Making New Growing Beds Cheap

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Making a New Grow Bed

Here in the land of clay and rocks it can take a lot of work to make a new growing bed. With some experimentation we have developed a method, which I am sure is not new, in helping along Mother Nature with the US Post Office.

All of our paper and cardboard junk mail now gets placed into new growing beds. We take all of this Free compost and completely cover the bottom of the bed with at least two to three inches of the soy based inked material. When the bed is ready to be put down. We take about two to three years worth of leaves and then compost them on top of the pile.

I will agree that it takes a while to do this but what better way to reuse all the junk paper that comes into the mailbox.

Our new strawberry bed was done in the same manner but we covered the straw and leaf pile with plastic and in one year it was ready for planting.

If you have a spot that is covered in difficult unwanted plants, such as Johnson grass or long runner roots like blackberries. This method works well to choke them out by the layer of paper and cardboard. This also promotes worm growth as they love what occurs next to the soil under the cellulose.

See this link for pictures of our wood pile compost practice.

About 18 months of junk mail.
The cat was removed before leaf addition.
Although he loves to jump and hunt in the new piles below.

Note old pine logs for the sides of the bed.
The old log will decompose in a couple years and be added to the growing bed.
Worms loves this type of log.

One season of leaves.
Beats burning them.
Returning carbon to the soil.

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