Make Your Yard WEED FREE All Season Using Recycled Trash!
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- In this video, I share a brilliant way to have a weed free yard for an entire year! By using cardboard in the garden correctly, you can make your own free weed barrier that will suppress weeds, feed soil, bring in worms and make your fruit trees very happy while reducing trash by recycling cardboard! Make your yard weed free all season using recycled trash and stop weeding your yard and landscaping in an environmentally friendly way!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 My New Landscaping
1:21 Weeds Are Taking Over My Fruit Trees!
2:21 Using Cardboard For Weed Control
3:52 Prepping The Area & Placing Cardboard
5:44 How To Mulch To Control Weeds
8:30 Why This Weed Control Method Works
11:31 Adventures With Dale
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If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 My New Landscaping
1:21 Weeds Are Taking Over My Fruit Trees!
2:21 Using Cardboard For Weed Control
3:52 Prepping The Area & Placing Cardboard
5:44 How To Mulch To Control Weeds
8:30 Why This Weed Control Method Works
11:31 Adventures With Dale
How many years have you used cardboard? 8:15 4/12/24
Couldn't get my compost to get hot enough to kill off the seeds. Can't find cow manure that hasn't been already composted. Any suggestions would be great, I also cover the pile with a black tarp to help generate any heat from the sun.
I have laid cardboard down in my garden for years. My suggestion is to make sure the edges of the cardboard overlap or else weeds will grow through the gaps.
I use Cardboard in my garden as well. I also plant potatoes in the boxes, it works just fine!
Cardboard and paper are two things we actually do a good job of recycling. Glass and metals, too. Plastics are where we're failing.
I’ve been doing this for a couple of years in our back wild garden under our walnut tree. It has literally changed my life. I have found doing a brief soak of the boxes makes labels and tape removal really easy. I throw the boxes in a tote of water for a couple of minutes. I lay out the cardboard and cover it with shredded leaves from our oak tree. In the spring there are no weeds or trees sprouting and I have enriched soil for wild flowers. Next fall I will repeat the process
I keep reading the title as "FREE WEED All Season" and getting more excited than I should.
Smh smokers are jokers bro you don't need that gosh darn devils lettuce
This is my favorite weed suppression technique. I get lots of big sheets for free at Costco in the paper towels section. They use them on the pallets between the packages. Thanks again for another great tip. Love your channel 😊
You can buy large rolls of brown masking paper and put down a few layers of it if you cannot find enough cardboard. It’s fairly cheap and still breaks down like cardboard.
I run my cardboard boxes through a shredder (should work fine as long as it is rated for 10+ pages) and get a bunch of small pieces (4mmx12mm) makes it a lot easier to cover the whole area.
There's no real problem with colored cardboard, but waxy and shiny can be an issue.
Inks in most countries now are soy-based and don't pose any major concerns.
Nice video.
I would never get mulch from my recycle center people here in FL use lots of insecticides and herbicides including Round up you will be bringing that into your precious garden. I find large sheets of cardboard at bicycle stores and farmers market. Stuff comes in on pallets that have a layer of cardboard and then the boxes.
I advocate using cardboard as a weed suppressor and do so myself. However the info about cardboard not being recycled is bad. As a truck driver I hauled bales of cardboard to the paper mills sometimes across the entire country to meet a mills demand. There is a dollar value for each bale so any recycling center throwing it away is basically throwing away money and that would be very poor management.
No he's absolutely correct at least he is as far as Florida standards go. My best friend is in waste management and he talks about all the time and recycling is a scam nowadays because they charge extra to customers and it all goes into the landfills at the same time..
And I hear that is the case for many states across the continent. Is this experience of yours may be past tense?
I don't get a lot of boxes however, I go to Costco and get very large squares for free. They often stack their products, and in-between layers of one product, they lay a strong, large brown sheet of cardboard over the first layer then begin the next stack. Many sheets are about 4'x4'. I'll get as many as I need. Sometimes I'll go to the back where they stack them to bundle for recycling and ask if I can have some (the flats weren't bundled yet). They're always so nice and helpful. I tell them it's for my garden.
