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Found shingles
Made my way over to Habitat for Humanity's ReStore yesterday. Found 3 bundles of shingles still in the packaging. 15 dollars for the whole thing. Going to slide these slightly under the outside of the boxes. It forms a perfect mowing edge and won't allow any grass or weeds to come up. Then cover up with a nice mulch of some sort. Worms love to hang out under them too.

llama momma
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Re: Found shingles
Will slugs like them too?llama momma wrote: Worms love to hang out under them too.![]()
Re: Found shingles
I've used shingles before and didn't notice any problems with slugs. You made a good point though.
I'll make a mental note to look for them.

I'll make a mental note to look for them.
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Re: Found shingles
Had me worried for a moment LLM.... I have had a case of shingles for nearly 6 months now and when I saw your topic I panicked
I would not wish these things on anyone. I am slowly getting rid of them at last, but it has been a long painful process to say the least.
Good on the "shingle" find and sounds like a great creeping grass and weed solving solution.

Good on the "shingle" find and sounds like a great creeping grass and weed solving solution.
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Re: Found shingles
Yes, my first thought was human shingles too, bnoles. A friend had it and it was so painful.bnoles wrote:Had me worried for a moment LLM.... I have had a case of shingles for nearly 6 months now and when I saw your topic I panickedI would not wish these things on anyone. I am slowly getting rid of them at last, but it has been a long painful process to say the least.
Good on the "shingle" find and sounds like a great creeping grass and weed solving solution.
Roof shingles are great for killing weeds by suffocation and darkness.
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bnoles
Sorry you are battling the other kind of shingles. I hope your ordeal comes to a fast end. My mother had it years ago and I vividly remember her suffering. It is such an awful ordeal. Get well soon.
Kelejan
I wonder if anything can leach out of the shingles? Some of my boxes are 8 inches deep, others 12 inches. When I pull out plants the roots stay put inside the box. Hopefully anything leaching from the shingles goes straight down and away. The new asparagus(w/potential long roots) box I'll probably skip the shingles and surround with deep flakes of hay and straw. That stuff suppresses real well too. But it's a very bumpy walk around the box till it breaks down and becomes a lovely mat.
Sorry you are battling the other kind of shingles. I hope your ordeal comes to a fast end. My mother had it years ago and I vividly remember her suffering. It is such an awful ordeal. Get well soon.
Kelejan
I wonder if anything can leach out of the shingles? Some of my boxes are 8 inches deep, others 12 inches. When I pull out plants the roots stay put inside the box. Hopefully anything leaching from the shingles goes straight down and away. The new asparagus(w/potential long roots) box I'll probably skip the shingles and surround with deep flakes of hay and straw. That stuff suppresses real well too. But it's a very bumpy walk around the box till it breaks down and becomes a lovely mat.
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Re: Found shingles
Most common shingles or shim stock is simply kiln dried and untreated.
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Re: Found shingles
nice find and good idea
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Re: Found shingles
That's comforting camp. I got the shingle-leaching concern from a rain barrel article. Bottom line I think it will be ok too.
Landarch the shingle idea came from something I read on the internet. I really like the weed free, grass free edge and the riding mower can get close without damaging the boxes.
Landarch the shingle idea came from something I read on the internet. I really like the weed free, grass free edge and the riding mower can get close without damaging the boxes.
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Re: Found shingles
I use an edger to cut around by boxes to keep infiltrating grass under control. I do it at least twice a year. That works great too. Then I use the weed whacker to keep the grass close to the boxes trimmed.
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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