My thoughts the same, now I know before I go further. I've already researched what are considered perennial foods or plants and the annual foods or plants, this way I can determine what I should be planting more into the wood chips fungi soil and more into bacteria enriched soil.

Soil is fascinating, so is water. People really don't know how to water, a little bit at a time.

Does it make any difference, what kind of wood chips you use? Since there are heating systems for wood chips, they aren't for nothing anymore as far as I found out. Some write, just take the ones that contain leafs otherwise it will make the dirt too sour. Here I read, take the bark chips... don't know which one to use now...

@@RoSario-vb8ge The shredded style mulch works best for me. It will "stick together" and sort of seal the top while holding the moisture underneath. My first year garden at my current house (3 years ago) I used pine bark mulch... didn't work as well and takes much longer to decompose.

Good info thank you I’ve got a 30’ x 16’ x 4’ pile of wood chips that I mixed with forest leaves, check the manure, steer manure, would ash/grass clippings coffee grinds etc. started heating up and just watching the process.

Let's Gooo!! Tuck is the best, I just try to follow his lead

= @@jamesprigioni = I am essentially at my first garden also. This video was very informative for me, with several ideas to keep in mind. Thankyou for making and posting this video.

I do not quite agree with him on the annuals. A wood chip much or hay mulch works great for most annuals. I think you want at least a 50/50 bacteria to fungi soil for most home gardeners. I do see his problem with lettuce or carrots. Ruth Stout sure did not have any problems.

Hey fellow South Jersian😁 this was an awesome teaching

Natalie Smith south jersey stand up!! 😆

How about South Philly .... can I get a "hey" I was to garden so badly but every plant I've ever grown has died. Including a huge cactus gifted to me. I'm a green jinx. I just wanna grow a salad.... lettuce, onion and tomato to start:( anyone willing to assess my yard or help me get it started right?

@@dellaangel You can get soil tests online. Just Google soil test. Or search KZfaq for soil test. After you do that you can amend your soil so that you can work with it. Also what you need to start with is just lettuce in the fall and spring once you grow that you'll get a little more confidence. watch a lot of KZfaq videos learn about the insects learn about the viruses learn about watering. And then get out there and buy some seeds.

Melina Alarcon tough choice there

Good idea, thanks.

Nice to meet you too my friend 😁

How is the farming there ?

Howdy from the U.S.

...and WELCOME from France

Pho Rocks🍲

Glad to hear that Joe, I'm glad you found value in the information. Thanks for the kind words my friend

It probably helps that he is is in New Jersey “The Garden State “, but yes his methods are good. I’m down in Florida with sand and nematodes. Not the same as Maryland or Northern California where I hardened previously.

If everyone knew and decided to take action, no matter how small, it would be a better world.

Thank him for his legs!!😘🔥

too much grass and you will have maggots in the garden.

@K Barnes well thats not,the case for some people i know,personally who are now fighting that method of growing and theyve only,used grass clippings for,ehhh 4-5 years now.

I'll never use grass clippings as mulch again. The lawn in my garden is healthier than the lawn in my yard.

I'm with Meena

@@Tuzieq lol

Harvest video coming soon 😁

@ Farmer Brown Grows. That's true. I have not been successful at it yet, but I gave a tomato plant to someone a couple of years ago and his plant is alive and thriving . But sorry to say, he did not make it to see them produce this year.

@@lucypearlmorgan3115 Those that he leaves behind will reap the rewards of both your efforts.

That is a fabulous advice - although I do not know if that works in the zone with colder winters. Will check that out.

My friend found the same with French beans in her polytunnel. She cut them back and they regrew from the stumps!

This is so helpful! I didn't know I could grow tomatoes and peppers as perennials. Any other veggies like this?

I do lasagna gardening with cardboard boxes from the friendly neighborhood convenience store recycling dumpster. I cut it into manageable strips, pile them in my wheelbarrow and cover the cardboard in water and let it saturate, then I lay it down three or four layers deep and overlapping, then I put a light layer of bagged wood mulch to hold it down and retain moisture (and it looks like you have a thick beautiful layer of mulch, but no one knows!). MY PLANTS LOVE IT!!!

@@CaroleHaddon I do the same thing with boxes and wood chips and barks chips. If you can get bark chips use them, they have WAY more nutrients than wood chips (wood doesn't have much minerals etc to give off, bark does though.).

@@CaroleHaddon oh, im stealing you're idea! thanks!

@@sherrie9241 go for it!! Your garden will love you right back. Keep it moist!

@@askaboutRudyV yes!!! Pine bark nuggets!

