SHARE THIS VIDEO IF YOU HATE WEEDING! 20% Off Tower Gardens! teamgrow.us/collections/garden-planters 00:00 Intro 00:19 Without The One Thing 00:30 Doing The One Thing 01:20 Initial Weed Barrier 02:25 How Thick to Mulch 03:18 Mistakes When Mulching 03:51 What Wood Chips are Best 04:51 Benefits of Using Wood Chips 06:40 Soil After Wood Chips and Before Wood chips 08:33 Invasive Weeds 09:19 Common Wood Chip Misconceptions 10:24 Back to Eden Method 11:15 Weed Barrier Alternatives 12:03 How to Get Wood Chips 13:15 Final Thoughts
@sheilahamilton2568
5 ай бұрын
I love your channel and have been an avid follower for years. Do you have suggestions for material use, other than metal, or plastic/biodegradable plastic, that encourage a natural forest, that are still convenient?
@yoshideku117
5 ай бұрын
How do you get rid off ants? They eat tomatoes and killed my plants. I don't know what to do against them
@LADOGardenTips
4 ай бұрын
❤
@nicothenatural
4 ай бұрын
My entire back yard is a huge mix of weeds. I collected cardboard from local businesses, mowed everything to the lowest point I could, layer the cardboard down, layer my garden beds down, then a top layer of wood chips. I filled my bed using a similar method as hugelculture, topped it off with local organic topsoil. I have zero weeds coming through! I checked underneath the cardboard and it successfully smothered the weeds. It's pretty awesome to see 👀
@stacywachal949
4 ай бұрын
What does layered my garden bed down mean?
@nicothenatural
4 ай бұрын
@stacywachal949 I put down a layer of cardboard before placing and filling my raised bed ontop of it. Hopefully that makes more sense 💖
@annwilliams9633
10 күн бұрын
Cardboard is great in the garden 👍
@mydogwyatt
5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, wood chips have not been victorious over Bermuda grass. Wood chips hide the growth of underground rhizomes and I have had to dig deep to get the roots out.
@cindyspiess9963
5 ай бұрын
yup bermuda grass is very persistent and can sent out a leader to almost unlimited lengths
@justinpatterson7444
5 ай бұрын
My 12” of wood chips created a beautiful Bermuda lawn. It’s the nicest grass in my entire lawn. And no, it was not supposed to be. Bermuda loves wood chips !
@cindyspiess9963
5 ай бұрын
@@justinpatterson7444 😬
@cathiwim
4 ай бұрын
Same goes for wiregrass!
@larpbusters
4 ай бұрын
I have a few things that grow through rhizomes. I had to do a layer of landscape cloth and wood chips on top. Otherwise the weeds will grow through any of these other things… even 10-12 inches of soil like recommended. They take quite a while to smother and will push under or through anything other than good cloth. I’m hoping I can smother it out over time and then get rid of the cloth.
@fuzzy3440
4 ай бұрын
Suggest wetting the cardboard or contractor paper before putting the woodchips down; helps it to break down better.
@spriteespritee1237
4 ай бұрын
Well it will be wet when it rains anyway…and matter is to stop that weed from growing through that cardbaord.I think dry cardboard initially will do way better job.
@carliepatterson2879
5 ай бұрын
Been watching your channel for years, it's amazing to have seen the progress in your garden. Thank you for challenging us!
@tegridyfarms9972
5 ай бұрын
Tuck got a little time-out for stealing all the asparagus.! 😂😂🙌🏼🙌🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@chrisdonovan8795
5 ай бұрын
Did you know that in his first few videos, he used to shout, "Let's go!" Unfortunately, the neighbors complained, so he was forced to whisper it instead.
@lindaseel9986
5 ай бұрын
Didn't know that.
@imageword5576
5 ай бұрын
no, he just said it more and more excitedly, year after year, until finally now he's so excited that it hits a decibel that is outside of our human ears' range of hearing, so it sounds like whispering.
@lindaseel9986
5 ай бұрын
@@imageword5576 😂😂😂👍👍
@chrisdonovan8795
5 ай бұрын
@@imageword5576 I think you're right!
@dawsoncolleen
5 ай бұрын
really, gees, that sucks for him
@anitahernandez1207
5 ай бұрын
❤❤❤🐶🐾 We love seeing Tuck, he’s precious. No weeds = happy soil microbes 🦠 Great information, thank you
@devinhood7340
5 ай бұрын
❤ hands down the best gardening Channel thanks guys❤
@sallysmith9733
5 ай бұрын
😊❤Excellent what I'm doing right now. I'm a gardener. I do this for my job. Constantly putting myself out of business lol.
