OK, so Buena has a big garden, and I don’t. So I don’t necessarily know what I’m talking about. But, what can I say, I’m a scientist! So I believe in my ideas. Here’s one.

Buena is growing corn and lettuce in raised beds to keep the snails away. Most of those raised beds are made of wood–but recently Buena ran out of space and decided to plant lettuce in a box made of corrugated cardboard, surrounded by plastic tape. Yes, folks, it does indeed look pretty awful. Well, as it happens some of the lettuce seeds fell into the holes at the edge of the corrugation…and they sprouted.

My idea is to used this as a simple way to start seeds. One could pack the cardboard with, for example, tree seeds, then plant the edge of the cardboard in the ground.

No, wait…for tree seeds, perhaps it would be interesting to watch the roots grow. What if one could find plastic-backed corrugated cardboard, for starting the seeds while watching the roots expand within the cardboard. Alternatively, maybe a long piece of cardboard could serve as a sort of wick, to allow the tree access to water at levels far below its own root system?

For garden seeds, this might represent an easy way to plant mixes in ordered groups. We could sell a stretch of cardboard containing various kinds of seeds in attractive groups. The cardboard could just be planted directly to create a nice planter box.

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