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you should... whats the worst? 200 ppl view it? haha.. thats dope! go for it.. good luck!

@@nesd0g спасибо ❤

Yes just got make sure it doesn't contain toxins to other plants. A few native trees in Florida kill everything under their canopies.

@@dustinb1070 but as MULCH not even wood chips from Black Walnut has negative impacts (University of Washington) - and that TREE does not tolearate other plants nearby. so I wonder if the leaves are not also usually harmless. are there any trees where the dropped leaves can give off something damaging while they are broken down? The bacteria and fungi that break them down will be unimpressed. The ALIVE trees may kill everthing under the canopy, but that could be the roots not the leaves. Or the leaves as long es they can excrate something = they are alive and part of the living tree. Anyway, in a compost heap with some greens etc, it should be O.K. Hindering plants to germinate or grow is not the same as hindering fungi, bacteria, earth worms.

Yeah it's basically a growth retardent. Oak tree leaves do it. I'd assume with a decent amount of time composting it's rendered inert

Albus Dumbledor omg what a great idea! It should go on Reddit as ‘eye bleach’ (cleans your eyes and makes you happy after seeing something awful).

Albus Dumbledor yep. Without Tuck he’d be nothing. Lol

Haha I think he has one now!

All of my dogs loved carrots. Dogs in the wild eat veggies to supplement their hunts. Even dog food has plant based fillers. If anyone has a pupper, talk to your vet about giving them veggies as snacks. Let your gardens supplement your pet treat bill too lol

Smart!

That’s exactly what I’m doing in my garden beds with wood chips in the walkways. Best of both worlds.

@@anthonycreations You should check out Back To Reality he has an interesting way to grow potatoes on his channel.

I do too. Cut and drop while pruning.

Yup, tweaked things a little. Thanks for the kind words my friend.

Same !! Gives me anxiety but I like it 🤣🤣👏🏼

Mw too lol

Always scares me even though I watch him all the time. Anxiety for me for 2 minutes then the heart rate drops and I can watch the video. Lol!

hahaha! just check out his very first videos , it seems he went from about level 1 to level 10!

Cracks me up how his voice changes from the intro to the actual video. LOL

When you say "well-rotted" how old is it? I can get it but I thought it has to be several years old?

For some reason my butternut squash are making beautiful male flowers but they're not pollinating the females. What do you think I'm doing wrong?

@@poolman8676 It could be a lack of pollinators. Do you have bees that frequent your garden? If not, you can use a paint brush and collect pollen from a male flower and dust a female flower's pistol. It is always good to have natural pollinators though. You may want to set up a bird bath near your garden and keep it filled with water. This will help attract both birds and pollinators to your garden, which is a good thing. Also, try to keep from using pesticides and herbicides as both can kill honeybees. I also make sure I have at least two of every plant type planted fairly close to each other, that way they can cross pollinate each other.

@@wesbaumguardner8829 wow, thank you for replying back so quickly. what's funny is I didn't have any bees until a couple days ago. My friend gave me a bunch of catfish and I clean them and left the innards by the garden. I woke up the next day and had so many bees swarming around. It was just coincidence. I think I'm going to keep a dead fish around the garden all the time from now on, lol. Yes I have six butternut squash and they're all doing well but just producing flowers. I open the doors and now the bees are swarming around there. I hope they get the hint.Thank you so much for the advice. I really appreciate it.

No pesticides or herbicides anywhere by the garden. I use Miracle-Gro to start it out. That's the most commercial I've been so far.

@@poolman8676 No problem. As long as you have bees and both male and female flowers you should be good. The only other problems I could think of are soil conditions/PH, sun, and watering. You want slightly acidic soil with 6 to 6.5 PH and full sun/no shade. Squash like deep less frequent watering. I water mine every other day about twice as much water as my tomatoes. I use a raised bed with high organic matter. I do not use the chemical fertilizers. I use fish fertilizer and blood meal and bone meal along with compost.

Whuuuuuutt!!!!! I need to find one in Michigan!!! *but does it smell like pee* ?????

I'm jealous. But good for you.

He seriously makes me cringe tbh

Nathan S. That really is cool

The book “ The Findhorn Garden “ might be a good read for you

I reassure, encourage and talk to my plants regularly. I think they need to hear how great of a job they’re doing. Yes. I’m weird.

@FIREGARDEN Very interesting theory!

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Damn, sorry to hear that, we just got a reprieve here in Ohio. Need some shade cloth though...

94° right now in Mississippi. I feel your heat exhaustion 😞

Hey Southeast Fam! I'm in NOLA

91 in Jersey... Weather it's wood, straw or diced leaves... Mulch is 💯 needed 😊

Thank you my friend!

