WOOD CHIPS IN GARDEN - Growing In Wood Chips - Building Soil with Wood Chips

WOOD CHIPS IN GARDEN - Growing In Wood Chips - Building Soil with Wood Chips - Amending Soil

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4 жыл бұрын

Wood chips in the garden? Yes! I'm building soil with wood chips after tilling them in to create a better foundation. Do wood chips take nitrogen from soil ? I'm amending clay dirt by tilling wood chips INTO clay soil while starting a back to eden garden. This is how to improve soil quality for vegetables with back to eden gardening method with wood chips and how to improve soil structure. I still have a great source of food. They are the best garden soil amendments to starting a vegetable garden from scratch and what i would consider to still be a natural gardening technique. Good soil building to my future no till gardening clay soil and yes, wood chips turn to dirt, wood chips absorb water, and wood chips decompose all the while using nitrogen until the normal natural and organic process is complete. Just feed the soil or the process what it's hungry for, Nitrogen. Gardening with wood chips is a low cost gardening method that produces results. Prepare your homestead with this garden ideas for hard times. Proof is in the pudding....Or in the soil.
May all your branches become full of fruit.
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@heidiwilde5574 Жыл бұрын

I want some of that puddin with such great looking proof in it, ;) !! I'm so jealous of the melons!!! I get about one fist size melon to ripen here per half a dozen plants if the voles don't sever the stems from the roots. I keep trying every year, hoping, but I suppose I can't change the climate. What a wicked nice garden you have created with your rebel ways!! Btw, radish seed pods are very tasty in stir fries and salads or as a snack, when they are still immature.

@3basketliving Жыл бұрын

I like the puddin. It seems sometimes that women are always jealous of someone else's melons. LoL So where bouts or area are you growing? I'm not sure if I have ever eaten radish seed but you never know what people throw into a dish when you go t a gathering so maybe I have and just don't know it.

@heidiwilde5574 Жыл бұрын

@@3basketliving 🤣😂 Currently I'm way up by the mountains in the very NW corner of this country. It's beautiful country, but yea some things just don't grow well around here.

@mferrarorace 3 жыл бұрын

Great garden. Thanks for the update!

@yellowroseoftexas2890 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful garden

@leonardrichards9079 3 жыл бұрын

I love it!

@agardenramble4479 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I built my soil for a year before learning about wood chips. I put them in the pathways I think in June when my neighbor had some trees cut down. I noticed that my plants did not grow up the trellis they headed toward the wood chips. Very happy with the garden just not sure what I will do next year. Thank you for your update!

@KJV7154 3 жыл бұрын

Good ole cucumber XD

@sharonscates1859 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome garden, just started garden beds alongside in-ground planting and I'm going for vertical growing, starting with a couple of trellis..your garden gives me great ideas & some hope..Thanks for the information and Happy Gardening 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

@artbyrobot1 4 ай бұрын

I am going full fruit trees and fruit annuals and almost zero veggies because I am not a big veggy eater but love fruit at night. I say plant what you actually want to eat.

@shadyman6346 3 жыл бұрын

You look like Burt Reynolds....love the experiment. I built a mound of chips and dug into the soil, covered in cow manure last fall. Not even weeds grow in there this year. Should I wait a season before planting? Any comment from anyone is welcome!

@customcutter100 3 жыл бұрын

Just started back gardening this year. I made 1 bed by tilling the grass and raking it off. Then dug a hole 6-8" deep. I placed about 2" of rotting lumber in the bottom, then the grass that I had raked off. Then another 2" of rotting lumber, and about 1" of rotting leaves from under my oak tree. I then cut down several ornamental corn plants and placed them on top. Then I added about 6" of 6 month old horse manure and bedding pellets. Then I put the 6" of soil back on top, and did a few deep tills to mix the top soil and horse manure. 2 weeks later I transplanted my seedlings. After a few days I noticed my squash and beans had started to yellow and had stopped growing. I had heard somewhere about nitrogen sequestration by the wood, so I did 2 fertilizations with Miracle Gro Plant Food and everything greened up and started growing again. We are in Central Fl and I wanted to add organic material to hold water and aerate the sandy soil that we have. I added another 10x30' area and removed the grass then added 3" of the same horse manure and bedding pellets and tilled it deep. Adding drip tape today to get me through the first couple of seasons. I'm probably going to do like you and mulch with more bedding material and till it again at the end of the growing season. Thanks for the vid's. Subbed

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@junidhaniff6360 3 жыл бұрын

Great garden tour thom..keep em videos coming Nature loves you😄😄

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

Well if nature loves me then how can I lose? LoL Thanks and I will try.

