Growing a Cardboard Box Garden!

[KevinM67]

I've just noticed you're a mod again !!!

[veggiechicken]

You know me Kelvin, once I get a crazy idea I have to do it - right then, no messing about thinking it through
It was the same with the cardboard boxes

[Baldy]

We'll see VC- seems to a junior 'member' like me that you can't 'stick' to your guns....
its as if you have a strange addiction to this site and were on it at least as much when you weren't (officially) a mod.

I seem to remember reading a lot of convincing reasons why you had to surrender your pointy stick...

(BTW Bazza you're my favourite Mod, - obviously)

[Greenleaves]

Most towns and villages have a 'bag lady'....as grapes we have an up market version a 'box lady'

[veggiechicken]

We'll see VC- seems to a junior 'member' like me that you can't 'stick' to your guns....
its as if you have a strange addiction to this site and were on it at least as much when you weren't (officially) a mod.

I seem to remember reading a lot of convincing reasons why you had to surrender your pointy stick...

(BTW Bazza you're my favourite Mod, - obviously)

You're confused Baldy and I'm only here so much because I have your welfare at heart/
Now sit down and tell Aunty VC who Bazza is?

[Baldy]

Barry Crryer - I've come to believe through the high quality of the comedic value of one mod's comments that she/he may be Bazza. (And doesn't live in South Wales cos if you've ever been there its rarely sunny)

I'm saying no-more. I'm probably wrong. As usual.

[veggiechicken]

As I thought, you're showing signs of extreme confusion. For example, everyone knows its always sunshiny in South Wales.

[fishpond]

It will be interesting to see how the slugs & woodlice take to the cardboard.
As I also seem to have a reasonable collection of cardboard boxes, I am looking forward to the conclusions of your experiment.
Will you be publishing the results in a scientific journal, or the Beano when they all collapse?

[Muddy_Boots]

OMG I'm reading this thread and my brains starting to hurt.

[Dalrimple]

I can see this working for repeat planting where you use one lot up as the other grows things like salad leaves and radish ,it's a bit like starting stuff off in guttering only ya don't need to slide it out ,iv'e a bit of plastic that I must have saved just for this job ! thanks for the idea VC. i'm going to have a pizza delivered tonight that's lettuce and rocket sorted.atb Dal.

[Kitchen Gardener]

Worth a try and since the boxes may be difficult to move when full and possibly wet, why not put them in some of those plastic mushroom crates (I get them from the market) to grow and move in then with help dig your planting hole and carefully lift the cardboard container into the hole. Think I will try this with lettuce and other brassicas! Let's swap results later.

[CaptainBurrito]

I've done this before. I placed mine on a serving tray to solve the issue of the bottom giving way. I was growing chinese greens like bok choy so i sowed the seeds individually and most sprouted. The problem is the roots grow into the cardboard so ripping the cardboard base also disrupted the roots. Why rip the base? Because the roots do grow through eventually but the cardboard does kind of block them as they meander around it. Maybe creating some holes in the base beforehand will solve that problem.

In the end i prefer small pots in those shuttle trays as you get a nice plug plant that is easy to handle and transplant and the pot can be reused.

I think there is a video of this in youtube of a welsh guy doing the same.