I tried to bring my dog Mako into my garden because I love how Tuck knows what food to eat... well she got too excited and now I’m one pepper plant down haha. How did you train Tuck to be mindful of your plants?

If you do terracing be very mindful of the possibility of mudslide IF / WHEN your area ever gets unusal amount of rain. a once in 10 years event. - I am saying that because the permaculture guru of Austria, Joseph Holzer, did well on his farm (he developed his methods from the late 1960s on and only later realized there was such a thing and term as "permaculture" but the principles were siminlar. he also did excelent work on internationalal projects once he had gotten famous. Then he advised a land owner in the same country, but another state and with very differnet climate (he is in the mountains, and if an area was susceptible to slides it happened 500 or 1000 years ago). The woman he advised lived in a drier, warmer, much flatter region that also - usually - gets less rain. She had a mudslide that did a lot of damage, she wanted to transfer her land into a permaculture property with paying visitors, directly selling produce, restaurant etc. I think the mudslide did a lot of damage, and they engaged in a court battle (and she declared bankrupcy and he bought her farm). Not sure if HE was underestimating the area (that was nothing like he was used to), or if she was not following his instructions. But it was unexpected, a man with a LOT of experience and a high ability to read the landscape was part of the picture - and then they had a mudslide. If he had them on his farm, in that region (mountains, it goes up faily high, so traditionally only grass / dairy / beef) a farm has to be large, yields were not high and the (steep) slopes were hard to work. If he learned the hard way on his property - a mudslide was not catstrophic the land was not as valuable and it was not likely any human or building would be nearby.

If you are in an arid area you might find Brad Lancester and the concept of "planting the rain" interesting. One thing that he said in a presentation that struck with me. He said that people applied the concepts, but did not always get the reading of the landscape right, or see the full picture (incl. potential extreme events) and obviously also did not have mentoring. So things worked - untill they didn't. When a big rain came after 5 years or so. Which instead of being a blessing and filling the water table and their reservoires wiped out the structures they had build in the years before. Because they had not considered what would be if one system element / catchment was overwhelmed, or a drainage pipe failed * etc. What is the BACKUP if one element fails / is overwhelmed. * Geoff Lawton had a few pipes of swales clogged or something. And it hit a new swale that was not yet stabilized by surrounding trees. Wasn't a big deal in his case, more of a learning moment. And he can use machines and has many volunteers that will help to fix it. But it can happen to everyone, even a master like Geoff Lawton. Likely he profits of having set up a system that does have some reserves in security and absorption capacity, most catchments did NOT fail, and the event (rain) was not that big. But with climate change, extreme weather events will become more common. Draughts followed by excessive downpours. So the every 10 years rain weeks and storms might become more frequent. Or more than usual rain in winter, for weeks on end. Which would be a blessing of course - if you can safely catch the water and funnel it into your designated areas and into the underground.

I found a channel from India NREGA National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Low key earth work (lots of human labor) to stop runoff, to harvest the rain, and to avoid flooding (during monsoon) followed by draughts. So that is a government project, I watched a video (in English and a pdf was shown). it is open source and I was able to find it online. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act WatershedWorks Manual Baba Amte Centre for People’s Empowerment Samaj Pragati Sahayog July 2006 From chapter 3 on you might find interesting information, also regarding the steepness and what can be done with wat slope.

I think the video I watched was NREGA-MP--Watershed dev on Farm Interventions-MGNREGA from around 2015 - but they have several uploads. And it might be comparable in that they have slopes and times of draught, followed by a LOT of rain in short time. your problem (and that of these Indian farmers) is normally to get rain and then to catch it - but they also had to protect themselves from too much rain.

@@xyzsame4081 I am aware of the mudslide risk. Most of the terraces I have I think were first built by the roman empire (people living at this time) so I am just repairing them, most are going with the bedrock, and the 2 centuries old olive trees are grabbint on those, making the complete thing solid (i hope) but thank you for the warning.

ive been using wood chips for 30 years never once have i seen a termite or had termite problems at my house

Nope, I talk about termites in a different wood chip video I have :)

Thanks! I'm looking forward to extending my garden area and doing so the wood chip way

Dani, let me know how your chip drop goes, I've been considering it! I wouldn't even care if I got stumps and logs!

@@CaroleHaddon I just got my second drop from chip drop! I tipped them 20 dollars for each and both drops showed up within 2 weeks. Not sure how much the tipping effects the time but I tip anyway cuz it's a great service. I found 1 plastic bag in one drop and a couple pieces of glass but other than that it's perfect!