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Cardboard Jackpot

19 years ago

Yesterday we went to costco, I sent the other half shopping while I cruised the place looking for the cardboard slip sheets that they put between layers of stuff on the pallets. I think I got over 700 SF of slip sheets. Most of them are around 3 ft by 4 ft. This should help me re-build some areas of the yard where I hope to plant some winter cover crops. Only about 400 sf will be planting beds but I've learned to extend the cardboard and mulch around and between the planting beds to keep weeds away and make mowing easier.

I'm sure any of those big membership wharehouse stores would be a good source for cardboard. I wasn't too interested in the actual boxes but those slip sheets are great, half of the ones I collected were already on edge between the pallets for easy pick up. This method was much nicer than trying to pull boxes out of dumpsters where they may be wet or have nasty stuff dumped on them.

Now I need more compost, leaves, and other organic matter to pile on!!!

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