Use Carpet as Garden Mulch

By John Krill
Published on March 1, 1972
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Place your wheelbarrow near each freshly-cut-out square and dig a 15
Place your wheelbarrow near each freshly-cut-out square and dig a 15" deep hole at every location.
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Cut one-foot squares from the rug.
Cut one-foot squares from the rug.
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Except for pulling an occasional weed from the squares, a carpet-based garden mulch requires little care. And your plants will thrive.
Except for pulling an occasional weed from the squares, a carpet-based garden mulch requires little care. And your plants will thrive.
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You're now ready to place cucumber or melon seeds or pepper or tomato sets in each location.
You're now ready to place cucumber or melon seeds or pepper or tomato sets in each location.
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Remember to leave a broad margin of carpet around the edges on which the cucumber, melon, and other vines may spread.
Remember to leave a broad margin of carpet around the edges on which the cucumber, melon, and other vines may spread.

If you’re young and lazy, old and feeble, or just plain busy, you can reap a rich garden harvest on slim
expenditures of time and physical exertion by putting a rug
in your produce patch at garden mulch. What’s more, this gardening method
requires no tilling of the soil, no cultivating, no weeding,
and no machinery in the form of tractors or gas powered

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