Personally saw results of wood chip gardening and wanted to share.
VIDEO: Wood Chip Gardening Soil Condition
Personally saw results of wood chip gardening and wanted to share.
Personally saw results of wood chip gardening and wanted to share.
Personally saw results of wood chip gardening and wanted to share.
Experimenting with this method myself and this first year did not do very well but I can see here in a couple of years from now it will prob be wonderful. I had a problem with slugs for one prob and then I don.t think I followed exactly the correct procedure of planting but I still remain hopeful with this method..
Thanks for sharing this. It think it is worth keeping in mind that when you first start with wood chips you should have a good rich layer of compost underneath just to keep things going until the woodchips break down.
That's funny – the video I'm uploading right now has a short clip of me digging my hand into the soil produced by broken down wood chips in my garden. I couldn't agree more with your conclusion. Wood chips make a great mulch, and make great soil after they break down. Thanks!
I had some struggles starting plants in wood chips. This was in 4" to 6" of wood chips aged about a year, placed over a layer of composted manure on top of cardboard. The plants would get yellow and die. I suspect a lack of nitrogen. I used fertilizer and eventually there were some very successful plants in the wood chip garden beds. Next year I will grow bush beans as nitrogen fixers to try to improve the bed. I prefer to grow organically. My preference now is to use leaf mulch.
You bet it works! Check out the video I posted yesterday, an update on my Back to Eden garden. Phenomenal results. (The soil in your video is amazing.)
Wood chips, who woulda thought,….but, alas buyin' 'em pre-packaged in some store just isn't sustainable, better to look for fallen twigs and mulch with 'em, its a long, slow process, but from the look of your friend's flower garden, well worth the wait!
I'm starting this also…last year we started
I`ve been using wood chips since last year, since I got so bored of weeding.
After a while I found there were many benefits with the method. I really got surprized over how much moisture the chips can mantain. Even in bone dry weather for weeks, there were plenty of moisture in the stuff, just 5 centimeters below the surface. I see there are big differences in the Ph-value between hard and softwood here. I need to lime the softwood much to get the right balance in Ph.
Regards, Halvor.
This is good to see, I'm seriously considering a wood chip garden addition to my place. Thank you for showing us this Jay. Wayne
Really sold on wood chips here as well…
Nice one Jay 🙂
Any thing that is organic that you add to the soil will make the soil much richer and less compact. Fresh wood chips do require nitrogen to break down which does remove it from the soil. That is why I cover my garden with leaves every year. They protect the soil over winter and the leaves on the bottom break down and I turn them under in the spring. When organic matter breaks down in the soil it leaves air pockets where the roots can continue growing which makes for healthy and productive plants.
"nice, loose ans moist" I'm into that