@suzynelson7455
4 ай бұрын
I love wood chips!!! Cardboard then wood chips, then in a couple of years, do it again! I've changed the whole micro climate in my garden, and it's bursting with earthworms!
@merlebigini217
5 ай бұрын
I can’t believe that you locked the King out of the garden😮😮😮❤❤❤for the King
@lupitacameron9693
5 ай бұрын
And we thought it was Tuck’s garden 😂❤❤❤❤
@brentsmith-d8h
4 ай бұрын
#JusticeForTuck!
@petermartin9614
5 ай бұрын
i wet mine first,, and try to maintain a 9:1 carbon to nitrogen ratio, by wetting with a nitrogen mix,,, i also layer,,, cardboard/chips and old silage/ soil /cow shit soil,,, repeat
@amynourse9727
4 ай бұрын
I'm so happy I watched this. I bought landscape fabric and still have a window of time to return it. I'm going with woodchips. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Love Tuck! ♥♥♥♥♥
@maryzwierecki5646
4 ай бұрын
Landscape fabric from the store is not helpful in keeping weeds suppressed.
@sgtrickards5683
5 ай бұрын
I've had a company dump woodchips on my property for about 5 years now. I have a huge mountain of them. It's so big that I park on them. It's about 25' thick. I also have a food forest and use woodchips. They work. I'm in Sussex County, De. So far, I have 3 peach, 3 apple, 9 fig, 3 cherry, and 3 pears. I also have many berry plants. We also have chickens. I keep losing my cherries to the late frost. Everything else does really well though. What species of cherry trees do you have? Do you get a good harvest. It would seem as if Jersey is a bit cooler than Delaware, so I'm wondering if I have the wrong species. Thanks brother.
@brokenmeats5928
5 ай бұрын
I love ALL The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni videos!
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
Let’s Gooo!!! 🐕😁❤️
@xaviercruz4763
5 ай бұрын
@@jamesprigioni James would you record the yields of trees before adding the fertilizer to see if it worked and or how well?
@joannsilva4715
5 ай бұрын
❤❤ Tuck looks so cute in that last shot in a square foot garden block chomping away on his goodies! ❤️❤️🦴🐾🐾 Jerzee James, your garden looks great!❤
@Maxbfishing
5 ай бұрын
CANT WAIT,it's like Xmas around here, 72 tomato plants, peppers hot, and green, YOU Taught me well, 4th yr into it. GETTING READY TO HARDEN 🪴 THIS WEEK. ENJOY . 😊
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
Let’s Gooo!!! 🐕😁❤️
@lanalovesjesus6133
5 ай бұрын
I’ve done this here in GA about 7 years straight now, but here Bermudan grass is impossible to keep out unfortunately
@michaelsecrest7183
5 ай бұрын
Same here in Texas
@slamrock17
5 ай бұрын
It's the price you pay to avoid nano plastics exposure. Better to do the weeding than put down plastic.
@lanalovesjesus6133
5 ай бұрын
@@slamrock17 I don’t put down plastics I just deal with Bermuda grass. Just saying I don’t have a weed free garden though
@teebob21
5 ай бұрын
Bermuda grass is a gift from the devil. I'd rather deal with the field bindweed and buffalo burrs we have in the Midwest than deal with Bermuda again.
@lanalovesjesus6133
5 ай бұрын
@@teebob21 totally agree. It’s basically bamboo in the grass world
@arlenemaxwellcopeland1644
5 ай бұрын
Do you not use ChipDrop service? Or is it not available in NJ? I thought you recommended it? I've taken two deliveries through them and I'm happy. I've been thanking you: ).
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
I was getting mixed reviews from people about how chip drop doesn't work, so I wasn't comfortable promoting people to use it. If it does work that is great to hear, I will suggest it again in a future video
@MikeV607
5 ай бұрын
Too many gardeners got confused about the 'Back to Eden' method. Although Paul Gautschi uses wood chips in his orchard, he uses COMPOST in his vegetable garden... Some compost from his chicken run and some compost from tub ground organics.
@DavyOneness
5 ай бұрын
It sounds like you are confused, he uses the compost with screened woodchips in the vegetable gardens. The common mistake people make is planting into woodchips instead of the dirt underneath the chips, or the dont sift the woodchips through a screen to get the big chunks out. Also other mistake is people use store bought chips treated with chemicals, or they don't use aged woodchips. Been doing it veganic for a decade now without chicken or cow feices just fine, so even the need of chickens is a misconception for success
@vickisavage8929
5 ай бұрын
The best weed control is dependent on local conditions. In areas, like the Deep South, infested with fire ants and termites, wood chips are not the best idea… Tuck rules! ❤️❤️❤️
@carolstettheimer9906
5 ай бұрын
I’ve wondered about this. How can we passively build our soil? I do have sentricon around the actual house, but still.
