I'll be honest...I never considered ripping up the cardboard and using that for compost brown material..... I like to keep a pile going just to hide the trimmings!
The fungi/bacteria love it, Key is to not put cardboard or paper that they have plastic or certain prints on it. I even leave full pieces ontop of my vermicompost to keep a moisture and anti pest barrier. it works great caude if u add moisture based things and add the paper/cardboard it def will rebalance that and give a nice barrier/defense in ur composter.
no reason to throw away paper and cardboard, I use it as first layer before I add my landscape fabric , this makes it last longer but if ur walking on it this also makes things like rocks and misc things that would rip it when walked on way less like;y of happening. That layer under it will make a huge diff. I keep almost all my seasons cardboard and for me it shows how much it can do in garden and landscape fabric . I used to have to replace my walking way landscape in my grow square every 1-2 years but using cardboard and leaving previous landscape there vs removing it makes the end result very durable. Also buy ur landscape from greenhouse wholesalers or even on amazon , Home Depot and local hardware landscape fabric sucks ass. I made some serious mistakes thinking that was worth it and that stuff is ultra thin crap, crazy how none of them sell the legit greenhouse/commerical landscape. amazon sells tons of brands and it’s free ship so why fuck around lol
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anyways went in town , gifted some clones and flower to a buddy. went to Dairy Queen for lunch. Made some dinner ( lasagna). Cleaned the kitchen and smoking right now. Plan is take more clones of moms to have Doubled and I since still in here might as well vs trying outdoors.
asap taking moms/seedlings to grow square and place in shade. Still need to submit journal
This winter my whole grow square collapsed ( I’ll explain later) and my water/electric got also damaged out there. That’s quite the task to fix?. once plants recovered od I’ll place into final pots and top dress em . The veggie garden had over 50% in ground and have many things still to do….
‘’like many it’s endless work everyday , but wouldn’t ask it for anything else