Bales of cardboard from manufacturing and warehouses are baled and still recycled. (Probably the bales you drive)
The cardboard that many residents put out in their recycling bin every week tends to end up in a landfill or incinerator because it is just too inefficient to have someone sort through it all to get what CAN actually be recycled from what people think is recyclable (greasy pizza boxes, cardboard with the glossy coating, etc)
I agree. I operate a material recovery facility, Cardboard is one of the most recycled products in the U.S. and one of the most valuable recyclable commodities.
@aworldreborn881 This is what someone else told me also, and we're in Florida too.
I did this with paper grocery store bags last year. This spring I started digging in the garden and I couldn’t find any remnants of the bags, all had bio-degraded into the soil.
Great job with explaining what and how to do it properly. At my old house we lost all of the newly laid turf due to drought and water restrictions in place at the time. Instead of trying to replace it I decided to turn it into a native garden using indigenous local plants. I decided to double the amount of cardboard and sourced local native mulch from an arborist clearing storm damaged trees and got it for free as they had so much. After initial establishment I only had to water my plants once a month and weeding every 3 months and just topped it off annually. At first my neighbours thought I was crazy until they saw the results and slowly started doing the same.
THIS IS A GREAT IDEAR FOR GARDEN WEEDS. IT'S SO HELPFUL! MANY THANKS FOR SHARING THE GOOD TIPS 🥰👍!!!
Some dollar stores will let you take all the broken down cardboard boxes. Be sure you don't put cardboard on too thick because it could hinder air and rain penetration in the soil below. I punch some slits in my cardboard to help with this. Thanks MG for another helpful video!
If you use enough mulch on top, it should keep the cardboard moist. But this is another reason why I recommend leaving the area around the trunk open and using the cardboard in between.
Cardboard around my fig tree along with a bit of old potting soil, chopped leaves & grass clippings saved my baby fig tree during the extreme drought last year. It now has cardboard in about a 12ft diameter circle around it. I have to order everything so I have a ton of boxes. I just planted a LOT more fruit trees and I`m adding grass clippings around them first, then soil and leaves on top of that, then cardboard over it to stop grass/weeds from growing around them.
We bought a little electric wood chipper that chips up to 2" branches. You can chip branches from pruning, those big stalks from your garden that don't easily break down, etc. It's been a great investment for us!
Which chipper did you buy?
My coworker wasn't happy with his. Which wood chipper did you purchase?
ohh thanks god the algorithm brought me here...we have an obscene amount of empty cardboard boxes after moving homes, a massive yard full of weed, and 3 fruit trees I just planted 3 weekd ago...perfect!
Such a great dog dad! Love Dale!
Please advise watchers to recycle cardboard if they can’t use it in their garden…love your demos..watching from UK
It also helps (particularly in dry climates) to soak the cardboard in a barrel of water, at least til all the air bubbles exit, but preferably longer, because the material can become rather hydrophobic just like completely dried compost can.
I'm gonna try that this year. I have all the decomposing straw I used to winterize my figs as well!
When we first build our raised beds we lay cardboard down underneath prior to putting dirt it's been 3 years and I have yet to have any weeds come up through it. Cardboard is outstanding to use and like you said the worms absolutely love it
I just did the exact same thing around my blueberry plants about three weeks ago. I used the composted straw from my straw bale garden from last year and it worked perfectly.
Old straw is AWESOME mulch!
@@TheMillennialGardener Help me to understand please. Old straw is good as mulch? Is it the same as hay? Doesn't it contain seeds. I went to buy some expensive seed free straw and the guy at the feed store talked me into getting this local stuff. What a mistake. My garlic and onions are over run with what looks like wheat. It is a tedious process removing and trying to save the garlic and onions.
You are awesome. Informative, creative, thoughtful, and intelligent. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Sheet mulching is my favorite gardening technique for suppressing weeds, improving soil health, and conserving moisture. I even employ this method when creating new garden beds, choosing to layer a few inches of compost on top of the cardboard to establish my garden rows. For walkways between the rows, I prefer using mulches like straw, woodchips, or grass.
