Right off the bat, I can't think of a way that cardboard could be used successfully when in direct contact with wet potting medium for long periods of time. Cardboard is a great product to use in lasagna gardening or as a 'brown' in the compost heap. It decomposes pretty rapidly when kept moist.

When the mail lady says " you must be slacking, no bubble envie today" when you are stopping at all the stores just to make sure you havent "missed anything".. when you pull out a coat you havent worn since last season, and lo and behold, there are seeds in the pocket. When your kids have friends over, and they ask you if you are going to put the seed mess away... When the container you were using to store seeds becomes 5 or 6 containers..Ok, ok...maybe 7 ( LOL) When a seed catalog comes in the mail, and your highlighter runs out of ink.

Lucky you! I love punkins in all their forms; big ole vines, flowers, lil punkinettes, big punkins, decorative punkins, punkin pie, punkin seeds...& squishy punkin compost!

Looks like the gremlins got to our site too - this post is just showing up. Satine, sounds like we have similar plans. I'm all on one floor but I did straighten up the front. Now the back, where my bedroom hangs out, is a different story. I might start that now because I want to get out front to weed the beds out front, on tomorrow. If I had done it today, I think I would have been knocked out by one of my trash cans. That wind was something else - especially last night. I must have a wind tunnel in my backyard. There is an open breezeway between my house and an attached storage shed, and EVERYTHING blows right through. Even if the trash cans and recyle bins are tightly covered, I end up picking everything all over the yard, the next day. Once, all the recycle found a way to jump the fence and end up in my front yard. SO, Sunday will be my day to do yardwork. It's supposed to be pretty nice - like today, but without the wind. Also need to finish taxes - YUK. I always wait 'til the last minute because I always owe. One day I'll figure out a way not to do that, and still be able to live decently throughout the year. Oh well, someone has to bail the country out. May as well do my part. How is everyone else doing? gneegirl