HELP #GarbageCrisis. How to Start a Vegetable Garden Series for Beginners with Cardboard Part 1
Recycle materials going to landfill. Gardening with cardboard.
Link to ViCE NEWS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK20t11He14
See Part 2 at :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocWSUbfmng0 .
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Glad to see a new video. We missed ya Mark. I like how you try all sorts of things. Ie. The cardboard. Looking forward to the year of your analytical opinion on the cardboard. A couple of years back I stumbled upon your leaf video. You are so right, they are gold. I was able to have delivered 250 tons of them. Lots of work but the results speak for itself. This year I am trying to double that. Yes 500 tons. Not to mention I was able to get 120 or more tons of wood chips this summer. Ok enough rambling on. Thanks for always posting good content. Wayne,shineyshovelacres pocomoke md.
How long is each pipe hoop that is used?
Glad to see you are back. Hope all is well.
Missed you. Thanks for another interesting video.
I actually just watched that video yesterday lol. I always use cardboard when starting new areas. Hoop house looks good
Hello, Mark! Cardboard rules! The best worm-food /weed-suppressor ever :-)) Thanks
Interesting.. Thank you so much..
Every YouTube channel I watch uses low tunnels. I hope you took the tape off of those boxes.
This is great. I always cover the ground with cardboard and paper before I put chips down.
Really helps hold in the moisture, help fungal growth and the worms love it.
I like this idea to. Great way to keep the weeds down
Mark,
Glad to see you back posting again. I'm looking forward to the next year worth of videos.
Good to see you back! Looking forward to the new series!
Welcome back Mark. I hope you had a bountiful and profitable harvest this summer. I had some hits and misses like always, and I love the journey of growing soil.
We're killing the planet….
I'm extremely surprised that a you tube channel named "I am organic Gardening" has never used cardboard in the garden before. I feel like it's a fundamental aspect of organic gardening and bed prep.
Both Serina and I have been sessioning your videos, her especially. I get to watch youtube when Im cleaning the kitchen but the rest of the time Im busy with kids or construction, lol. Just want to say thanks, we are learning lots from your content that we hope to put into action next year.
Ian
Fantastic news! How did u know I was searching for ideas for a small plant shelter? I'm delighted to see this. How do u secure the pvc through the wood? Is it just held in place by tension alone? Thanks, eagerly waiting for next installment of series! As always great quality!
By the way, I tweeted out to YouTube as u had suggested a couple weeks ago.
China no longer accepts most plastic recycling now, especially styrofoam and plastic bags…these materials will now be land filled or like here in Baltimore taken to the city incinerator for burning. Unfortunately the side effect of burning plastics is dioxin which is the worlds worst pollutant and cancer causing agent known to mammals…
I am looking forward to learning from your new venture. Regards.
Cardboard and paper are not organic! They are made with noumerous amounts of chemicals and antibiotics.
The ink contains heavy metals and mineral oils, recycled cardboard and paper even more! Through the recycling process we accumulate all those toxins in the paper and cardboard.
If you throw this onto your soil or compost you will get contamination in your garden that might end up in your plants.
I dont consider gardeners using it organic at all.
Hi Mark! I've missed you! Thanks for the update and the new videos coming our way. I got serious about using cardboard a couple years ago and I love how it really does keep the weeds at bay while I build up the chips/straw on top. I love your hoop design. I've promised my daughter to help her get a bed going that keeps squirrels out….maybe? Looks promising!
Best hoop structure. Search "texasprepper2 greenhouse" . Uses a cattle plannel (tractor supply of any farm supply.,)Thousands of these have been built across the US.=It works…
That is a terrific hoop house. I just dug (scooped) my potatoes out of my cardboard boxes and I call it a success! I got 20 plus pounds out of the ground by placing the boxes with good soil and this was just the last 2 boxes. I planted 30 or more hills in the ground and amended the soil and didn't get 5 pounds. Thanks Mark! Everyone has been impressed with this method.
I love this hoop house, it is something I can do myself as I am not great at building anything.
I have used cardboard under all of the raised beds that I have started. I put a layer of manure down on the grass, then newspaper, then cardboard. Placed my raised bed frames and fill with soil mix. It has been working very well for me. I continue to use cardboard to suppress the grass coming into the garden area, we have Bermuda that always tries to find a way in!
I have always tried to recycle everything I can. Since seeing that news video I have been working on how I can reduce what I buy that has packaging. It's difficult but worth it. Check out USA Love list they give tons of info on USA made products, they also list US companies that utilize recycled materials!
Great to see you back! Always love your video's!
Glad to see youre making more videos. I was a little reluctant to use cardboard at first but I read some research on how composting actually binds whatever toxins are present in the cardboard. So Ive been using it now for over 8 years and my worms , rolly pollies and milipedes seem to love it. Love your videos.
I do this. I areate the soil with a pitchfork first, then lay down some compost to draw the worms up. Cardboard goes next. Check out my short how to video sometime!
Definitely doing this. Awesome stuff here. You solved my cabbage worm problem. The cheapest yet. And does look nice. Thank you have an awesome day
Hi Mark, nice to see you started another informative sequence. Growing our own veggies reduces the amounts of waste plastic we have to shed. I'm reluctant to use PVC tubes, because incinerating them will produce Dioxine. Some types of tubes do not go well with ag plastic, several channels showed taping the tubes before putting the ag plastic on top. I finally convinced my wife to mulch her bare soil ornamental garden, she uses all the chippings, so I had to find another carbon source for composting the kitchen and garden waste: cardboard and non glossy paper. About cardboard: in order to contain within the very wide mesh surrounded hugel I made for buxus rootballs I used double folded Ikea cardboard, it was consumed in one year, the replacing heavy duty tellie CRT box is almost gone after 2 years. I also ran 3 tests with tomatoes, original not enhanced crappy sandy soil resulted in blossom end rot, 40 percent compost and pure compost did well without that problem, adding crushed egg shells seem to have solved that problem. Best wishes from Holland, I hope the rain did not overwhelm your multi soil generating strategies on top of heavy clay.
So you just water the cardboard? Wouldnt this cause mold and dampening off?