Free Cardboard boxes

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on June 15, 2008 at 6:14am

Cardboard boxes also make nice bottom layers for lasagna gardening...

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Permalink Reply by Lindy Ross Barnes on June 15, 2008 at 8:38am

Hi Chloe - I am definitely interested but won't need them for about 1 year. If someone else takes them to use locally perhaps I could get them after that. Just a thought!

Lindy

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Permalink Reply by Chloe Rhea Beauford on June 26, 2008 at 1:29pm

Hi All - Just an update. I will start unpacking next week and those cardboard boxes can be yours, if you want them. I can bring some to the market or you are welcome to stop by my new house near downtown to pick them up. If you want 1 or 2, or a whole boat load - just let me know.

There are a ton of permie uses for cardboard boxes! Journy to Forever has a great website devoted to creative ways to use cardboard boxes. Uses include everything from feeding them to your compost worms, to solar ovens, to egg incubator, and even how to make your own cardboard arm chair. (You know you need some patio furniture.)

Don't forget, cardboard can kill grass - the bane of our existence! If you lay it down over the grass and cover with rocks for instance, no light - no grass. Best yet, the cardboard decomposes. You can even use it for temporary composter or seedling starter.

I tell you, the possibilities are endless. :)

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Permalink Reply by Doreen Pollack on June 29, 2008 at 5:11pm

CHloe - Ths is Doreen for thecalss on Satirday and I would like some boxes, as many as you have unpacked by next saturday. I can get them from you at the market, or pehaps have you over for an iced coffee afterward at my place?

I will use them you help kill my bermuda!

The Garden Goddess

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Permalink Reply by Chloe Rhea Beauford on June 29, 2008 at 11:26pm

Hi Doreen,
I will gladly bring boxes for you to the market on Saturday! Thanks for taking me up on it. I think they will be great for killing grass. You'll have to post something so that everyone knows how that worked out for you. I know lots of people are on a grass killing mission.

Chloe

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