NO DIG BEDS USING ZERO CARDBOARD! | vegetable grower UK | vlog #46

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Nice work. Really cool

Brilliant well done hard work I'd say thank you

Worms love to eat cardboard, cardboard attracts worms, worm poop is great for the plants, as are worm tunnels.

Plastic degrades into microplastics, needs picked up and stored then off to the landfill when its too degraded to use.

Would it make any difference if I put new a good 6" of mulching compost on the top of the weeds before then putting the plastic over the top and then poking a few holes in the plastic to get some plants going straight away?

How much land you work ? is that your only source of revenue ? Thanks for your time.

Good on you Brother,🥦🥒🌽👏

Fully agree and use exactly same method to manage perennial weeds and also improve worm population and soil structure - great update thanks

How much time to wait between laying down the manure, then then the compost, and then planting? Or all at same time? Thanks for vid!

Great idea … so if you use quality pond liner then when you finish you can dig out a pond & line with your liner and fill with rainbow trout. For organic fish protein yum!

Great video, so if I understand things right you want to let weeds sprout in the summer but you don't want them to go to seed right? So you cover them sometime before the period of going to seed

Thank you,, inspiring, had to subscribe🙏

Of course the biphenol-A contained in the plastic kills the weeds exactly as it kills our cells in our body...

Great video Alex. How would you deal with a badly rotavated very uneven allotment? How would you level it? Rotavate it again?

Thanks, great video, new subscriber here. I’m interested in why you use manure and compost? From most of the videos I’ve watched the most logical idea is to compost the manure to destroy and non-digested seeds. However, would I be right in assessing that it’s quicker to add manure plus compost, and does the compost act as a sun blocking layer to stop indigested seeds from growing? I hope that made sense!

Hi Alex, where did you get such a large tarpaulin/plastic sheet? Was it very expensive?

Appreciate information given in this video thanks Alex👍

Took then same approach but used cardboard from the local shop 😁 Then again my plot is 10m x 10m so a fraction of what you had to cover. Great to see the results. We've got bindweed and thistle so they're pretty persistent and resilient and it doesn't help having severely neglected plots around us spreading the seeds but it's a vast improvement to the way it was. It's still much easier to weed them out as we see them pop up. Great video. Thanks for sharing 😊👍

thanks great information

Really intriguing and helpful. That's a huge area of plastic tarp so how did you stop the wind getting under it and lifting it (a problem I've had with much, MUCH smaller areas). Also, do you leave the plastic tarps down beneath the soil (if yes, how do you get a decent growing depth, because you're putting the plastic on to the surface).Many thanks.

Hi Alex, great advice, didn’t realise you had to let the pesky weeds germinate first 🤦🏼‍♀️ I notice your land looked like mine when you began (heavy clay) but you still had great results. I began in lockdown last March and had terrible trouble getting a full sized harvest, other than manure, blood/fish/bone and compost do you have any suggestions on land prep?

That was really interesting, you've done a great job!

That looks really good - way to go Alex!

That is turning really good, Blessings in the 2021 growing season.

thinking like a market gardener now Alex ;-) : All the best - Steve

I put tarpaulin over a few areas of my plot and will move around as weeds pop up 😃

Very well explained. Thanks from a new 66 year old allotmenteer!

Great videos. What do u do about watering? Can't imagine the size of beds!!

A great informative video, keep them coming Alex.

I'm just in the process of doing this myself. Thank you for the confirmation that it works, happy growing...😊