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Implement Cardboard Weed Control in Garden Beds

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What happens here

After clearing the raised garden beds of existing plants and debris, lay flattened cardboard boxes (such as Amazon boxes) across the soil surface. Ensure all plastic tape is removed from the boxes before placement. The cardboard acts as an effective weed barrier by blocking sunlight, preventing dormant weed seeds from germinating, and gradually decomposing into the soil. This process helps to 'put the garden beds to rest' for the winter, creating a moist, rich environment underneath that attracts beneficial organisms like earthworms, as demonstrated by lifting a piece of cardboard to reveal moist soil and old grass underneath. When ready to plant in the spring, simply cut holes in the cardboard to insert new plants.

Goal: Cover cleared garden beds with flattened cardboard boxes to suppress weeds and prepare the soil for decomposition over winter. This method prevents weed seeds from sprouting and enriches the soil as the cardboard breaks down.

Tools and materials

  • Amazon Cardboard Boxes
  • Garden Bed Debris (old grass
  • leaves)

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prevent blossom end rot this is a storage area for right now and these are the Amazon boxes we're going to go over here and show you so I get probably like you guys I get a ton of stuff in from Amazon all the time getting boxes in well I decided to try this this year when we put the garden beds to rest with Amazon boxes so these Amazon boxes right here if we lift up you'll see what's going on underneath and I imagine we may see earthworms this is my first reveal okay so there's old grass all the old grass that was in here is all put to bed it's really really moist what this does is it destroys all those unwanted weed seeds in your plant beds now you can use this as weed prevention once your garden has started so in other words we leave this in it kind of melts down you don't have to take it out just take all the plastic tape off of your Amazon boxes and we get ready to plant your garden just cut a hole in and put your garden plants in there and it will help you control your weeds in your garden if you guys tune into the channel before you'll know that these garden beds were absolutely inundated with weeds totally covered with weeds this is again White Oak you could use a treated Timber if you wanted to you could also use railroad ties I would recommend lining the inside with plastic but we're trying to get away from plastic so you can put plastic sheeting on the top of this and that will also do the same thing but we want it to be able to breathe and that's why we're using our Amazon boxes so we just went through and pulled all of the debris and weeds and mess out of all these garden beds then we went over to the chicken coop and we cleaned out the chicken coop and each year we choose two or three different garden beds and we put all that chicken litter right into our garden bed and that's what this is right here it's going to rot down just like that first box that I showed you and make this beautiful dark Rich awesome soil and we're not using any chemicals guys that's what it's all about so that's how I put the garden beds to bed once a year I will add manure to my garden beds and we've got about 10 beds right now and my plan is

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