@joniboulware1436
5 ай бұрын
I use woodchips in Texas for mulch all around my raised vegetable beds and in perennial beds as well. I don't see anymore fire ants in those beds than other places.
@ZeFeratu
5 ай бұрын
Wood chips are, unfortunately, not available for free everywhere. Not even Chip Drop can help where I live 😂
@Peoplespilates
5 ай бұрын
I live in India.Thank you for this, I use the technique in my containers.Ants love it.What do you do about ants. I have many different varieties of ants in my garden. I have containers and ants will make nests in them and eventually kill my plant. I don't use pesticides but our neighborhood gets fogged twice a month with mosquito repellant. I am not an advocate of this, but it can't be helped.
@lindaseel9986
5 ай бұрын
James, you are so helpful and I learn much from you. 🥰😘🤗💝💕💞😀💓💖💗♥️💟 For the Young King!
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
Let’s Gooo!!! Me and Tuck appreciate the kind words 😁🐕❤️
@ciaohoney54
5 ай бұрын
JUST LOVEEEEE YOU AND TUCK- YOUR ENERGY IS AWESOME!!!!
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
Let's Gooo!!! 😁🐕❤️
@ross-smithfamily6317
5 ай бұрын
James, after dealing with wire grass in my blueberry patch yesterday, your video on getting rid of weeds showed up. Perfect timing! Tuck is cuter than the law allows! 💖💖
@MiltonRoe
4 ай бұрын
Recommend using pine needles or evergreen chips. Invasive asian jumping worms absolutely adore hardwood chips. You will be literally farming them if you lay down hardwood (provided they are in your area, though not sure there is anyplace left in the U.S. where they haven't invaded).
@megamnn1
5 ай бұрын
be careful with birch. the oil in the bark can contaminate the soil.
@Kathleen253
5 ай бұрын
I am still working on spreading chips that were delivered to my front driveway last week. There's no access to my backyard. Definitely a workout all the shoveling and raking. Guess its use it or lose it 😅
@elizabethblane201
5 ай бұрын
It IS a lot of work to spread it. I hire workers to help me, otherwise it would take me a about a week of straight work.
@moukidelmar
5 ай бұрын
I mulch heavily with a combination of mulches (woodchips, hay and grass clipping) and the weeds just grow straight through them! Especially GRASS it grows through everything! I dump another load of mulch on everything that pops up and it never stops!
@ConsidertheLilyoftheField
5 ай бұрын
Same here. The grass is the worst!
@Energetichealingwithtinab
5 ай бұрын
Yep, my weeds and grass eat right through cardboard + woodchip combo.
@elizabethblane201
5 ай бұрын
How deep is your mulch?
@lafuego7
5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for helping me understand about the wood chips and how they work.
@Colette-x6h
5 ай бұрын
❤💚🩵💙🧡🩶❤️💛🐶 These hearts are for Tuck James
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
Thanks! I will send them his way form ya ❤️🐕
@Colette-x6h
5 ай бұрын
😍
@tawaunadow4947
5 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@kevina1084
4 ай бұрын
If you leave your cardboard outside on a rainy day the tape will come off easy.
@busker153
5 ай бұрын
I used to use cardboard until I found out a university study showed that it restricts air motion in your soil. No more cardboard or paper for me. Just woodchips, and it works fine. Masanabu Fukuokua would applaud the spirit of asking, "What else can I not do?"
@prepnow4431
5 ай бұрын
I've been using wood chips for 10 years plus. My culprit is the birds. They eat things with seeds and drop the seeds and fertilize them even! Yea, it's a constant battle but occasionally, I find a good plant growing that I didn't have before! Thanks bird! Don't forget to stop by the bird bath on your way out.
@lizlucey3812
5 ай бұрын
I’m also doing a wood chip garden. My birds have already planted sunflowers and millet under the feeder and I’m letting some of it grow.
@krob1n
5 ай бұрын
My neighbor and I suffer the same problem. This year she covered all her seeds outside with clear plastic cups creating an almost terrarium type environment. She planted the seed then pushed the cup down about an inch or two to secure them.
@tanarehbein7768
5 ай бұрын
Volunteers are the blessing from healthy trees bringing in the wildlife. That's why they call it gardening not just harvesting
@mckennahicks5259
5 ай бұрын
I’ve done the opposite and used living pathways with clover grasses even the dandelions have a home their bringing deep nutrient to the surface and get cut in or fed to animals if bag mowed I do 3’x 200’ beds with 5’ pathways for hoses or a zero turn mower it’s comfortable to walk bare foot
@Red-Tempest
5 ай бұрын
Do you grow mushrooms in your forest garden? I bet they would do amazing in the wood chips under a tree! Wine caps grow in wood and grow fast.
