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Message: [QUOTE="Oliver Buckle, post: 206259, member: 12649"] My experience with carpet is that if it is made of natural material it decomposes and you can simply dig it in eventually. Any artificial threads in it however remain and can be a pain, the cardboard option sounds better. As a plan to get some use with minimum visits how about this... Lay cardboard with a second layer overlapping, but leave a small access to the surface every couple of feet, put a seed potato there and then cover with bark. The potato will grow through the bark and smother any weeds that manage to do the same, if you have plenty of rain it will probably do fairly well, but under those conditions it will grow across the surface, rather than down, and when you lift the cardboard your crop will be visible half embedded in the ground, you simply loosen with a hand fork and pick them up, you won't need access between planting and cropping. On the other hand, how about putting a door in the back of the shed? :) [/QUOTE]