Pt 3 Breaking WOOD CHIPS 2nd RULE. Can I Mix/ Bury Fresh Wood Chips Into My Raised Bed Gardening Soil Building. This will be Helpful for beginners for gardening 101.
VIDEO: Pt 3 Breaking WOOD CHIPS 2nd RULE. Can I Mix Fresh Wood Chips Into My Raised Bed Gardening Soil.
Pt 3 Breaking WOOD CHIPS 2nd RULE. Can I Mix/ Bury Fresh Wood Chips Into My Raised Bed Gardening Soil Building. This will be Helpful for beginners for gardening 101.
I learn so much from your videos. Thank you!
It seems there is so much that occurs when different types of saprophytic fungus are in the picture breaking down the woodchips, mycorrhizal fungus doing its thing and organisms we don’t even know about yet. I really enjoy watching these observations. Getting back to the saprophytic fungus: I bet they don’t require as much nitrogen to break down the carbon as we think they do. Really enjoy working with mulched and woodchips on my farm.
Thanks!
I would say that your rey is N difisent but that can change as I said in a prives coment it will look a lot diferent next year but it will be interesting to see how the rey afects the decomposion off the wood chips
I like to let my wood chips decompose over a year mixt with grass cuttjngs and its almost soil in spring and I use that as a mulsh
I love the treils you are doing and wait for the results saves me alot of time
Excellent video ! @ 2:36 shows a root structure second to none. I think you have a winner there Mark !
Amazing work…thank so much for sharing…I covered my backyard in chips and now we have a massive worm colony living quite nicely…
I've heard of wood chips being used as a hydroponic media, with absolutely no mention of nitrogen tie up. I think you're correct when you say that when air cannot get down there, is when problems arise. Anaerobic bacteria are responsible for denitrification, which turns nitrate or ammonia back into nitrogen gas, which can no longer supply our plants nutritional requirement. I laid down wood chips as mulch a few years ago, and noticed sweeter leaves, and significantly better drought tolerance! Interested in further results, thanks for the experiments and videos, I really enjoy them!
Very nice video Mark. I would like to see you plant a whole garden row with thick wood chips and cover crop them with high nitrogen plants to aid in breaking down the wood chips faster. I saw another farmer mix six cover crops together to build soil but he didn’t have great before and after videos of soils. Great work n have a happy Memorial Day!
I have planted a few basil seedlings directly into woodchips, no soil at all. They are alive still and might have started growing a little, they aren't too green though, but they already looked that way prior to transplanting. I'm havin fun here. You have been teaching me tons and now I am feeling free to experiment. So, thank you! I have been getting sunflower seeds into ground with other plants, adding strawberries to multiple garden beds…thank you again, for the knowledge on how soil works.
Those roots look great and the soil looks nice and dark
Thank you for another good video Mark
A year ago l planted a rejuvenated seed ( not sure what it was ) Would that be as beneficial as winter rye?
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing! Always appreciate your videos.
Glad I found your channel. You are answering many questions I have had about building soil. I have heavy clay here in Georgia and recently worked some wood chips into it out of desperation to get it opened up. I see now that I need to plant a nitrogen fixer into that soil. I also intend to plant some sunflowers and get some penetration into that heavy clay. The Dock vid you did was gold for me as it seems to be a prolific native here.
Question off topic. I am using winter rye in my walk ways in NH. Can I keep mowing it down during the ground season then when I cover crop my rows let it grow out? Or will mowing it kill it?
Hi Mark; How long do I dare wait to plant my potatoes after tilling in my winter rye in the spring so as not to loose to much of the soil life fungi and microbs. I assume the sooner the better but how long before I loose to much soil life is my question I guess.
Hi Mark, were you inspired to do this experiment because of the German/Eastern European method called Hügelkultur?
I'm surprised the winter rye isn't bigger as of May 20th.
Keep them coming mark. I am always shouting at hubby who has to do the planting for me, because of my bad back, not to mix the wood chips in….lol. It will be nice to know if it turns out not to be so harmful. Regards 🙂
I really am enjoying this series of videos. The explanations are very much appreciated. My soil is sandin upstate NY. How would the wood chip idea work in this type of soil?
Bob
What do you think about using sawdust from a horse farm. I have access to the sawdust/poo and not chips.
We've got to appreciate work like this. Thank you for always being honest in your testing and sharing of information, successful or not!
winter rye is truly a beastly plant lol. I need to eat more rye in my diet. I would love it if you did experiments on grain. I know your a fruit and veggie man. Small crop grains is something I've been interested in adding to the box for years. I keep thinking has to be a way to make it profitable and good for the farm. Like cutting and using a vacuum for harvest. Cutting just the tops and then knocking it over for hay and burying it in fall leaves. I started with some corn a long time ago. The kind of grits corn. The problem with that is at that time we didn't have a wind buffer up. Had some folks around us doing GMO corn. Spray drift issues and we had the corn at the edge of the field. using it as a kind of first season pioneer crop after broad forking. You can put a lot of compost down with corn and then just open the ground around it. put the transplant in and it goes without issue. That's how we expanded our beds because it was directly into a cash crop. Gmo ruin that though because of the drift before the trees grew in. Anyways I was wondering any chance you can start talking about grain?
3:55 imagine if you had done a fall leave bed for the woodchips. Also if you have broad forked under the area you put the woodchip pile. like a ghetto lasagna bed. If that area doesn't need to be productive the first year. Example Pioneer type planting system. A fast way to get a jump on 5 years worth of organic growth. a huge thing for a vegan farmer. or if you are a dairy farmer easily way for you to diversifying your farm. we need to get you a nerd on your farm. get these papers published. save the world
Just out of curiosity, why not mix both wood chips and leaf mold at the same time? Thanks!
These results are quite impressive just using raw wood chip and awful clay soil like I have 🙂
I'm actually hot composting woodchip, manure and greens to lay on my front garden bed which the neighbors say hasn't grown a blade of grass in 5 years.
Now I'll be happy to dig that and some fresh woodchip in to get the organics up then plant a green manure crop.
I'm hoping to be able to grow some edibles in there next year.
Great video. Ive wondered for a long time if wood chips would tie up N in the soil. I would like to eventually go to a no till method, but in my clay, low om, arid garden it would take decades.
Thank for the videos!
can we get an update as to how this experiment ended?
I would love to see some sort of update video on what your soil looks like now, 3 years later, with the state of the wood chips that have been decomposing all this time. I'm doing a mix of hugel cultur and wood chips on the surface this year for several reasons unique to my backyard conditions. It would be interesting to see wood chip degeneration from a zone not too far from my own (I'm 7a).
Anymore updates on this ?