Garden staples on the cardboard helps them stop from slipping when wet
Ahhh I’m the 1000th person to hit the like button..
Thanks again mister !
Another great video! I also use newspaper when I run out of cardboard or working around perennials that are close together. Newspaper doesn’t last as long but you can fold and tear it to fit tight spaces.
Whenever the landscaper “pros” come by for some reason, they always laugh at my cardboard barriers and insist I should be using landscape cloth. Obviously they haven’t used it in their own yards!
I’m so glad Dale has a robot-free safe place!
the info really helps, thank you for the sharing.
Your videos are so interesting and Dale is the icing on the cake!
Tried this once, and it did keep the weeds down. However, I couldn't figure out why my dogs kept going over scratching at the cardboard only to end up finding not one but four snakes under it. Decided it wasn't worth the risk and switched back to woven fabric
Eek!!
Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome!
Great idea - will start doing that in several places!
thanks for sharing 😀
You’re welcome!
I love seeing Dale, along with the great tips! ❤
Thanks! Dale says hi 🐶
Thank you for your great points!
You’re welcome!
Oh that scary vacuum!!! Poor Dale. 😢😂 What a cute ending to a very helpful video. 😊
I love to use cardboard to suppress weeds. Great video.
Great time saver. Just started using cardboard last year !
Awww man, I read the 5th word first and the fourthword second! 😆🤣
😂😂😂😂
Yep,,,gave done this for years.
Hello!! This is my first time catching you live! Thank you so much for all the great tips!
You’re welcome! I appreciate you watching.
@TheMillennialGardener I always check you out, and I particularly benefitted from the pruning video. My apple trees and rose bushes are prospering beautifully!! We gardeners appreciate you!
Thanks!
You’re welcome!
I really appreciate all the great advice and tips you provide 👍
Thank you! I’m glad I could help.
Roomba vs Dale😮 Go Dale!🐕❤
Thanks for your tip Anthony 🙋♀️🍀🦋
I always tell Dale that if we can’t keep the vacuum, we can’t keep him 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener hahahaha! Poor 🐕, stay young sweet Dale❤️🐕❤️
Perfect timing! The task I had set for myself today is to get the cardboard we have been saving in the garage all winter and place it around our row of large blueberry bushes. Then cover with the wood chip mulch we bought for them. We did this last year, and it greatly reduced the need for weeding under the bushes. Thanks for the inspiration, Mr. Gardener! ❤
Excellent information. Now to run to my favorite store(s) begging for boxes!
Thanks for the video🙋🏼
Costco. Free boxes and free large squares 4'x4' they use as product separators.
@@synergy2222
Thanks for the tip👍🏻
Yes! It works great!!
I laid cardboard down before the leaves dropped, and that there's my mulch. By time spring comes, you wouldn't know cardboard was even there!
And I noticed a lot of worms when digging in!
Win, win!
Useful info as always! Impressive banana plants! Love the dog :) 🐕 ❤️
Hopefully the bananas survived!
I did the same thing and it worked. Just should put some heavy things on the top, sometimes strong wind may make cardboard fly away
If you wet the cardboard as you put it down, it’s easier to keep in place before you put down the mulch.
Cool thx
You're welcome!
I love your channel and have learned a lot from it. One quibble with this video - IMO, it is mis-titled. This is not about keeping your YARD weed-free; it is about keeping your BEDS weed-free. Big difference! I did learn a lot from this video, and your channel is great! I will continue to watch all your videos!
My whole yard is covered in cardboard and mulch. No weeds.
I enjoy using cardboard in various ways in the garden.
Another good tip, MG!👍
Dale was just going upstairs to get to work in the office.😄
"Howdy", Dale!👋🐕
Thanks! Dale sends his warm regards from one of his many beds 🐕
@@TheMillennialGardener 😄
I think we can all get onboard with free weed 🌿
Hi , I’m a new subscriber & I must say I’m loving your videos!
I’m living in Michigan right now but originally from North Carolina a Tar Heel for sure.
So homesick.
As you know the weather in Michigan is much different than home & the things I loved to plant I just can’t due to weather here .
