How to Grow a Garden Without Watering. Garden Watering Techniques. Life Hacks Tips!
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How to Grow a Garden Without Watering. Garden Watering Techniques. Life Hacks Tips! This video documents how I grew a totally organic garden during a drought in Savannah Ga using practically no water. I reduced my water consumption 95% compared to the previous year using this wood chipping technique. This was an experiment wood chip garden based on the "Back to Eden" method of farming. Did it work?? Check out my review and see the results for yourself. Some folks say learning how to grow without water would be considered a dream hack. I share more about how to landscape a garden, healthy garden soil and garden lawn maintenance. I also discuss garden landscaping design, organic gardening garden and how to make a good plant watering system. Vegetable gardening organic plants has always fascinated me, I have been working hard to understand gardening landscape and water gardening. I guess I would say how to build a garden would also be a good way to describe my video. For FREE access to my private and unlisted videos sign up at http://www.TarrinLupo.com Music Title Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
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i put down wood chips from a local tree trimmer service in october, it is now april and i have dust piles here and there but other piles look like something poured in a small area and dried on top. im not sure what this is. can you help? is it something that happen naturally or something else?
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Your video would have been more interesting if you had showed what you were talking about and not your face. But good content if for only helping start a bed.
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I appreciate the before and after of your garden. I like how that is contained in one video. great job. I too am making videos about my adventure with back to eden.
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with a weed barrier you won't have the worms attracted - I think it would make a huge difference. And was curious about your thoughts that on Back to Eden he says all mulch but he does add regular compost?
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Wood chips are the ground or chipped green (living when cut) tree limbs, twigs and leaves. Wood mulch can be coarsely chopped or shredded shipping pallets, demolition debris, etc. It is sometimes dyed to make it more pleasing to the idea. Avoid the commercial "Wood Mulch". Heaven only knows where it came from and what chemicals it might contain. IMHO
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Would you kindly explain the difference between wood chips and mulch? I thought both were one in the same. Would it by any chance refer to the size of the broken down wood pieces? (i.e., smaller pieces = mulch, larger pieces = wood chips?)
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Oh thank god. I thought ground hog day was happening to me.
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chips laid in winter work for the next spring. otherwise you're into next year for the breakdown.
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not supposed to be 2 inches of "SOIL" after newspaper, it's supposed to be 4 inches of COMPOSTED HORSE MANURE <<<to feed your plants and then the chips. i notice everyone is getting that wrong.
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This is our first time using a sheet mulch/ back to Eden method please feel free to subscribe.
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Pine needles are great to use around strawberries instead of the chips. Put a good layer on top and they do fantastically well! Great clip :-)
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I laid down paper first, then dirt, then chips. I have had almost no weeds.
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SORRY FOLKS, I screwed up editing this. around min 8 it repeats a min. Just jump past that because there is some stuff at the end you will want to see.
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1) see above 2)No I only used water when I planted them. I gave them a good soaking. You might have to water a few times till the first big rain. After that you're done watering and it will self maintain.
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ALSO don't pull the chips out when your garden is done, just add 2-3 inches of new chips a few months before you start growing. The old chips break down to awesome compost. Your soil will get better and better the more you use it, kinda opposite of tradition farming. Also Angie is right, pine is not the best choice because it takes so long to break down, but it still works. Hardwoods would be a much better choice if you can get it.
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I did use pine chips, that is kind of a myth it raises the acidity, if it did my garden would be dead. NOW if you mix the wood chips INTO the soil, it will leech nitrogen. BUT if you just lay the chips on the soil it does not. The beds I got were recycled because someone was giving them away. To be clearer , just lay the newspaper right over the grass. Then add about 2 inches of dirt (which I also got for free) . Then 4-6 inches of wood chips (NOT MULCH) there is a difference. Thats it.
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Ooooops, more questions: 1) You grew BROCCOLI in the heat?! Was the broccoli an organic type, or a hybrid? Awesome feat to grow broccoli in the heat!
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Questions: 1) What type of wood are the chips made from? 2) Do you water first, then put the chips down?
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