Hi Friends. I've just moved and have 300 Moving cardboard boxes... Can I use these to put in as a base on my raised beds? They have a little bit of ink from a company logo on them? Thanks Kind Advise
should be good. palma sola botanical park in bradenton let the rare fruit council plant plants in an area and when we got the pathways laid out we took cardboard boxes and layered them in the planting beds than put free mulch you get from some of the three trimming companies in a good layer above the cardbourd and its been about a year and all the plants that where planted properly seem to be happy most of the cardbourd is gone accept for the newest area where cardboard was placed.there is some concern about inks in papper and cardboard but its mostly the really shiny inks that are the problem but i know worms love cardboard good luck
The moving boxes would probably be okay under your raised beds, if you are looking to dispose of the boxes and start a raised bed. It does seem a little wasteful, knowing how often people ask for free moving boxes. The 300 boxes could be recycled on Craiglist or something. If you're looking for an inexpensive base for raised beds, old newspapers or superceded drawings from a consulting landscape architect/engineering/architecture office might be useful.
Recycling came to mind for me this year in regard to cardboard or paper being used for no-till gardening or lasagna gardening. The facts I found were surprising, because when cardboard or paper is not recycled, a lot more sulfur dioxide is put into the environment, and oil used, to make new product instead. So I ended up writing and uploading a new advice page about just that subject. If recycling is not available near someone's home, then using it in the garden can make a lot of sense. But if curbside or local recycle is available, then sheet-mulching with paper actually triggers pollution elsewhere, with more electric and oil energy sources wasted.