Your videos are helping me to see what plants are possible for growing here in Michigan.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us . 🪴
I tried this last year and it really did great with the weeds, but this year when cleaning up and refreshing the cardboard, I found colonies on ants and creepy crawlers. Any tips on how to prevent that?
Do you fertilize as you put seeds in the ground? Or do you fertilize before and after? You always have all the answers. Most complete videos on RUclips.
I transplant most things, which always get fertilizer at planting. For the things I do direct sow, like peas, onion bulbs, garlic, carrots, beets, etc., I always dust the planting trench or hole with an all purpose organic fertilizer.
I used to use mulch. However, the cats in my neighborhood loved to use it as a toilet. Also, I once found termites in a couple of bags that I bought from Lowe’s. After that I just decided to use white rocks and red lava rocks instead.
I only use cedar mulch on the areas that are in close proximity to my house, and have never had a problem with termites or other insects. For some reason, despite having a number of cats in the neighborhood, they don’t use my yard as a litter box too often. I guess I’m just lucky in that regard as there’s nothing worse than breaking up what you think is a clump of soil…
What do you suggest for the vegetable garden natural weed barrier material or cardboard boxes? I am a beginner gardener, just building the raised beds and would like to do organic gardening without chemicals. Thank you, your videos are the best!
I get free mulch from my local EMC or electrical suppiler. I let it rest for at least 6 to 8 months because it is green when it's delivered. I live in Ga. My DIL lives in NC. She has contact with a tree service that provides free mulch.
Do you do bucket planting at all those stacked bucket planters would fit perfectly between your trees and also keep the weeds down too and a lot of the times you can get food grade buckets super cheap or free the frames to hold the buckets you could build with recycled or scrap wood.❤ love the video just wondering?
Thank you! You inspired me to do more free mulch for my garden!
Love Dale ❤
Hi, I love your channel. My question is can I apply this practice for my vegetable garden? Give Dale a pat on the head for me..
Thanks
James from Jersey
Exactly what I do for mine. I get all the boxes from work so it's super easy. 😁 Otherwise unfortunately, yes they do go in the trash. Because here in the KCMO area recycling absolutely doesn't exist. It's pathetic.
This is a great informative video. What camera do you use?
There are many out there that don't want weed free all season but would rather have free weed all season!
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Do you have a video on types of boarder to keep grass out of beds?
Hello, thank you for such great tips. Can you please let me know the online website to buy the bare root trees? I live in Atlanta , is it too late to plant the bare roots trees
🚨 New follower here, I have old pine needles that came off my neighbors tree into my yard. I use them around my raspberry and blueberry bush but can I use them in my veggie garden too or will this be too acidic?
Can this be done in the garden
I'm going to try this with my planter that is 24 feet long and 2 feet wide that is in the front of my house.
Great idea, with cardboard. I learned that trick from an organic farmer friend. But you say you fertilize your trees root ball , all the info I have heard say the drip line is where you fertilize? Sorry off topic.
Do you worry about termites in mulch?
I had bad problem with bindweed were I plant onions in raised bed was given a role of cardboard about 100feet rolled out an covered bed added new cedar boards an soil mix in bed planted onions no weeds in soil yet but trying to slide out between boards all just hit with vinager spray 35%when it shows in boards hoping this keeps it out this year an kills some before cardboard disintegrates 🤔
Shreded cardboard mixed with shredded leaves & vermicast (or soaked with vermi slurry/tea) makes an excellect mulch where sheet mulching isn't practical. In some regards, it is superior. I learned this one season when I came up short on shredded leaves & vermicast & had to stretch the materials I had on site.
What is Vermy tea?
If the compost I get at the garden center in bulk smells very manure-y and ammonia like is it not aged enough?
I’m very tiny, and took on the horrific task of cleaning my stones around a patio. It was layered over plastic and created roots, worms dirt, etc. I also have a dying maple tree giving off pods and whirlybirds everywhere. I can’t keep up! I’m putting down hardware cloth and sand and replacing the cleaned stones. But, can I put pieces of cardboard under the sand before I put the stones back? I hate cutting the hardware cloth.
