10 TIPS Back to Eden Organic Gardening 101 Method with Wood Chips VS Leaves Composting G. Series #6
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10 TIPS + 12 PRO'S or CON'S. Part 6 of 12 Part Series that will help you understand the PRO'S & CON'S of Back to Eden organic deep mulch gardening method 101 with wood chips to composting just Fall leaves. Great start for beginners Tour our secrets for organic soil & growing gardening vegetables 101 documentary with pest control. Looking into soil food web & soil health in a no till organic garden. diy garden. Organic gardening and farming
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I just started using leaf mulch because I have plenty of them and I bought a worx leaf blower that shreds the leafs
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You are a great teacher I love your videos
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Love your videos... watched most all of them now... Been doing back to eden for years myself..learned a lot more about it and why it works..Thank you so much for sharing...
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I am going to plant them around the lettece, carrots, Swiss chard, etc I have growing. I noticed things growing slow and think some areas are too wet from the wood chips. I have compact sugar snaps peas I put in a month ago that are doing well. Tomato and squash planted late doing well. I have mixed in some native plants and think I will put in more between the rows like native Hibiscus. So, perhaps more sugar snap peas and raise the dirt level where the carrots and a few others are growing too slowly. Only thing I can think causing the problem is too wet. The sloped areas are doing well. I had added lots of layers like chicken manure, etc. Thanks! Lori
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Instead of clover what would be good edible plants to fix nitrogen that I could plant with my lettece, Swiss chard, etc over the winter. I was thinking perhaps favs and peas? Any herbs or other ideas? I am in the bay area in CA so the climate is pretty moderate. Thanks!
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I live in the city and in my back yard I put the Back to Eden gardening method into place. I put thick wood chips around my fruit trees and garden area. In the garden area I also added chicken manure, etc. My winter garden is planted and coming up. I like the idea of adding a cover crop in with my vegetables however I'm concerned that some of the grasses used as a cover crop might spread seed all over the yard. I am leaving large areas just as wood chips and then the vegetable garden for my plants. Are there any short cover crops to intermix my planting with?
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My "soil" is pure clay on top of limestone bedrock. I wonder how long it might take to create a "growable" layer of new soil on top of the clay able to support growth if I used several years of deep layers of leaves and wood chips?
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Why are bark chips a negative imput?
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Apologies if this came twice; but, can you use something like an earthway seeder in your deep mulch for direct seeding?
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Question about types of leaves... we had a bout of leaf spot on our pepper plants this year (not sure if fungal or bacterial) and everything I've read says to keep them out of the garden, as the fungus/bacteria can overwinter in the soil. Does that logic still apply when using the leaf composting method here? Some have already begun to decay into the soil... I'd like to think that everything will eventually balance itself out, but not sure. Thoughts from anyone out there? Thanks for all the videos! Super helpful!!
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Does back to eden really require 10 - 12 inches of chips? Seems a heck thick to me. I usually mulch max 2 - 3 inches...non back to eden though.
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Dandelions are grown for food in many places. I eat the young greens and use just the flower as a tea. Pick 4-5 flowers, no stalks, put in hot water for 5 minutes add some honey and drink. This tea will detox your body and flush out your system. I did not believe it till I tried it. I have yet to try the root, butt I understand it too is healthy for our body. Dandelions are only weed if not organically grown.
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after two years I honestly think leaves produce better crops
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A 15 year study of wood chips and cover cropping on the farm from 1951 to 1966 was published by Cornell in 1971. Not exactly Back to Eden style, but good enough to show improvement in soil and yield in most cases. Clearly the results should have led to more research on this subject. But who would fund such a thing? Certainly not Agro business. Here is a summary, but the original publication is also on the net for those who like reading such things. https://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/Pubs/Wood%20Chips%20in%20Vegetable%20Production.pdf
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is it helpful to put hay under the woodchips?
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can you add more info to the plant you are adding to the squash, it sounded like "asturgeon" and it is to help protect from squash bugs, do you mean the black fleas that eat the pithy part of the squash leaves? Thanks!
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one thing I found with leaves vs chips is that they both need to be piled for some time to get all parts equi-damp, fall is not really the time to put leaves in your garden, pile them in the fall and put them on the garden in the spring, then the leaves are soaking wet and the do not move and they are likely denser than the chips. I do not have easy access to chips so I have been using leaves for years, if you can get a layer of leaves on your garden 3 inches thick little or no weeds will come through the leaves, if you only have 3 inches of chips in spots you will get weeds, if I had access to lots of chips I would not have this issue but life is life. I have not perfected this yet but to me it is looking like about 3 inches of leaves first and about 3 inches of chips on top of the leaves once they are soaked and settled it is working good so far. This is a very interesting experiment, and I am wondering to myself how come no one else has done this there are many southern universities with farm programs why is this not already been done and passed on, onward hoe!
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You won't slow down centipede grass unless you put down cardboard. I use contractors paper which also works well. Just roll it out and cover.
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so, so far, what is the points on each side: leaves, wood chips?
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You said there's no bad type of leaves or chips. Wouldn't walnut with it's juglone content be counterproductive?
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