Use Cardboard Instead of Landscape Fabric + Planting Lisianthus! 🙌🌿🌍 // Garden Answer
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I’ve used this method with much success but the game changer was learning I could go to Sam’s Club and pull “slip sheets” for free- these are the 4x4 plain cardboard sheets that are found between layers of product on the myriad pallets found in the store. I wanted to share this with the GA family! No cutting down boxes and ripping tape off. I fold it in half and pile the cart high!
Excellent!!!
In your experience, do they have them in a big stack and ask for them?
Ahh! Great idea! Thanks for sharing! OMW
Can you get them at Costco, too?
Indeed! I worked in warehousing & distribution for a couple of decades. Those slip sheets are fantastic for a number of things!!
Who else is sitting here sipping coffee watching Laura plant all these plants? She's a beast in the garden not to mention being a momma. Wow just wow Laura you amaze us!
Me, in Georgia! Waiting for biscuits to be finished.
@@patsywilliams5570 now I’m hungry lol 😋
I'm doing exactly that, with half a cup left - Laura makes me miss my youth as I just can't jump up and down from the ground like I used to. LOL
Me, in Orlando, Florida.
@@camirichardson7485 same here.1 day gardening=2 days recovery 🫶
Paul & Bethany are work beasts !!!!
And all of their physical work shows, right?! Nice and trim.
They really are! Truly talented people. We all would love a Paul and Bethany. ❤
Can someone clone them lol love them!!’n
As someone who works at a plant that produces cardboard, using it for flower beds works great but I would never use it with vegetable or edible gardening. The chemicals that are used to produce the cardboard are toxic and not made for consumption. Keep that in mind also if you live on a well system that it eventually makes it's way into your drinking water.
Great advice about the chemicals used in the cardboard! Thanks!
This makes me sad. Did not know there were toxic chemicals in cardboard. I used it at the bottom of my raised bed veg garden 😬
@@user-lg6ki6ic5fI also used them at the bottom of my raised beds. My beds are 17” tall so hopefully the root systems won’t make their way all the way down there.
Thanks for that. Might affect wildlife, too. Do you know if brown paper bags are ‘chemicalized’?
@@jessicalatorraca8507 Yes they are
Have used cardboard and newspaper for years. Highly recommend it to anyone.
Is newspaper as effective?
Yes 👍
I want to do this but don’t slugs gather under the cardboard then eat the seedlings?
@@anitanvrk358I've never had that problem. They would have to get through the layers of cardboard and mulch first.
@@anitanvrk358 rolly pollies love tender seedlings too eat.
I’m on a 1/3 acre that’s a blank slate and I’ve done the cardboard method! I think it’s easy and is instant gratification to our space. 10-10 recommend!🙌🏼
Question if you will, When are you able to start planting flowers after putting down cardboard?
@@snickerspayne4929 I’ve planted right away and I’ve waited about a month I just cut out the cardboard where I wanted to plant. I hope that helps☺️
I’ve been gardening for 35 years, I wish I had known about using cardboard and compost to make new beds years ago! I used to double dig to work in soil amendments, sometimes using a rotor tiller. Before doing that I’d have to remove the sod! It was SO MUCH work! I love this no dig method!
Martha Stewart was my patron Saint in the '90s, and I remember her demonstrating the double-dig method. That lady never used shortcuts! 🤪
I always remove sod and dig...yes its hard but my space is small compared to GA - so each year I do a section attached time ❤🎉😊
The problem with removing sod (other than the time and labor) is the vegetation, top soil and roots are all removed, leaving only subsoil. By leaving the sod intact and covering with cardboard & mulch, you pretty much have good soil with valuable nutrients below that is ready to plant in someday, if you like.
QUESTION
Why does the print and color on the cardboard matter, when used in a bed where you don’t grow food?
I get that you wouldn’t want potential chemical dye in the soil for growing vegetables .
For for flowers and trees I wouldn’t think it mattered very much, unless one is very environmental conscious .
Many people do spray anyway, I’s the printed cardboard worse than weed killers ?
