Do you hate waste, but love online shopping? Of course, we recommend shopping locally whenever possible, but on the occasion when all that packaging that comes through our doors, what can we do with it all?! Bubble wrap, polystyrene and cardboard boxes can be a nuisance to recycle. Fear not! Ben has lots of clever suggestions for how to reuse your packaging in your garden so that none of it goes to waste.
Here at Grow Veg, we don’t endorse Amazon, but love them or loathe them, packaging is everywhere. If you’re not an online shopper yourself, why not ask your neighbours for their unwanted packaging- let’s reuse this in the garden and give something back to the Earth, quite literally!
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How to Make a Compost Bin from Pallets
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Supercharge Your Compost Heap
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Whether you love or loathe Amazon, there's a huge amount of packaging being delivered to homes these days. Even if you don't receive packages, other people near you probably do. Which of my tips for reusing packaging do you like the best? Are there any other ways you've used packaging in your own garden? Please share them below!
Great video! Love all the helpful tips!
EXCELLENT info… Just found your channel this am.. already have been laying cardboard down all over the garden.. But, you added sooo much more useful info.. Will do, as well.. Thank you!!!
I like the lacewing hotel, but would they use a green bottle, or does it have to be transparent? I have green bottles left over, and think they might also look better in the garden too?
Excellent sharing
DO NOT USE CARDBOARD USED TO HOLD FOOD until you have fully researched forever chemicals in cardboard.
Great ideas for up cycling or repurposing packaging material. Thank u for sharing these tips. ❤
I used to get leaves from neighbors but with curbside recycling, they don’t want to be bothered, even if I offer to bring my bin so I can take it and use it in my yard. Their rationale is that it is being composted anyway. Sure, but you have city trucks having to pick up the bins, haul it to the center and then individuals will add more fossil fuel to go drive across town to get it. It’s as if people are afraid you will benefit from their refuse. I used to used newspaper for weed barrier as well along with mulch 30 years ago before cardboard boxes were common.
Thanks for your video. Love the idea of reusing these cardboard for garden purposes. Although I’m from Thailand, which there is no winter, I got lots of new ideas. We have a land that we just plants some mango trees and we partially used all these cardboard boxes ( that we got from online shopping) on the ground to prevent all those weeds. Thanks. Just subscribed.
Great production and ideas
Should I burst the bubbles before using the bubble wrap?
I live in Sweden where it is very cold during winter. I have a balcony which is glass covered. but it is very cold inside during this time. I would like to make this balcony my kitchen garden as I can understand I can use it as a green house. If I use popping bubble wrap can I make it enough insulated for growing plants inside? Could you please suggest which vegetables can I grow in this kind of weather? Not to mention, Sweden is often gloomy during this time.
Cockroaches love that stuff too…
Hats off to you my good man. Your cardboard hack saved me a trip to the local recycling depot. I had resigned myself to a trip to rid us of a huge cardboard box we received with the purchase of our now 9 year olds trampoline. I now also score brownie points with our son for employing the, reduce, reuse and recycle method. Cheers!
Awesome video!!! This is so creative
I’ve burnt a lot of wood and cardboard. Is there any practical use for all the ashes?
The "biodegradable tape" on those boxes contains a nylon insert to keep it strong. I don't recommend putting that in your garden.
I'm wondering if the ink on cardboard boxes is safe, or is it just adding toxins to your soil?
You unwittingly gave another 'hack'! My boxcutter has made a mess on my garden bench and the cardboard i put down is not up to the task. An old cutting board certainly would help! I'm off to the basement where a particularly ugly board was stored 'in case'.
This is so good to know. I’m a new garden who adopted my garden from a once avid gardener who was in the house 60 years. Due to old age it was overgrown which I worked through my first year, now I’m uncovering some of her artistry. However the amount of styrofoam is exhausting at times!
Too many adverts for me!
Some great ideas I didn't know about… Love repurposing
We do a fair bit of juicing and the pulp goes nuclear quickly. You can actually feel the heat generated in a plastic bag within a few hours. How can I maximize this green gold ? Just mix it with finely mulched dry oak leaves?
Glad you mentioned the lacewing homes