Sheet mulching with cardboard is the secret to fewer weeds and fuss-free plant-bed prep.

Do you have excess cardboard lying around your home? Rather than throwing it away, consider using it in your garden. Cardboard is made from wood fibers and processed into a thin, strong sheet. It is ...

Cardboard is biodegradable and safe to compost, but it can only be recycled a limited number of times before it becomes too degraded to be remade into new paper products. However, cardboard has ...

Across the UK, piles of delivery boxes are quietly replacing weedkiller and plastic pots in back gardens. From no-dig beds to free seedling containers, how far can cardboard go? Cardboard delivery ...

12:49, Thu, Feb 5, 2026 Updated: 12:51, Thu, Feb 5, 2026 A gardener has shared a “clever” alternative use for cardboard packaging that would otherwise be thrown out or banished to the recycling bin.