be done with a farm style sink that sits on a base, and needs no support from above. Francy...See MoreUsing cardboard instead of mulch
Comments (35)If I may, I would urge you to reconsider Norway maple. A bad invasive thug in N. America, I'm afraid. One or two of your other ideas may be less winter-hardy than your locale requires, but no harm in trying. But Norway maple escapes from cultivation via seeds, and into the woods it goes, crowding out native tree types. That's not hypothesis....this is really happening in places like New England, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. No reason why the same would not happen down by you....See Moreplastic/cardboard over garden to prevent weeds = fungus?
Comments (12)thanks for your replies. cover crops are not an option, this idea if for lawn customers who I also do gardening etc for. I want a quick simple solution like putting plastic over it because it becomes a nightmare in spring with winter weeds. I don't even want to till it. I can't be bothered with this in Spring time. No preemergents are to be used in these beds either. come to think of it, don't farms use like rows of black plastic and make long mounds, or is that plastic breathable? Also under rock/river rock landscape beds with trees and shrubs, usually under rock gardens is impermeable plastic sheeting but the plants do fine as long as the plastic isn't ran close to the trunk of the plants. I don't think it would be detrimental to put impermeable plastic over it but I'm not sure. Also something like newspapers or putting leaf mulch over it is another thing I don't want to even deal with in early Spring having to remove it so they can plant etc. If I put cardboard, it would be to be removed in spring before planting, but plastic seems easier and I don't really want to go finding cardboard fridge boxes for these gardens, I'll just tell them put plastic over it and rocks on the corners to hold it and remove to plant in spring....See MoreUser
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