@LorellaPlanBeeOrchardandFarm 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Thom! Your garden looks great!

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ms. Lorella. It's not up to par just yet but it sure does produce. So it seems that your having better results in yours as well. Keep it up ;)

@TheFarmDream 4 жыл бұрын

🌱 Gardening for life 🌱 Nice video =D

@3basketliving 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.Just trying to show some late pudding. ;)

@riversidecountryclub2211 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour! Garden looks great! I see the proof the wood chips is the way to go. I would like to ask," When you plant seed, how deep do you have to go ? Thanks ! More exact ,How do you plant seed?

@3basketliving 4 жыл бұрын

I will plant the seed as any other time with the wood chips pushed aside as if they weren't there. I will get this garden covered again and I can't wait. When I do then I guess I could / should show how I go about doing that. Thanks Robert and I hope this finds you doing well.

@lolitabonita08 4 жыл бұрын

Tom so happy to see u again...blessings to u and yours...

@3basketliving 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Thank you!

@didierhouet1595 3 жыл бұрын

Please show yours dehydrators thank you

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

I did. ;)

@demetrashelton1688 3 жыл бұрын

Hi how do you use the dehydrated cucumbers? Thanks for taking the time to film!

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

Right now I'm just grinding them up into to a fine powder to use in recipes but I'm trying to master them into a snack chip.

@mikecole405 4 жыл бұрын

You might check out oriental herbal nutrient (OHN), and Lactobacillis serum/lactic acid bacteria (LABS)

@3basketliving 4 жыл бұрын

LoL....you don't say??? Yes I'm very familiar with them. Thanks.

@HoneyHollowHomestead 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate an easily accessible source for wood chips in my area. I can gather up plenty of leaves in the fall, but wood chips are hard to come by.

@3basketliving 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it seems to be the same for many others out there. Using leaves and pine needles will be great alternative. The won't retain as much moisture with in themselves but will hold it in the soil longer than without for sure.

@AndreaS-oq7sw 3 жыл бұрын

Is that comfrey tea fertilizer? I planted some comfrey roots (like 1inch pieces ) this summer and the plants are about 12 inch clumps now. Can't wait till they're big enough to start harvesting leaves for my compost tea fertilizer.... Maybe next summer. !

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

You can call it a tea if you want but we call it JLF...a liquid fertilizer using microbes to break down and consume the organic material inside of the container. The material isn't just 'steeping' in water. I like to think of it as liquid composting myself. ;)

@MegaFictionalCharact 3 жыл бұрын

I dont understand why you would till "one more time" at this point if you have already established your organisms and incorporated the woodchips, they will break down faster with less disturbance? Just added the blanket of woodchips on top would suffice no?

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

Hi there. I like your question and it's a good one. I would agree and I almost convinced myself to do so already before. I can't or don't want to do that because of what I started from. SOLID clay and rock floor underneath. Right now I only have about 5-6" of a root grow zone and although that's fine for the shorter growing plant or the ones supported, It's just not enough or working for the taller plants I want to grow and NOT have to support. They have all blown over easily under their own weight with not so heavy winds. I will be getting ready to work it all up again at least one more time to get down as deep as I can and MIX all of this upper medium with more deeper clay before I put on my final cover of wood chips and Actually go to NO TILLING. I hope this makes sense.

@MegaFictionalCharact 3 жыл бұрын

@@3basketliving They have bred certain varieties of radish that are experts at digging into your soil, direct seeded okra will also reach their roots very deeply. Best of luck to you and yours and thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom!

@3basketliving 3 жыл бұрын

@@MegaFictionalCharact LOL....Well...You may have not seen the video but I did try using comfrey to see how well their reputation would uphold in the root depth penetration into the clay and rock but they failed. I give my reasons why in the vid and everyone knows how well those plants can 'dig' but not here or not this time. Thanks so much.

@MegaFictionalCharact 3 жыл бұрын

@@3basketliving comfrey has an average depth of 6inches. okra has an average taproot depth of 4feet. Like you said there is a lot of misinformation out there. Try what feels good and stick with what works for you.