Cardboard (to get rid of weed) + add woodchip on top?

We have a garden full of weeds + a trampoline that we want to keep.

I did want to put grass down, but that isn't practical because of the trampoline - that takes up a big chunk of our small garden.

On youtube, I've seen videos showing people put down cardboard to suffocate the weeds + add woodchip on top. This would be ideal for us - giving a soft safe surface for the kids.

Any thoughts about this? A good idea to do?

One video said that doing this gets tons of slugs! Which, I'm not worried about - but the wife is!!

 

Yes it would work. A friend of mine uses cardboard generously in her huge garden to good effect
I would prefer using a membrane topped with woodchip though; the cardboard rots quite quickly

 

any idea where to get woodchip from?
some guides i read... i need a LOT
i thought it would be mega cheap...
i try googling and am not finding anywhere?
thanks

and membrane... actually... i think this will be our best option tbh

 

We can get it cheap from the Council down here. It should be available locally though enginestar at reasonable cost if you ask around
You could use just the membrane under the trampoline surely

 

thks
i'll ask around

i'm on a mission to get the whole garden down - including under the trampoline

 

Becarefull with some wood chips as you could get slinters (depand on wood chips) you may be better looking at wood shaving

 

Agree with JWK about bark chippings

 

B&Q sell bags of bark chippings especially for play areas etc. They also do them in different colours eg brown/orange/red/green.