Cardboard helped turn one homeowner's lawn into a flower bed in just 6 months

Cardboard helped turn one homeowner's lawn into a flower bed in just 6 months

Over six months, two gardeners in Denmark turned a basic stretch of lawn into a colorful, textured perennial flower bed that was far friendlier to pollinators. Their step-by-step YouTube video tracks the work beginning March 5 on a neighbor's yard, comparing two ways of building the beds: one using a cardboard-and-compost no-dig setup and another made by flipping the existing sod. What happened? Set on the east coast of Denmark's Jylland region,…

I'm Using Old Cardboard Boxes to Make Growing Vegetables So Much Easier This Heatwave Summer

Now I'm using old cardboard boxes to mulch my vegetable patch this summer, my plants are flourishing despite the heat, I spend far less time watering and weeding, and I don’t have to deal with cat poop. It took an hour to do, and didn’t cost me a penny. And even though I only mulched this raised bed a week ago, I've already saved more time than it took to lay the cardboard. So from now on, I’ll be making cardboarding an essential part of growing…