This is how i live my life, however, I either have enough cardboard or enough chips, never both. So I either have loose sheets of cardboard laid out around or I have piles of chips hanging around.

I usually do double layers of cardboard with either green cuttings underneath or with compost/ fertilizer. Its also a great way to manage paths and aisles. Just keep adding more cardboard and mulch. Also, newspaper can stand in for cardboard. Its mostly soy inks so not much to worry about.

If you aren’t adding a massive amount of carbon to your soils, your soils are probably starving for it. Just think about how much leaf and wood rubbish comes into forested systems.