This video explains how I prepare our garden beds with horse manure and this time I’m using woodchip as a top mulch.
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VIDEO: How I Prepare My Vegetable Garden Beds Using Wood Chip
This video explains how I prepare our garden beds with horse manure and this time I’m using woodchip as a top mulch.
Mark, thank you for creating and sharing these videos. I learn something new every time I tune in. I like your approach to weeds . . . just turning them into the soil. About that nut grass, it's a pain. Back when I had lawns, I struggled with eradicating just a few of them. The nut grass won; and, I sold the house. ha ha. Anyhow, regarding wood chip mulch and the concern over nitrogen-loss: I learned from other gardeners on YouTube, like that guy who does no-dig (Charles Dowding) – there will be a minor loss of nitrogen; however, it only occurs where the chips touch the growing medium – not at the roots. Any nitrogen loss is returned as the chips break down. Between seasons, remove the chips, tend to soil, etc., and return the chips. If the chips (or sawdust, as I saw one guy test) is turned into the soil, then that's where nitrogen is robbed. The guy who turned sawdust into the soil noticed poor growth, yellow leaves, and little to no yield until the following season, after the worms, et. al. had worked their magic on sawdust.
Mark bro, I know this video is old, but advice for horse poop, it needs piling up on it's own pile (with other fresh compostable materials is fine, like hay or leaves etc.) and aging because they use WORMING medicine in the horses and it kills the precious garden worms if the poo is too fresh, and keep it away from your regular compost heap until it is aged also, ya don't wanna kill the compost worms either dude!
If I don’t want to use blood and bone what else can I use? Mushroom compost?..
When you were bent over there for a few seconds I thought you had a man bun… LOL
Thank you Sir. This will help me alot…
I've heard horror stories about folks unknowingly getting Grazon-treated manure & hay for their gardens. It can absolutely ruin compost & soil for months.
Hi Mark, What is that potassium fertilizer called “blood and vein”?
tell ya your vids back in this one are good ! yet wow you have come a long way as an actor !!! Good on ya mate !
Hi Mark, It has long been an idea of my own that a lot of vegetables do much better if you hoe around them and airiate the soil. Mulch does great also. Last summer 2020 my squash had a yellow tint to the leaves and I mixed pure nitrogen and pure potash and liberaly broadcast that over my rows of squash, and in just three days they were beautiful green covered with blossoms and growing like gangbusters. Jessie from Arkansas USA
U r great…thank you
Nice
You are the best! Am I the only one who noticed how muscular Mark is? Is that from gardening?
What's the name of your digging tool?
Might give this a go with pumpkins 🙂 It's kind of like a self-composting, rich rejuvenating mulch!
Mark, I have been watching for some time and learn a great deal from your videos.
I am keeping you in prayer for whatever is ailing you now. I hope you feel better soon.
You look like big Z here from the movie surfs up!
Thank you.
Hi there Mark . Im new to your channel and new to gardning i have beîng watching youre you tube videos lately any time i have a spare moment every day. Do you have a video where you explain the differences between menures like cow , horse or chicken and are there plants that for example need chicken menure instead of cow menure. so i know wich menure to get . Please don´t mind the writing mistakes . Greetings all the way out of Finland , where we verry soon go into snowy icey winter . Love youre videos and learning yes in babysteps but never too old to learn 🙂
Loved this, have been following for a while now and Iust admit I think this is one I have really enjoyed the most. Thank you Mark for all the time, love and energy you have given novice gardeners like myself. You're a bloody champion mate! Good on ya.
Thank you. I like all your videos!!!!
Hi Guy
I really like the information. That you give and have in your videos.
On thing that I have had fun with that I have not seen you cover. Although I have seen you talk about problems that could be cause by it.
That is planting with the moon. And the signs as the moon go through the zodiac.
Oh now I ma not a know it all about it, but like I say it is fun and funny how it works
Mark by putting the horse manure down first you compensate for the wood chips I knew this for my flower garden to always put my horse manure which I age a little first before laying down the wood chip so you don’t loose the nitrogen.
The blood and bone won’t hurt….
I live near a racetrack so I get for free, just put in my one toner, and free wood chip from my recycling centre from my council.
It’s a shame we don’t live closer mate, you could have mine for free !!
Here watching in 2022
Can i buy wood chips from the big box store that says all natural?