@@malina1239 online resources say that colored ink on cardboard, newpaper & other papers, may contain some toxic heavy metals. Even if food isn't being grown, these toxins can eventually find their way into our water. On the other hand, most American & European boxes are printed with non-toxic inks unless they are shiny. I don't remove tape or labels because they seem to work their way up to the surface where it is easy to pull it off.
I often put down cardboard, leftover straw from Halloween, shredded leaves and then compost to fill new raised beds. It's worked beautifully for me.
Laura, the cardboard method is a game changer 😊 I’ve also used brown paper grocery bags 2 to 3 layered on top of each other ,especially in my raised beds and it works beautifully , the paper bags break down by summers end ! 😊
As a Girl Scout leader of many years, if you are looking for free cardboard contact a local Girl Scout troop between January and March. They may be willing to save empty cases for you. My troop personally dumps tons of them. You can also reach out to local counsels to help you find one.
Loved and used this method since finding Charles Dowding on UA-cam 10 years ago! The worms GO CRAZY for cardboard😍
Yes! I was hoping someone would mention UK's Charles! He goes into why you do better not disturbing your soil structure. I thought I was just being lazy ( not wanting to cut sod) but it's actually the best for your soil's health. He doesn't even wait for cardboard to break down to plant. Just plants right in the thick layer of compost.
I'm just here to say that this is the first gardening video I found my husband watching over my shoulder at the start, he then proceeded to tell me how WE need THAT! I was so excited he finally sees gardening as the great thing it is....... Then he says 'with THAT dozer I'd be doing all kinds of cool stuff! But I could also use that 5 car garage, you know to store the dozer in!' 😐
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Sometimes do you just stand with your mouth hanging open in amazement of all Y’all have done !!! It’s incredible !!!🎉🎉
I have done this for years, newspaper and paper grocery bags also work great. This is nothing new been using this for years, I actually have cardboard on my walking paths as I type waiting to have rock placed!
I have been gardening for 40 years and this is a common method to use in Illinois. Have a great day everyone.
I live vicariously through y’all for the start of a lovely sunny gardening season 😆I’m in Scotland and we take a little longer to get going 🙄(wouldn’t be anywhere else though). You keep my spirits up for a sunny Summer 🎉😂❤
I have used this method for years and years as I have 100s of acreas of different gardens. It's the best
I started marigolds inside and this is the first time my seedlings were strong. Our walkway is lined with marigolds and all but 1 survived. So proud of myself. I cant wait til next year now lol
I love marigolds ❤
Laura, you and Aaron are what this country is really all about. I love when I see where you and Aaron are now I I think about Aaron saying how he had to sell his lap top to buy the house. So many sacrifices for where you are today once again I love your hard working attitude. I wish I had half.
Your neighbors really lucked out with you as a neighbor
You work so hard Laura. There should be a holiday for your efforts and to praise all hard working gardeners creating their color spots of beauty for our pollinators ❤❤❤
Lol, Well there is International Naked Gardening Day to celebrate gardeners. 😂
Cardboard IS the gardener's friend! (Especially when dealing with noxious weeds like Bishop's weed!)
It doesn't eradicate it (nothing does,) but it does knock it down enough to make it doable. I only wish I'd known about using cardboard 30 years ago! Looks beautiful!
Worms love decomposing cardboard - after all it was a wood tree once upon a time.
I love using cardboard to create gardens- it brings in the worms 🪱 too! ❤ Plus saves sore knees and ankles with arthritis
Charles Dowding a market gardener in the UK I think really is responsible for promoting this method n making it now so popular. His gardens are beautiful n so productive. Check him out! He has written many books as well. Nice man, so knowledgeable.
Douglas is back. Also thank you for supporting cardboard use. My neighbors think I’m weird.
I love the cardboard method. Since you first featured this in your videos, I have used it many times with great success around my yard and garden. I also put cardboard down around my vine crops to suppress the weeds and it works great! I work at a flower shop so I have access to nice large, heavy cardboard boxes that flowers are delivered in. I highly recommend this method.
