Absolutely fantasticly fabulous 👍

Pretty awesome thumbnail on that mulch and why I need it video!

Our local electrical company has been running crews bush hogging and branch/tree removal maintenance along miles and miles of power lines. They're now down my road and happily agreed to drop as many loads of wood chips as they want on my property suspiciously close to my garden! Oh happy day! Loads are already decomposing after an hour sitting in a 7'high x 15' mound. It's hot already! 😂

Bought the lot next door 80’ x 125’ and immediately started covering it with arborist chips. Halfway through my second layer. 23 varieties of fruit trees, incredible collards, etc. Hugelkultur raised beds in my backyard. Same principle. I never fertilize.

Wonderful! I got three loads today. Hubby is not happy! I want more but he says NO. Couch potato and no interest in our land. The struggle is real. Blessings on your journey!

This was exactly what i needed to hear. I had some trees cut down back in Aug 2023 and I told the guys just to spread it across my back yard. I didnt know ANYTHING about what I was doing. I just didnt want them to haul it away though. Im a genius!!! 😂..Now I'm planning to plant into it for my fall garden. Im totally new to all of this and super excited. Thank you for sharing this!! Subscribed

what I've been doing is digging trenches in between where I want my rows of vegetables to grow. I use the clay I take out of the trenches to pile up the plot, then I fill the trenches with wood chips. By accident, I started adding coffee grounds to the chips (Starbucks freebee) thinking it would make it less hospitable to slugs and rodents. I didn't realize it at the time, but that mixes browns and greens right in between the garden plants, and composts like crazy. I did this in spring, and by mid summer, I could hardly tell where the rows of wood chips were, because lush weeds were growing in them, and the chips had turned to dark black loam. I noticed my plants (garlic) planted closer to those wood chips were much larger and lusher than the ones away from them! This stuff is amazing, and the coffee grounds make all the difference in breaking it down so fast!

Good evening from Southern England. We have a system here where local Councils own land which is divided into small areas and rented on an annual basis to residents of the area so that they can grow vegetables and fruit for their own consumption. They are called allotments. We get free deliveries of woodchips, both hardwood and coniferous, from local tree surgeons (arborists) and for the past couple of years I have composted these in plastic compost bins. where and when I can I mix the woodchips with grass or leaves and these speed up the decomposition process. Provided it is kept wet I can make good useable compost to spread on my heavy clay soil in about a year to fifteen months.

Very awesome

Our county has free wood chip mulch you can pick up starting April of every year. I have 2 ft raised beds. On my 5th year of using the mulch. 3 inches of wood chips turns into about 1/2 inch of black soil. One extra point. If you go to put them on the garden, add some green stuff to them if you don't have chickens or some kind of manure to mix in with it. This will be our first year doing back yard chickens. There will be 4 inches of mulch in the run and in the coop. That will make some amazing compost this fall or next spring. And BTW, most of the mulch here in Colorado is pine. Works perfectly fine if you let it sit over the winter and mulch the garden with it the next spring. I use the Back to Eden method on the beds. Only have to water once every 4 or so days and our humidity is very low. July to August is mostly 90 degree temps with little rainfall. Friends cannot believe how big our plants get. peppers that are supposed to grow 2 ft tall hit 3- 4 ft. I get 10 lbs of San Marzano tomatoes per plant that I limit to about 7 ft of height. And other plants have grown huge with nice production.

Looks good, but it seems to break down better when it's 12-18 inches deep instead of giant piles that may take years to break down

Yep wood chips are gold! I have rock hard clay with barely any top soil, here in Australia 🇦🇺 and I was lucky enough to get a big load of wood chips awhile ago. I’ve let the pile sit for a while to compost and cool down, as when you first get it, it will be hot. But now I use it to make garden beds. I just put a pile of it in a row, and make a hole in the pile and plant into that. I add some compost to the bottom of the hole I make, plant the plant, and away it goes. ☺️🌱👍🏼

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Been using wood chips for several years now. What a difference it makes on your garden. Keep spreading the word brother.

Great practical advise and explanations to help anyone get their soil where it needs to be to become successful gardeners.

This is interesting! I never knew about the black soil. Thank you for the information! ❤❤

We have had a tree services in the area for over a year. We have gotten 22 Xtra giant loads of wood

Have you tried introducing worms to any of your piles? Done properly they can supercharge the composting of all that material.

That is a really impressive set of whiskers!

I love your beard

Will pinestraw work too?

thank you brother in Jesus i have also just applied woodchip to the top layer of veg garden. just waiting to see results. its already composting well in the pile that was left here, maybe because uu have alot of rain in UK. whats your email?