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http://www.permies.com I'm against the use of newspaper or cardboard in gardening or horticulture. But I'm in a minority. Many of the big names in permaculture / sustainable agriculture favor the use of newspaper or cardboard. Newspaper or carboard are often uses as part of a technique called "lasagna gardening". The idea is to use it as a mulch that will smother everything underneath it. Most people think that the concern might be the use of icky ink. But my primary concern is the chemical process to get the lignins to come out of the wood to make paper. A concern with the carboard is the chemicals in the glue. I tell a story of a tree that is doing poorly and then find newspaper under the soil. Five years have passed and the newspaper is still in tact and kept the water away from the tree roots. music by Jimmy Pardo
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Vancouver wa, 3 months no more cardboard box's. never newspaper, "THEY" the government that owns the newspaper company's, want you to fail. but I think we'll be able to make it. ✊😷
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Just because some idiot used it incorrectly, doesn't make newspaper or cardboard bad. That stuff breaks down extremely fast normally. It's common sense.
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Look at lasagna gardening for growing soil and suppressing weeds.
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I like putting a tarp/canvas that doesn't let light through over the grass I want to go away the fall before I want to plant, and by spring, the grass underneath is dead as a door nail and easily tilled into the soil or I've always just planted in it and then mulch with wood chips everywhere around the plants. It works.
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termites.
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Worms love cardboard. I put both in my worm trench
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have no desire for dandelions is what i meant. i think we can agree that comfrey is cool and leave it at that. wish you great fortune this coming growing season.
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with all due respect, the point i was attempting to suggest is that the dandelion IS serving a purpose in your environment, like a sneeze serves a purpose when you have a cold. if you don't care for the symptom, that's cool, it's your garden, but then it might be wiser to address the underlying issue (likely a mineral imbalance in the soil), rather than spend all your energies trying to eradicate the symptom. i/o/w, listen to/work with nature vs. fighting it in an attempt to control it.
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i was actually suggesting leaving the roots right there and chop/dropping the foliage. but yes, still a risk of them not dieing off and spreading. however, what you could do is pull them and ferment them with some molasses to make a liquid fertilizer to feed your other plants.
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A. comfrey is cool for sure, no argument there. sorry for the assumption on the mantis. utube had it listed as being uploaded 2 days ago, so i jumped to a conclusion, a wrong one it seems. my apologies.
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4. i bear no joy at saying this, but regardless of whether you want them there or not, it seems that the soil that you are tending wants them there, otherwise they wouldn't be growing there. you could see the book "weeds - guardians of the soil" (available free online) for further details if you wish to know more. if you were to do a soil test, i would be willing to bet ya a bottle of dandelion wine that the soil is deficient in some combo of Mg/Ca/Fe/Cu and perhaps a bit on the acidic side.
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2. dandelions are one of the earliest blooming flowers in the spring, just when the bees are thirsty for some mother's milk after a long winter's nap. if you can find a flower that look nicer to you and that blooms that early, then i'm sure the bees would thank you and return the favor at some point. 3. well, if your garden is only about you and since you have no desire, then i sincerely wish that you never have a need. however, perhaps someone else that you may know does?
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1. (a) plants exchange excess nutrients with their neighbors through the root systems. this is part of the methodology behind "guilds" & companion planting. technically, who is actually doing the exchange are the millions of microorganisms (which you are by the way committing mass genocide on every time you shred the soil with that preying mantis tiller). (b) you can chop & drop the foliage and leave the roots in the soil to decompose back into the elements from which they were built.
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"What's right with them?" 1) one of the best dynamic accumulators for the soil (bringing nutrients up so that other plants can access them). 2) very important for honeybees, as it provides nectar & pollen for them early in the season as the bees come out of dormancy. 3) one of the most overall effective herbal medicines on the planet : liver, kidney, stomach, diabetes, etc.
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what's wrong with dandelions?
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so I question whether I should use leftovers from them or not.
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Do u just find farmers that don't use them? We have horses and I believe lots of the hay that is marketed to horses has been sprayed at some point.
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Yes.
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do u worry about the hay being sprayed with biocides?
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