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Over the past few years, we’ve been covering our entire growing area with thick layers of organic plant-based mulch. And so far, we’ve not yet had to pay for any of it. So, since we receive a lot of questions about how / where we get our mulch for free, we decided to do our best to answer that question in this video.
Probably the most popular example of a free wood chip service, is: https://getchipdrop.com/ We’ve not used them ourselves, but I *hear* that they’re a good option.
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Our Deep-Mulch Vegetable Garden After TWO MONTHS of Complete Neglect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1TJwbxr6E
Companion Planting Asparagus and Strawberries (No-till, Ruth Stout)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc92S7UQD5k
Spring Prep in our “No-Work” Garden, and an EASIER way to Spread Mulch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJtNJqKM34
Preparing our Hugelkultur Garden for Winter: Chop and Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VIpTac1NiA
The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfi-n0Oq38E
337 lbs of Potatoes! NO digging, NO watering, and VERY LITTLE work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlratwBT5OI
Planting Potatoes in a Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden (QUICK and EASY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dexx9kKVWeo
Results from our NO DIG and NO WATER potato experiment (Ruth Stout Method)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0Q2YlQOUU
Companion Planting Carrots, Radishes and Onions in a Ruth Stout (HAY-ONLY) Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkn5b0jHhE
Results and Lessons Learned from our Carrot, Onion, and Radish Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2tNfgW8Ug
Plant Hardiness Zone, Rainfall, and Other Important Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJbE0ZTA8
Winter Ruth Stout Permaculture Update and HAY vs STRAW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-A1gNNjen0
Does adding fresh grass clippings provide more nitrogen to garden or robs it from the soil?
Food for thought.. Makes so much sense !.
I've seen an ad for waste fruit pulp from some bottling company. I had a tiny garden but no soil, so I put an ad on Craigslist targeting tree services. I got a truckload of leaves and chips within a week (much to my wife's dismay). It worked well. I live nowhere near the country. Tree services here paid (at that time) about $150 to dump their truck. I saved them that plus the fuel, as I was a lot closer than any of the landfills.
So if I have an existing garden and I want to switch to Ruth Stout, I just put hay and other mulches over?
The plants are built from the soil, everyone wants burn wood, the soil turns to sand
Heck yes!
Most of the hay around here has a lot of Bahia grass seeds. Do we need to use hay that doesn’t have seeds?
2:50 My husband used to have a nice arrangement with local wood chippers where they’d gladly dump their loads of wood chips on our property. I’d much rather have hay so I’m going to see if he’ll check around and get some old stuff no one wants.
I live in upstate New York, and it's crazy, but I can never find anyone willing to give their hay away for free. you're lucky
great insight to cheaper methods of mulching thanks love your videos
Just a safety tip – (wet) moldy hay should be handled wearing a mask! Those spores can get into your lungs and cause problems.. please model and advocate mask wearing for handling hay and straw. Love your videos, I have learned much that I am going to implement in my own garden, THANKS!
Supermarkets might be interested in getting rid of produce without paying for removal. Might also apply to restaurants. Meal remains might have to be composted.
Love the shrug 4:30 ( also good info, thanks)
5:50 Well… Aaackchyually… the kind of mulch you use does matter. What you say is comforting though. I get that.
2:15 you mulched that grub
i want to switch to Ruth stout method of gardening from my traditional garden but how would i be able to do that. my garden is just a plot of dirt that has been farmed for years and i think it is not producing as well as it used to.
Thank you
You guys need to round up a bucket to collect all of those tomatoes…
https://vsaduidoma.com/en/2009/09/17/o-polze-rastenij-sideratov/
You forgot to mention using compost as mulch. Nice video.
The Tomato is back from the ded
How long will it take for the chemicals on mulch to break down?
Have you had any issues with Herbicide in the hay? That happened to me one year and my plants all had atrophy.
I started my Ruth Stout gardening last year with fabulous results. Have you had an increase in voles, I have. Maybe due a vid on perceived or real problems of deep mulch. Mold/ weed seeds/snakes/moles/voles/rats/snakes or anything else that prop up.
Do you also keep and use diseased plant parts, like powdery mildew, blight, etc?
Great video. I watch you guys and the self sufficient me person. Both of you say the best mulch is what you have.
Its a perception people made themselves that kitchen scraps dont look clean.
What I'll prefer personally is to put our kitchen scraps inside the mulch because i think due to heat and moisture evaporation it can lose some of its nutrition and Nitrogen (idk tho) but its best as wet as possible