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people don't believe on cardboard. At this point they pay you to take truck loads of it away lol. Sort it out nicely. Except for pulling for the plastic tags which you can do with a bit of steam.

4:12 you can do almost the same thing in a pasture as well. Just do it with a single layer of cardboard then you put compost on top of it. And you take a drill and just drill down and do it on your row. you harvest your seed corn and pumpkins then they can just graze off the rest.

Love this method! So easy and productive!

from where do you get the cardboard?

Jim is a great guy. Been there many times for rough cut lumber. I'm glad I found your video, thanks for posting!

I guess cardboard is ok, but I get the same results with natural mulches, and I don't have to leave home to gather mulch....it grows all over the place. If I lived somewhere that I didn't have access to mulch, but DID have access to cardboard, I would use it. I'm pretty sure the word "inventor" does not apply to using cardboard this way...I'd bet my farm that people were doing this before Ricky was born. Tilling is definitely a waste of time, non-productive, harmful to your soil, your back, and our air. You know what really loves tilling? WEEDS!

It's absolutely incredible what this man has accomplished. What a fascinating method and inspiring man.

After realizing that a lot of recycling doesn't get done I put all paper goods into the garden.

Sounds like you are calling yourself the inventor of the cardboard method...

Using cardboard on the bottom of my compost and when I moved my compost I noticed I had almost 4 inches of worm castings on top of the ground

What about the ink print on the cardboard, is it best to use just plain ,no print stuff, thx.

05:38 ghost compost

I used newspaper now I will use cardboard

I absolutely love using cardboard; however, since the jumping worms have come to my yard, they eat the cardboard up so fast, my soil is still left dry and dead. Ricky, are you sure those weren't jumping worms at the beginning of your video? They looked like they were thrashing around.

Great vid!

Just if there is no so much compost any other option for people who cannot buy lot of compost ???

I laid out cardboard thickly in our old weedy front flower beds 3 years ago. Then we put heavy mulch over it. Sometimes we put pulverized Fall leaves or dry grass clippings among it all. It looked great and only now....we are needing to add additional flat cardboard...mulch, etc. We go to liquor store or Dollar stores for the free cardboard boxes. I dunk the boxes in deep rain barrel to soften, and flatten the boxes more easily. We will refresh our efforts every couple years when needed. Thks for inspiring us all with ‘hope’ for weed control!! Ahna Atlanta/ga

Beautiful video

I have a raised bed could i lay cardboard on top and wet it down ? Will the worms come?

Wow!

Now that’s pretty slick. Get your students to spread your cardboard.

I've been doing this a bit for 30 yrs. Made a new garden at our great grandparents farm when sis bought it, bringing it back into the family (lost during the depression), using cardboard, straw, and plants I hauled from 5 hrs away. None of us lived there. I watered it well and could not return. She arrived to harvest boxes of tomatoes and peppers. Our uncle, a lifelong farmer, asked me how I did that!

any thoughts on the toxicity of the inks on cardboard ?

In the Pumpkin Patch I sow lots of oilseed radish to offset the trampling from volunteers picking bug eggs and weeds.

I’m biking to their farm this Sept for a garlic weekend, can’t wait to chew the fat with Ricki.

I love the energy

But what do you do when you cultivate 1 hectare..2 hectares of vegetables?

We bought a silage tarp, but also have a lot of cardboard. Can we put the cardboard under the tarp?

feed the soil, not the plant. its not ''food'' for the plant

The narration is vague and we are unable to catch what he is telling.

Been using cardboard for several years now and I have to say the results are great! Sold my roto tiller and just use lots of mulches (grass clippings, leaves, weed waste, etc.,) and lots of cardboard. My veggie garden is more productive and my work load is way lower than what it was! Have a great day! Mike 🇨🇦🍁

The Tea Party had nothing to do with farming. We actually would tend to agree with much of what this gentleman says. What we oppose is massive government overreach into every aspect of human life - something you'd think this gentleman would agree with. I'm using a combination of his and another gentleman's methods on my own home farm. We have to be careful about carelessly dismissing each other. For example, it's clear that, at least at this point in time, this gentleman was more liberal/left than conservative/right as I am, but when he's talking about gardening, and about the intentional destruction of human life and independence and the separation of people from their ability to produce their own food in order to control them, HE'S RIGHT. That should be more obvious than ever these days. The divide isn't liberal vs conservative, it's independence vs dependence; human vs anti-human. It's normal people vs the controlling elite. And that being the case, there's NO place for us fighting each other. That only hands THEM the victory.

Funny how prescient he seems today, isn't it? I'm looking at you, Great Reset.

Sweet, sweet, beyond words. Love the women, love the messages, love the filming. . More of this please. Sara Dragonfly Farm Alabama

Such a great video and program!

This works great but it's nothing new. It's called mulch and has been around from the dawn of time. Earthworms to love it though.

My grandfather has been using this method before this dude was born ! You have invented nothing but I will say you shared a good video.

If you have clay soil, I would lightly till first and add compost, then cardboard, then heavy mulch. I had to redo my entire garden this year as the soil was still hard and gray under the cardboard and mulch of last year.

Where do you obtain your boxes in bulk?

I can't believe you transplant corn. I have never known or heard of anyone transplanting corn and I've grown corn small scale for over 30 years. What size tray do you use ? I'm going to try transplanting corn in a small plot. Thank you.

5:12 ～ European also have an animism. Animism+Morals+Ancestors+Educations+Shurines+Buddhism are makes Japan. Thank you for this video.

I want to use this method in my tractor tire to help build the soil level back up & increase nutrient's. But what I'm wondering is my Grand Father Painted it white because the soil would get to warm & dry out. I'm thinking by using the Cardboard to keep the weed down and by putting down . by mulching on top it would keep the soil shadowed from the sun. Or do you think because the tire is now almost black it would heat the soil to much? I'm no green thumb I've planted thing's not just because the price of groceries have gone up. But I'm trying to find a less Labor intensive but Eco friendly way of doing things. You see I'm a Micmac Indian, & some of my Elders are sceptics. I'm probably gonna try it anyway. I went through neck & Back surgery I finally got approved for my disability. But now there going to take my Food Stamp's away. And the money they were going to pay me, the county want's me to pay them back. Will just barely keep the roof over my head. So I figure I'm gonna have to do what I can to to survive. But that leave my Landlord, he's my Uncle Rudy, he's still on the hook. I already owe him so much back rent some people don't understand that Sh[EXPLC]it... I've worked all my life, started paying for a so called Federal income Healthcare tax. I think it was called FICA on my pay stubs. But here's the funny thing, they only go back three years. So i went to see a Pro bono Individual from a local agency that said they would help me out I got Boned alrite !!! I had to Sign a Consent to an attorney to get what they deserved. F[EXPC]it it's not about the money. " I came in Bald broke & Toothless" statistics show I'm probably going out that way...

This is how I use all my wife’s Amazon boxes! Had to do something, so many! My back gardens are incredible...

I've been a Charles Dowding fan for several seasons; this is the most inspiring video i've seen of late, and is motivating me to go do some work ! Not digging, naturally ;0)

Wow! This is so good! Lovely women all!!

enjoyed very much

Love these voices. visuals pretty great, too.

No millions years, the planet is too young 12-15 thousand years old, just use natural soil, the best compose is cow poop hay, leaves.

When you water the plants that you cut a hole through the cardboard do you just water the cardboard and it soaks through to water the plant?

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