I absolutely LOVE doing the cardboard method. I learned about it a few years ago, and since then it is the only way I make a new bed. Not only does it suppress grass and weeds, it holds moisture and attracts worms. My horrible clay soil (so bad you could make pottery out of it), actually improves in the cardboard and compost areas. I have one new bed that I just put it two weeks ago, and it looks great, and I am hoping to get another one cardboard and composted in the next few days. It was so wonderful to see that you use the same method in your gorgeous gardens. Thank you for showing us.
I reclaimed a chunk on our property this winter/spring with this method and now it is our flower cutting garden! The seeds and seedlings are thriving and the only weed that is coming through is bindweed and as we all know, not much is going to suppress that so were managing that manually as it pops up. Bonus when we ordered a new mattress and they left the box. Then I asked what other boxes they had in that delivery truck and they gave me a truckload!
I did the cardboard process a year ago to extend my flower beds in my small track home yard, and it turned out fantastic! You are right when you shared how much labor it saves. Fun to see it done on a larger scale!
Many years ago when we built our home; I used to get a gardening magazine called Garden Gate and that’s where I got this idea. You can also use 5 sheets of newspaper paper black and white ink only. It kills the grass and makes great nitro humus for the plants. Works amazing.
So happy that you're showing this method of using cardboard to block weeds. It works GREAT! Love all your videos with your cheerful enthusiasm and knack for accomplishing huge projects easily. You make anything possible.
Good morning, Laura ☕️I used the cardboard last year and it worked well! So much easier than pulling up the grass. That border is gorgeous! Paul & Bethany are amazing workers!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The cut flower garden is filling up nicely!😍Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈🐈
The cardboard method helps me so much. At 61 year old, it saves my back! The earthworms love it too!
Great to show this! I use 12 layers of newspaper overlapped, wet down and then covered with fine mulch in old flower beds. I have purchased rolls of newsprint for this. Also brown paper bags work well. Cardboard works best for grassy areas, but I do soak it down and sometimes put some landscape staples in it, then put fine mulch on top. I like to keep it wet for a couple of weeks because if it dries out a big windstorm can shift it around.
Good tips, thank you! ❤
I don’t know how I missed this cardboard trick to creating a flower bed. Thank you for GA and GA friends for sharing.😊
Moved into our first house, no landscaping on the property. Used cardboard and layed 6-8" of chopped leaves from a trash pile, gathered up old woodchips and lawn clippings.
Didnt have a truck, so I lined my Jetta's trunk with a tarp and hailed load after load 😂 it worked great!
Had a few cases where wiregrass came through where it was thin, and you'll still have to take a little hand hoe to strip out the violets that grow through but it's SO much easier! Highly recommend. Plant it up densely so you dont have to weed it except once in a rare while. The insect life and variety exploded :D
No questions today...just a thank you. You're truly an inspiration and an encouragement. I have been wanting to do this and I'm currently saving cardboard, but haven't done it yet as I too have been skeptical. You showing this gives me the push to just go for it!
Thank you!
We use grocery paper! It’s much thinner but we save up when we make groceries. We do not use it on this kind of a scale. We layer it just the same and we don’t worry about tape or staples or print since they are typically plain brown paper.
I’ve used the cardboard method several times with great success…another thrifty and effective route is newspaper for smaller areas. Again, no glossy or highly inked/colorful supplements, (just black & white newsprint) works great with about a 5-6 layer thickness. Of course wind is a factor with newspaper, but I wet it down right away which helps. Both the cardboard and newspaper methods are eco friendly, budget friendly and effective! Thanks for spreading the word Laura.
The cardboard method, game changer! Used it several times over the last couple of years to create flower beds and currently a bed around a new patio. I make sure minimal print on cardboard and as you said remove tape. I layered it with compost, soil conditioner and mulch. The bed I’ve had the longest contains Hibiscus, A climbing rose bush and several other perennials and is doing fantastic.
Lisianthus! I tried several attempts at starting from seedlings in January (inside of course). Out of 24 ended up with one! Slowest growing plant I have ever encountered. Patience is a Virtue I was not gifted with! The one however is looking fantastic since being potted outside about 2 months ago. Cannot wait to see it bloom. I will probably try again next year and now know what to expect.
