Animal bedding makes a terrific mulch to keep soil warm throughout wineter and help the plants break dormancy faster in the springtime.
VIDEO: Mulching our Garlic With Animal Bedding (Pine Shavings)
Animal bedding makes a terrific mulch to keep soil warm throughout wineter and help the plants break dormancy faster in the springtime.
will stay in place on a windy day?
I use leaves from the yard.
I prefer farm and fleet the prices are better and better customer service
sugar cane mulch is also great, been using it for years.
I was thinking to also put a small hoop house over my garlic in the spring to start the garlic earlier, good idea?
Does pine not cause acidity in the soil?
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Whenever I am in the garden and see a plane, I always have to watch it too to make sure it's not going to drop a bomb. Love your videos by the way, they have helped me so much.
Would it be bad to use the pine shavings from my chicken coop when I change it out?
What about Aspen shavings?
I mulched 6 weeks ago with leaves, currently it's cozy under 14 inches of fresh snow.
I have chickens ,ducks and geese and the only bedding I use for them is the same one that you are using for your garlic and I also like to compost it
I used a bag of chopped alfalfa hay that my horse didn't finish.
Shouldn’t you go ahead and mulch the whole bed for the winter.?
@ Luke: I have a question! What is your thoughts on comfrey and string nettles? Some people say it is good for garden and other people say it bad.
How do you keep the shavings from blowing away in windy areas?
I did that this year because I couldn't find straw. Unfortunately, a family of racoons dug up the whole bed. I was able to replant most of the garlic, but now the shavings are all mixed up in the soil. What a mess.
I added leaves 3 weeks ago in Wisconsin.. hope it is ok.
The weather has been crazy in Wv we have only really had one snow that was about 2 inches and then a couple days of very light flurries! Normally we have snow by Halloween but we have had 70° weather a couple weeks ago it's insane
Weather is a mess here in coastal Delaware – high of mid-sixties today, and high of 40 tomorrow. Nuts!
Hello. Here were i live, everybody says that pine shavings would turn the soil acidic. I have it for free, my husband works with pine, but i use it only on paths.
I just saw a Facebook post about the giant crimson mater seeds!!! Very interested!!
Can you do a video on root crops tricks/tips? Every year I seem to have problems with those not getting up to size. Or They seem to need a lot more time than a seed packet says. Beets/carrots… I also have some trouble with onions. These things are frustrating, because I seem to have luck with the more “difficult crops”, and a hard time with the “easy” things
Hey Luke,
In putting in the new cores, is now too early for spring garden?
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If we got rain in the winter, is it okay to use animal bedding? Thanks!
That was fun.
How does it not blow away??
does the pine lower the PH at all? what about pine needles?