This video is all about using mulch in the vegetable garden to build healthy soil and grow healthier vegetables. Mulch is a wonderful resource for organic vegetable gardening because it is an easy way to apply organic material to the ground without needing to dig it in and destroy the soil. Here I give you an overview of how I mulch in the garden, looking at both annual and perennial vegetables. For Patrons I have more information about other types of mulching, for example my Back to Eden experiments.
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What a palaver putting down straw and taking it off the next day.
What if it rains, you end up with a soggy mess? What a pain. What's wrong with a membrane
and simply leave it there till the frost has gone?????
I'm just about to plant a young loganberry at the back of my garden. Would it be beneficial to mulch around this to help it start off?
Thank you Huw. Love the cardboard/woodchip and temporary mulching ideas!
Ano people have probly asked you many times but how many hours per day you spend in garden
Just great to know what other people do with the time as well
Thanks for the advice. Will be putting the cardboard wood chip to use now
Hope one day I'll get the honor of meeting you huw. Your videos are so informative
Morning Huw. I am making some new raised beds and have a lot of pine and fir trees that we need to prune. We have a garden shredder. I was wondering if it was okay to put a thickish layer on top of these beds to hopefully break down in time for planting next spring?
Huw: I want to buy your book… How can I contact you? I live in Thailand
Hi Huw, nice video, very interesting and inspiring, but I don't understand why do you remove the cardboard in Spring?
When we moved in I was worried about the tall mini forst behind our property and all the leaves that come from it. Now I appreciate about 5m³ of leaves every year. I keep them in a big pile in autum and mix them with greens for my compost, use them as top mulch or sheet mulch to kill weeds. I even started offering the numbers to dump their share of the leaves on our property. They are still confused since everybody else is quite annoyed by them. They don't realize how much minerals those trees pull from the ground that I can put on my beds
If, like me, you live in an area where birds dig up your woodchip and mulch: Buy Jute or Coconut fiber netting used for holding top soil in pond and landscape construction and place it as a final layer of mulch. You can plant into the holes of the net, keeps the mulch in place and works as an additional cover. To flip the bed, take it off, apply compost and mulch and back on top.
Off topic. Any recommendations for an online Apk/downloadable gardener's digital diary to maintain a record of all sowing, planting, harvesting ? I am very hit & miss with my planning & sowing & I want to get more organized ! It's never too late .. ..
Carnage!
Thanks again Huw! My son and I keep refering back to veg in one bed. It's lovely to have a book of which the lay-out appeals to my 8 yr old too!
what is the use of that carton sheet
What happens to the cardboard afterwards?
Great video
Helpful!
What would recommend to add to beds in autumn for next year to improve and replenish the soil with nutrients and organic matter, other than homemade compost?
Do you have 'devil's finger' problem?
They started growing in my place, not sure why, but google says it grows on rotting wood, moist area
Thanks for the info really appreciate it…your garden is very beautiful!
Thank you for sharing. Very much appreciated. You are an exceptional of garden maintenance. It is your passion that makes the difference.
1……….Is there a reason why you dont woodchip mulch all your beds?
How do you mulch an area covered with wood chips? Remove the woodchips?
Is there a change required underneath (or above) the woodchips each year? (remove woodchips and mulch then put woodchips back on?)
I have most everything under wood chips and was wondering how to treat this situation with mulch……or not.
2………….I have an abundance of green garden waste from my brassicas etc…..I just put them into one large compost bin alltogether. I dont add any browns as I dont have any browns as I would have in the fall (dry leaves).
How do you treat your green waste at this time of year? Just pile them up?
With browns (which browns)?
Add browns months later?
Do you turn your greens?
In your compost videos you mix leaves with greens but that is in the fall season. What about now?
Thank you again for sharing.
Blessings to you and your followers
If you use wood chips as mulch like I did for my summer raised beds, do you remove them before adding a layer of compost and add them back on top or would you add the compost over the wood chips? I hear that wood chips should not be mixed into the soil. Any direction provided would be highly appreciated.
Would you recommend regularly using hedge clippings as a mulch? I basically use the hedge clippings from my hedge to rot down on the garden and eventually build up the soil along with compost from my compost bin to grow potatoes, peas or beans.
Hello , im from spain, my english is not so good…. can you tell me what is the second option you say after adding compost in the minute 2:221, it seems ends in manual, tnaks a lot!!!!!
I find watering around the plant and soaking the cardboard first cuts down the amount of water I need at the end of the process. I use a wheelbarrow or a little paddling pool to soak the cardboard.