Love watching Laura work. Her method is so efficient, organized and time saving. My kind of style. I sometimes get frustrated watching other gardeners who don’t have this skill and seem to waste so much time and work so unorganized. Must be the type A in me that gets triggered. 😆 But Laura, I could watch all day. ❤
In South Carolina, I remove the sod, put my chicken run compost full of weed seeds over the rock hard clay, then cardboard, then arborist woodchips. And it's still a fight to keep the Bermuda, crabgrass, and centipede down. In a couple of years it's beautiful to plant in though! I'm super glad this method works for some! So much easier.
I sheet mulched my entire back yard. It’s a good way to go.
I LOVE the music today!!!
Yes the cardboard method works well for sure! Reminder to people to not use the ones with the heavy labeling on them. Example: diaper boxes
Breaking down the boxes is a good project for kids to be involved in!
Good morning! The area that was just mulched over the grass look so nice. Such an easy way to kill off a large amount of grass and make it look fresh and clean too!
Good morning everyone! It looks so good! The cardboard under mulch is the best! Blessings 🙏🏻💞
I learned the cardboard method years ago from Eden garden. You can always add more on top later as it decomposes and add more mulch on top. The sod adds nitrogen back into the soil as it decomposes too. Love this method. Kudos to Paul and Bethany Bethany for their hard work!
I was always team “sod removal “, the last flower bed I created I did the cardboard method. So far, full success!
I have a Douglas kitty too!! Everyone that meets him thinks his name is so funny, glad to meet another one from the rare Douglas kitty tribe LOL. His full name is Douglas Lamar English lol. I got sidetracked, happens easily!
Back to your video...thank you for showing us how you did your cardboard. As you said, there are many others saying it works but seeing the lawn vs. woodchips vs. cardboard is really helpful for deciding which route I want to go. 😊
Thank you, Laura and team. Every moment is instructional. I love to start every morning watching GA and reruns on most Saturdays. Thank you to your entire family❤
I love using cardboard in my garden. It cuts down on weeds, tremendously, and worms love it once it has broken down. So when I shut the garden down for the winter (Zone 6a), I lay the cardboard down and cover with straw/hay, which also breaks down and feeds the soil. Although, I noticed this past winter that since our temperatures did not get too cold, some of the cardboard did not break down, which I took up and put into my compost bin. And these were only small pieces, like may seven total. All the Best to You!
Ist 4:30 pm , the most awaited time for me for these past 3 years 😂🫶
I loved the music behind this video- very 60’s vibe!
Love watching you Laura....you are such a a great teacher. ❤❤
Yes! I needed this! I have been saving cardboard for this reason! Thank you!
I really admire your beautiful gardens, and I'm so jealous at the wonderful variety you have. I have soooooo much trouble here with deer and groundhogs that my choices are limited if I don't want to do all that work just to provide them with breakfast, lunch, and supper. Sigh. Either way, you inspire to get out there and get 'er done!!
Everything is looking so nice in your gardens! ❤❤❤
I used this method 11 years ago at my parent’s house. So good.
Just what I needed for my garden! Thanks AGAIN Laura😍
I love, love, LOVE the cardboard & mulch method.
I did this 3 years ago, when I built my raised garden.... highly recommend
Great video with good information. Love the Lisianthus. Have a blessed day everyone.
I've been using cardboard for years. Works great! We use it in our garden after our first till. We plant, add the cardboard down the rows, and then add some straw. Game changer for us! There are a few weeds around the plants, but it saves us from tilling. By spring of next year, it's all broken down. Our soil remains great. Love this method! ❤ Love your channel!
Lisyanthus are my favourite. I look forward to seeing the beauty and hope to see you use them in floral arrangements.
I've been stashing cardboard for a flowerbed expansion project for the fall. Thank you for the refresher on this! Can't wait to get started!
I am really loving the new music you are putting in the videos. Who ever decided to change it was spot on. Great choices.
