Your Opinion matters. Added Raised Garden TEST Bed with WOOD CHIPS . What Happens if I Mix/Bury Wood Chips in? No TILL Testbed #2. building & growing healthy soil.
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Your Opinion matters. Added Raised Garden TEST Bed with WOOD CHIPS . What Happens if I Mix/Bury Wood Chips in? No TILL Testbed #2. building & growing healthy soil.
I am looking forward to the results 😉
Me too.
No rocks you lucky lucky man! 🙂
I did an experiment with mix of sawdust and natural soil + worm compost. Iplanted tomatoes and the ones planted in any soil mixed with sawdust almost grew nothing. Just spraut and then slowly die. Even where the proportion was 1-1-1 (soil-compost-sawdust) the result was the same, very bad looking seedlings that wont grow at all.
Do you think Paul G. watches any of your videos, Mark??? If he does, I wonder what he would say… I'll say this, you"re videos are among the most educational regarding growing our own food!
Thank you for sharing, very interested in the outcome.
We hope to be doing some of the same soon.
Can't wait to see! Another great video!
I'm loving these tests you're doing! looking forward to the results.
Interesting! If it is a fungal issue you could try to jumpstart the fungus in the woodchips by inoculating your beds. Easy inoculation involves putting some old mushrooms in a 5 gallon bucket full of water, add a cup of sugar, stir and let sit 24 hours then use it to water whatever you want to inoculate.
will be watching – all the best
LOL love the morning teeth vs. slippery clay analogy really does bring the point home. I wonder if Elaine Ingham should use it. Good thing I haven't had my supper yet but will be thinking of this when I brush my teeth.
Really enjoying all your experiments, Mark, and learning a lot. I'm even copying some of your ideas in my own garden. Thank you for doing this! ~ Lisa
Huh, learned something today, that heavy bacterial load was what makes clay such a slippery mess in the rain.
Looking forward to see the outcome of these experiments. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Just a comment about the slippery clay, I used to deliver furniture in a box truck in the Tallahassee area(early 80s), all of the back roads in the forest were red clay and when it rained it was like driving on snow covered roads. That's all, hahahaha.
Thank you very much Mark, am learning lots from your videos.
Thanks for sharing! Hope everything works out.
Love experiments! Looking forward to the results. Thank you for doing this for those of us who don't have the resources to perform more experiments.
I am planning on rotating my potato patch every year for a 3 year rotation here in zone 3. Is sugar snap peas a good cover for the patches during years of rest in the summer and then winter rye in the fall?
I am pretty sure that Paul Gautschi of Back to Eden does NOT advocate incorporating uncomposted chips into the soil. I've tried it and it was a total fail that cost me time and money. Nitrogen is bound up in the wood and not yet bioavailable. Same with all the other nutrients in the chips except that those that wash out will be in such high quantities that you can over-nutrify your soil. Now I only incorporate chips that have been hot-composted with horse manure for many months. Had I listened to experienced growers I would have known that the problem of raw chips in soil is considered conventional wisdom. If you have success with this experiment you'll have some explaining to do. Good luck.
Thank you for doing this experiment. An awesome addition would be to experiment with how much nitrogen it would take from different nitrogen sources to level things out to make the bed usable when everything is breaking down. I've wondered if it's possible without the plants suffering too much
We just moved into a rental and the whole yard had been sprayed with Round up. What you recommend (our any of you vviewers) to restore the soil. Right now everything is growing in pots to keep it out of the soil. Thanks Mark, love viewing all you experimenting. Such wisdom in what your trying.
where do you get all the wood chips from?