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|    songbird to hubops@ccanoemail.ca    |
|    Re: No till organic    |
|    05 Mar 21 21:06:23    |
      From: songbird@anthive.com              hubops@ccanoemail.ca wrote:       ...       > I first thought that the glue and ink and residual chemicals of       > the paper-making paper-recycling process would render corrugated       > cardboard " not suitably organic " but a google search seems       > to prove me wrong ... < ? > Happy mulching !               avoid any of the colored and shiny cardboards as they may       have plastic coating on them. just use the plainest cardboards       you can find with black ink. remove any tape or labels that       might also be plastic coated. otherwise worms love it and       chew it up eventually. also it is easy to redo if the card-       board gets chewed up, just scrape the mulch back and put it       down and then move the mulch back on. works great. i've       done that for smothering some tough areas of weeds and       grasses.                      songbird              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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