Wow! I wish I’d known this years ago. What a genius idea ❤
I just did the cardboard in our flowerbeds too. Super easy and so natural. Love it!
I am always amazed at how much the four of you accomplish with such a large space! It's awesome and absolutely beautiful!
I've used this method for the last few years. I absolutely love it! Thank you for sharing
This cardboard idea is becoming SO POPULAR!!! Thanks for showing us how its done. 🥰🥰😃 Liz from California
After I saw Paul do it the first time, I did this for a strawberry bed. Works great!
Thank you so much @ GardenAnswer for doing a lot of economical gardening.A lot of us are on flower budgets,so it’s great to see these ideas.Thanks again.Y’all are just the Best .
i remember my mother using the cardboard method.. tried and true! when i see more gardening beds being prepped i get excited because that means more and more videos!! your gardens are a busy place right now!!! 🥰❤thanks for the video!! 🥰❤
I absolutely love this no dig method and have used it to create many of my garden beds. This is best idea ever and since I do 95% of gardening myself, I will always use this process. I’m glad you are showing everyone because if we all do it, we can get our recycling on and keep the planet a little cleaner. Happy gardening everyone 🧑🌾!!
Thanks for all this great info, Laura!
Here in the U.K., my daughter used this technique on her allotment to clear weeds and make new beds and start growing fruit and veg. It’s brilliant! 🧡💚
I started using my cardboard last year after watching you use it. I was thrilled to use it in this way.
I asked this on a recent video, so I'm thankful to see the explanation here on how you do your beds. I have just as much of an issue with weedy seeds blowing in as growing through so I'm working on getting my paths and existing beds cleaner so there aren't as many weed seeds blowing around.
This is so helpful. Seeing that you’ve done this before makes me feel better about trying this myself…thank you!!
Just started following. My Mom has been watching for ages. When mom told me about this lovely lady growing flowers for nursing centers i subbed. ❤
Thanks Laura!🌱🌱🌱
Just finished covering my grass with this method last week. We have used this method a couple times. So worth it!
Thanks to you, we did the cardboard application. It worked beautifully. Thank you for all your advice!
I love this method ! I have been using it for years now and it is so easy to do and sustainable ! No more tearing out sod for me ! Your project is looking beautiful ! Congrats ! !
Works so well. We've done this for years.
Seen you doing it before the cardboard box and mulch perfect for me love it 💞
Putting cardboard down in our Zone 3A worked really well, when constructing a flower garden adjacent to a newly built seating area in the trees on our property! Have used this method for yrs....nice to see you implementing this method on your property!
I love the no till garden bed. So much easier and doesn’t disturb the underlying soil microbes, etc.
So glad to see you sharing this technique! I'm currently working on a presentation for regenerative farm and garden design and just covered this! No more plastic 'landscape' fabric.
What a great video. I enjoy the different styles of editing you’re using. The music is always perfect. Thank you for sharing your time.
Afternoon Everyone 🍃🌺🍃
Cardboard method makes gardening so much easier on us mature gardeners! I don’t have the physical strength to spread compost so I pile all my shredded leaves on top which makes it a little harder to keep wet and break down so I have to make sure it stays moist.
What a wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing.
We do it in our flower beds every few years to suppress weeds. Works great!
Awsome! I do the cardboard and compost/mulch all the time. It's a game changer for sure. I did a small amount of seed starting for the first time this year. I did it! They grew and are still alive, lol. Got trays of seedlings to plant out. I'm so excited. 😊 For sure seed starting will be a larger set up for next year. Been watching for a couple of years now. Have learned a thing or two. Thanks for all the tips and no non sense approach to the info on projects you all do. Have a lovely day! 😊💜🌺🦋🌻
I have a huge stack of newspapers since 2020. I am using that first but hardly anyone reads an actual paper these days so now I will add to my growing stash of cardboard using your most helpful hint. Thank you! and happy gardening😀
So excited getting this party started
I have used this method (and newspaper) for years at both my houses.
I saw you do this last year and tried it in an area I wanted to create a new bed. In the last few days I have used it again to widen parts of that bed and it has been very effective.