What you said about recycle winding up in the trash is completely true, however, not so much for cardboard. It's usually the plastics. Plastic producers lied to us way back in the 80's and 90's and said it could all be recycled, and it can't ... and they already knew it. Buy as few plastics as you can because what can be recycled in most areas varies. It has to be pristinely clean, or the whole batch gets relegated to the landfill. China is no longer buying our plastics. The US doesn't have the infrastructure to recycle 90% of plastics, so since no one is buying, it's getting trashed.
#2 plastics, as long as they're not shiny or clear, can be recycled at home with a heat source to 300 degrees (like a panini press), some kind of mold, and a press. At 300 degrees, there is little issue with off-gassing. Check out Brothers Make here on YT. It takes a bit of work, but think bottle caps, laundry detergent containers, medicine containers ...
However, cardboard is easily recycled as long as where you live has a place that will take it. Can't have grease or schmutz, like pizza boxes, but they can use every Amazon box. Or, as this video suggests, you can reuse it for organic purposes. For gardeners, this is a better use.
As a matter of fact, fast food restaurants are using recycled cardboard containers for to-go orders. Heck, Keizer Permanente has been using recycled cardboard for urinals, bedpans, and emesis basins for the at least 20 years (I know, because I'm a retired nurse that, as a traveler, worked off and on with KP) .
Hi sir, my in ground fig trees’ leaves are folding and have holes in it? Could you please guide me what to do?
Is cardboard recommended for the bottom of a 12" tall metal garden bed?
Does this work with grass?
You planted those fruit trees in the shade. Explain please how this works.
Do you wet the cardboard so it doesn't wick from the tree?
Greetings from Elizabethtown!
Is that Elizabethtown, KY?
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You’re close to me!
@TheMillennialGardener yes. Also, check out the Tractor Supply - they have the brown cardboard boxes when their trucks deliver merchandise. Also, I wonder what you think about using and repurposing the small area rugs - I have had good results using those as well.
Hey..I wondered if you can compost with “seeds”...Charles dowding say it should be ok?
I wouldn’t in a cold compost pile. If you hot compost, maybe, but I do not compost seeds.
Thanks man
I thought that when the flowers filled in they would shade out the weeds. That didn’t happen ,now I have a big mess . The flowers filled in but I can’t get to the weeds . Any suggestions?
Isnt fence has more risk of getting rotten, due to beds?
Wet the ground d 1st then wet the cardboard and then the mulch
I been using cardboard for years now works good but on Bermuda grass my nemesis
Bermuda grass is tough. We have it here, too. The only way to get rid of that is to rip it out, it seems.
What about 🐜,bugs?
I did start using cardboard around my raised beds so i dont have to weed around them⁰. Free is always good. He looks like a proud dog sitting up like that. My dag literally attacks our vacuum. Its a good reason not too vacuum. Lol.
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Quick question: Love this but will the cardboard attract any termites?
The cardboard is buried under mulch. It shouldn’t attract anything from above ground as long as you’re burying it.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you
Was scouring comments for this. Thanks
I see a fruit tree labeled jujube. Is this an experiment or do you have a liking for its fruit? I have not researched, but notice that Asian visitors to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden rush to pick up fruit that falls from trees. My thought is that it might be beneficial to health. I have a grove of jujubes and find ample water is needed for the fruit to develop properly. Last year's drought meant no fruit!
Any tips on getting chipmunks to stop eating my plants in the greenhouse? About half of my seedlings have the tops bitten off.
Put tulle netting over them. It's light as a feather and they don't like touching it as their little claws will get stuck. It's cheap. Fabric store or Amazon. It's great for birds too, they won't get caught in netting in garden. No animal likes it.
Fencing and garden netting. Physical barriers are the only way.
I saw the title and said I want free weed all season!
Or you could just pull them. In a well mulched bed, they're not hard to yank out. I'm not all that keen on covering the soil like that, even if it breaks down (eventually).
Cardboard IS typically recycled. Please do not perpetuate misinformation.
If you have allergies or mold illness, this can be terrible for you and your neighbors, unfortunately. I saw a study that showed cardboard that was used in the same manner, which affected indoor air quality in homes hundreds of feet away.