Gardening with Rabbits
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I have decided to use cardboard to cover the garden. I am going to put plastic around all four sides of the garden to kill weeds, and bury it I think and just keep around the edge. I went and looked at different areas around my yard where I have started compost bins or where I dumped piles of rabbit bedding and another area where I started a bed for lettuce a couple of years ago. I put a lot, of compost there, and then the next year I planted asparagus there and get a little, but I noticed the dirt is just as black as can be and in the weeds there are the biggest strawberry plants I ever saw. The leaves from the apple tree fall there and just go into the dirt, so I want to use all the rabbit bedding and old half finished compost. The problem is most of the rabbit poop, is mixed in with straw. That straw is where I have caused most of my problems. I take straw and mulch and it sprouts. My question is should I spread the straw stuff on the ground first and then the cardboard or put it on top of the cardboard? I thought maybe if it sprouted and was on top, then next spring I could till it in or cover with tarps and kill the weeds until time to plant. I am not sure, but DS is bring some cardboard home from work. I have a lot of what I think is wild geranium weed and most of it is around the edge, but now growing everywhere.