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GEO-TH, In

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Collected used carpet. Cut into 3 ft. Strips. Using wood chips between rows and to keep carpet from blowing away.

Hope this will keep weeds out.

Has anyone tried doing this?

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The part of garden without carpet is seed bed for flowers.
 
My dad did that years ago and I am still cleaning up the mess it made. After summer of it laying on the ground it became hard to pull back up in the fall and much of it is still laying around and come up once in a while when I am cutting and baling hay. I'm pretty sure you will find it to be a pain in the back sides.
 
I've used wood chips and just add a little more each year. No problems, no weeds and no mess to clean up.
 
(quoted from post at 13:52:46 05/06/19) Collected used carpet. Cut into 3 ft. Strips. Using wood chips between rows and to keep carpet from blowing away.

Hope this will keep weeds out.

Has anyone tried doing this?

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The part of garden without carpet is seed bed for flowers.
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On another note. My BIL has lung damage due to military service. Once or twice a year he'll have a mild case of pneumonia. Just got over one. His doctor was reviewing things around his house and property that he should be careful around. One is molds. When the DR heard he had wood chips as mulch around the house he was told to get rid of the wood chips as they can and will mold and hold moisture.

Rick
 
Landscapers use wood chips every day. I've handled wood chips for years and I'm not dead yet, 70.
Yes, some people are allergic to mold.
Amish don't use carpet because if you don't air condition your carpet will become moldy.
 
My wife uses carpet in the garden and around in the yard. It does suppress the grass. For about the first year you can mainly pull it up and get rid of it. By the second year if it is not removed the grass roots have grown all in it and it is has rotted to the point it breaks off in small pieces making it hard to get rid of. I think you would be okay if you get rid of it this fall.
 
How would you keep cardboard in place?

Where did you get enough cardboard for a garden?

That's something I may look at next year.

At end of year, I would use front loader, scoop it up, put it in dump trailer and take to mulch pile in
gravel pit.

I had to use wood chips to keep my carpet from blowing away.
 

I have tried everything, news paper is to much work, cardboard draws termites... I now make the rows wide enough to mow them and mulch around the plants with leaves are crass clippings...

Carpet was a P.I.T.A to get up and store... I still have some draped over a old car so the rain will get the carpet cleaner out of it you can have it....
 
(quoted from post at 15:36:45 05/06/19) How would you keep cardboard in place?
[color=blue:7b794cd0fe]Same way one would keep carpet in place; wood chips, sand/soil, rocks, stakes for landscape fabric, etc...[/color:7b794cd0fe]
Where did you get enough cardboard for a garden?
[color=blue:7b794cd0fe]We buy a lot from online, Amazon and Walmart. Get lots of boxes that way. Also use empty food boxes underneath the big boxes. It all turns to soil in the end.[/color:7b794cd0fe]
That's something I may look at next year.

At end of year, I would use front loader, scoop it up, put it in dump trailer and take to mulch pile in
gravel pit.

I had to use wood chips to keep my carpet from blowing away.
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Well it sounds like you don't want to hear anyone who disagrees with this idea, but here goes. Did this years ago. Like TWENTY years ago, and now and again I still drag a piece of carpet out of the old garden. Not to mention the pilling and nap that will always be there loose in the soil. It makes a terrible mess and may not be as easy as you think even with your machine to remove. It will tear and shred and pieces will be there forever.
 
Way back my dad put black plastic stack cover on part of garden. Just punched holes where planted, don't remember what was planted or hard it was to pick up when done with it.
 
(quoted from post at 14:19:15 05/06/19) Landscapers use wood chips every day. I've handled wood chips for years and I'm not dead yet, 70.
Yes, some people are allergic to mold.
Amish don't use carpet because if you don't air condition your carpet will become moldy.
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Really don't care much about you, what about grand kids? If they ever visit it could still be an issue.

Rick
 
You were worried about chemicals in Hemp oil that would be nothing compared to the chemicals in the carpet your vegetables can now pull up as the carpet fibers break down.
 
Why does he need carpet,,just keep adding a layer of chips if your using chips? I thought wood chips robbed nitrogen from the garden soil?
 
I do too,I have been cleaning up the old farmhouse yard,,caught a piece of old carpet,or something like it in the mower,,what a pain to cut it all loose,Heres an old swimming pool base I cleaned up yesterday

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Had to haul it to a dumpster
 
I have used carpet in my garden for years. I like it. It also is nice that you do not walk in mud. In the fall I just lift it out and wash it off with a sprayer and let it dry on the driveway, then put it in the shed till next year.
 
Larry.
I'll post pics of how I pick up the carpet this fall with the front forks on Terramite.
On the way to Florida in February, I saw a place in Alabama growing veggies using plastic mulch.
The plastic is white on the top side and black on the bottom side. The black side is suppose to be stronger. They had a device that installs the plastic tucking the edges in the dirt. They poke holes in the plastic to plant veggies.
I need to find a way to keep weeds out of garden. My back won't allow me to use tiller.

George.
 
You'd have to clean it and dry it well before bringing it back into your bedroom for the winter months.
 
My mom had a green house mat that you would have to unroll. It worked great for a number of years till we had to move the garden/ stopped using them. I m still finding chunks of that in the ground today. Last time we used it was 15 years ago.
 
I carpeted the front of my barn . The weeds will eventually grow through ,carpet fragments will be stuck in your soil.
 
I plan to pull up the carpet at end of growing season, which is about frost time. Last of September or early October. 5-6 months. Everyone is making a big deal thinking it will be a battle to remove it. My terramite will do all the work. Post pics in 6 months.
 
George .... you did ask if anyone had done this thing with the rugs, and some reported they did and said it didn't work out for them. Did any of them make a big deal about it? I assumed you wanted some feedback.
 

We used waste llama fiber on our garden. At the end of the season we rake it up and burn it. Will have plenty to replace it once we get the herd sheared again.
 
We use chain link fence wind fabric, plant tomatoes into paint buckets with bottoms cut out. Take the fabric up in the fall. 6 years old this year.
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Dad has used it and still a pain as it comes apart after just the one years use. Still find some on the tiller when done going through garden. Straw would work as well and could just be turned back into the soil when done in fall. till put down straw and add some more as needed.
 
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