Back to Eden Organic Gardening 101 Method with Wood Chips VS Leaves Composting Garden Soil #2

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1. Great explanation on how everything works together to make healthy soil. Thank you and God Bless you and your family.
2. Really informative, thank you.
3. Very nice job! Looking forward to seeing the rest :)
   
   I'm a total newbie with a flat grass lawn that I would like to convert to Eden like garden. And I'm wondering about two things:
   
   First:
   Can I use freshly chipped wood/leaf material or does it need to be heaped up in a miniature mountain for some time to get things "cooking" before i spread it?
   
   Second:
   In the "Back to Eden" movie they show an example where they build up their beds with cardbord, manure, mulch etc.
   Is this the way to go about things on a grasslawn or should i just spread out chips like you?
   
   Best regards and thanks for posting videos!
4. Fantastic video's
   I made a link to my Pumpkins.Tomatoes.Sweet.and.mild.Peppers/ group on facebook
   Hope that's ok for you
   
   Roland
5. Great video! Thanks for the info. You make this very easy to understand 👍🔆🌱
6. Great video! Very helpful in understanding why Back to Eden works. Merry Christmas!
7. Awesome soil video and i learned so much! TY VM!!!
8. I just found your video on the recommendation of a friend and I have a question. Several years ago my wife and started gardening at our previous house. We lived on 1 acre with lots of trees, but had a perfect patch of ground in the back corner without trees so it got the perfect amount of sun. For the first few years we had a good garden. But each fall I would gather the leaves and cover the garden with them. Then I removed them in the spring and disposed of them. After several years the garden got worse and one of my uncles who always had a great garden told me I fell for the old wifes tale using leaves and that the soil was now too acidic(tannic acid). He said he used leaves after planting his garden in the spring to place in between plants to block weeds, but never left them over the winter and never tilled them in the soil. And of course he was using fertilizer, etc. We have a new house now and a piece of ground that we want to start a new garden. I want to do it right this time. Next door we have 2 lots that were recently cleared of trees and the owner had lots of the stumps ground down. So there are lots of pills of wood chips. Mostly pine chips. So my two questions: 1. How does the soil keep from going too acidic using leaves/chips? 2. Does the type of wood chip matter?
9. great video!!
10. Excellent. Thank you.
11. Hi Mark! Your Chanel is such a discovery for me, I'm also following Patrick and Oscar 🐱. This is all new to me, I just moved to a little house on the countryside and it had a vegetable garden! Yay!!! So I'll keep studying your methods this winter. I'll maybe have some questions soon...
12. I'm new to this and need to know.....did we mess up? We put newspaper and cardboard down to kill any weeds, then we put leaves and wood chips on top? Can this work? Plus we have a compost bin....do we even need to use it come planting time? I feel frustrated! Help!
13. Can I mix leaves and chips?
14. Just curious what soil pH gauge you're using and is it really accurate. I have a scientific instrument with a glass bulb which is accurate but very inconvenient to use and hard to pierce the soil as well without breaking it, it also requires calibration, buffering and always keeping it moist. What you're using looks much more practical for gardening.
15. i have heard from my elder family - clay holds much more in nutrients . years ago they were selling land by destin fl cheap, but nobody wanted it ! all sand, cant grow crops cant raise livestock what good was it? just access to water to be able to fish,shrimp or oyster maybe a little cypress and pine to harvest as it needed organic matter to grow also.
16. Thank you so much. You have done a wonderful job explaining what I must do. I will follow through and let you know my progress.
17. I have no perennials that I have planted in the garden beds. The original garden soil was purchased packaged garden soil from Home Depot and Black Kow manure (package) from Lowe's. This was initially used in 2013. In 2014 and 2015, I used my own compost. I haven't planted the beds since last summer. Some of the weeds are grass-like, but tall perhaps 4 ft. Some of the weeds wood like, about 1/2 inch in diameter and tall 3-4 ft. If I cut the weeds down to soil level, cover with layer of newspaper or cardboard, then cover with leaves over the winter would this help? I live in zone one 9b, your fall/winter temperatures are. 40-65. Our winters are considered mild, approximately 300-450 chill hours.
18. Thank you in advance for your help. The beds have not been worked since the summer of 2015. I filled the raised beds with 50/50 garden soil and organic compost, originally when constructed in 2013. I have added my own compost made from grass clippings, coffee grounds, chicken manure, and chopped up stalks and leaves of vegetables. Last summer due to health issues, I was unable to plant/work my beds. Now, in the past year they are filled with weeds. I live near Houston, Tx. Earlier this summer, we had a long session of flooding rains from May through almost the end of June followed by very hot humid weather. We have just begun experiencing temperatures in the 50s and 60s in the last 1 1/2 weeks. I am committed to organic gardening only. The weeds have taken over the soil in the garden beds. I have never used cover crops in the past, but I will in the future. What would you suggest--I live 20 miles south of Houston, TX?
19. I have 3 raised beds (12 ft. x 6 ft.) that has gone to weeds. What would you recommend in order to get these beds back. Should I cut down the weeds (some are 4 ft. tall) and leave in the beds to decompose or should I remove the cut weeds and fill the garden beds with leaves? I would love to plant a spring garden. I live in zone 9b. Thank you in advance.
20. Thank you! Awesome demonstration and explanation. We are creating a very large garden on top of very sandy soil which we have wanted to do for decades. We decided to use leaves and wood chips because our new home has an abundance of them and I know what is in my soil and plants. Its also very economical. Tree trimmers will usually drop them off to you for free if gardeners do not have enough material on their land. We also use compost because being vegetarian we have so much of it. Thanks so much for all of your time on this!! I love knowing the science behind the information. Much appreciated.