Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: woodburner on May 11, 2008, 22:55
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I can't get enough :D Any suggestions? Our local tip takes a very dim view of totting. The delivery areas back of the shopping precinct has loads but all bundled up ready for collection for recycling by a different method.
In case you're wondering why this is in 'grow your own', I use it for mulching (mainly).
If any mod feels it would be better suited to a different forum, I don't mind if it's moved :)
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What sort of cardboard? Thin like cereal boxes or corregated? Do you shread it first then apply it? Sounds a great way to recycle at home.
I work in an office and our stationery is delivered in corregated boxes so I could get my supply like that, maybe you should contact some small local businesses? Especially if they normally have to pay to recycle it, you could offer a free service?
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Corrugated, the bigger the better. The shops delivery areas was my attempt at cadging off local businesses. Maybe I'd have better luck with offices :o :wink:
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the electrical retailer usually has big pieces from all those white goods. Business parks too are good sources of lotty stuff :D I use it for paths and temporary paths to save my soil from a hammering if I need to walk on it etc. If you get those veggie boxes from the supermarket you can actually grow saladings in those as they're very strong. I saw a chap at our Tesco pile up a trolley with a huge stack of them the other day :D
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Ask any garage/shop for their one of their bundles. Here they are happy to give them away. Any tape & plastic covered card goes to the bin - rest goes down - a couple of layers thick, then covered in old horse manure.... :) & I plant into that.
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or on top in the case of spuds :D
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Thanks for the suggestions. :) I hadn't thought of the industrial estate for cardboard only pallets ;)
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they usually have good bits of timber too, from packaging etc, it's usually long, thinnish rails of planed stuff. Sawdust, that kinda thing :D