@veggiepatchideas
5 ай бұрын
Hi James, I do the same on my veggie plot and refresh my bed with the bottom layer of "Good stuff" from time to time 🙏🙏🌱🌱
@maryjane-vx4dd
5 ай бұрын
I had a 4 ft mulch pile with field bind weed growing through the center of it
@lindaseel9986
5 ай бұрын
We have a huge wood chip like. Maybe 5ft by 12 ft. Had pumpkins, rhubarb, DeadNettle, Mint growing in it. All volunteer. Then again, we live n xt to open field and no fence.
@maryjane-vx4dd
4 ай бұрын
@@lindaseel9986 the field bind weed was coming from the soil under the pile. That stuff is evil
@lindaseel9986
4 ай бұрын
@@maryjane-vx4dd Yes, that stuff is evil! So is Virginia Creeper. Getting under my house siding, and no matter how much I pull it out, it comes back..
@oliviareann
5 ай бұрын
How do you keep them from catching fire? I’ve heard stories of fires from mulch starting in yards and causing house fires
@teebob21
5 ай бұрын
Mulch fires are extremely rare. You need a giant pile of mulch and specific conditions where the mulch is simultaneously very hot as well as wet enough to generate biologic activity over 170F AND dry enough for nearby parts of the pile to start to smolder. If mulch fires were the issue people sometimes think they are, gardeners would be burning their houses down on the regular when they build compost piles.
Im jealous of you guys who can do this. Here in the south this is an invitation for the biggest fire ant bed known to man.
@casimiralexander
4 ай бұрын
Unfortunately my garden is in the South and close to my home. This technique would be a termite farm here in the South. Southern viewers beware. Love this channel, but this is for Northern climates.
@MM-ss1sr
4 ай бұрын
I live in Canada and no, termites have migrated up here. Used wood chips for years then spent thousands repairing termite damage. For mulch I use peat moss. The termites will eat it and ...... Starve to death 😊
@ladominaroque
5 ай бұрын
I eat the weeds. Also make medicine from them.
@NicolaiAAA
5 ай бұрын
Where I work we get in a lot of shipments and the boxes were great for collecting and laying down - mostly because they were essentially free! 🤣
@susanfennimore3152
5 ай бұрын
Don’t tell Amazon ! I do wish we could find a repurpose for styrofoam bxs we have many( medicine delivery) we even advertised to give away ,we have about 3 dozen now…
@johnlord8337
5 ай бұрын
While you cabn chip an area - we found this method works. In East SanFran Bay we have a lady where we put down 3-4 inches of chips onto her garden, 6-8 inches in her vineyard, and then 8-12-14 inches in the orchard. In 1 year, the vineyard already created 1 inch of black gold soil. Any covered over weeds, or new weeds popping up, were easily pulled out from the soft wood chips and soil. So one can easily overcome any weeds, instead of cardboard or a weed fabric etc. Just keep putting on wood chips, and easily pull out the deep root weeds in the chips and you will come out with great surface - with less energy in weed pulling,
@johnlord8337
5 ай бұрын
If you also spray down diluted ammonia onto the ground before putting down the wood chips - this nitrogen helps break down the chips faster. Chip composting and breakdown sucks up nitrogen from the soil. If you speed up the chip composition, this ammonia, nitrogen is then turned back into the black gold soil - no nitrogen is lost.
@elleeo1495
5 ай бұрын
Thanks, James! I didn't know about the contractor's paper. That will be super convenient for some areas & is relatively cheap. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ to Tuck!
@Frygonz
5 ай бұрын
Trying to do this now. If only my ChipDrop request from 3 years ago could get delivered!
@jellojoe00
5 ай бұрын
You have to renew request every six months
@thomasjensen609
5 ай бұрын
Also add a $ tip to your request.. sometimes $40. But only until you make friends with the driver. Then you can get unlimited deliveries
@tabp8448
5 ай бұрын
Yep! The arborists pay $20 to Chip Drop each time they use their service, so adding a tip DEFINITELY moves you to the top of the list. I've received 2 truckloads within days of requesting a drop simply by adding a tip @@thomasjensen609
@MzladyGrinn
5 ай бұрын
❤❤❤TUCK❤❤❤ 👑King of The Garden!👑 💞💞🙏🙏🙏💞💞
@vsExtra
5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, in my country we're not so rich in forests, so nowhere we can get woodchips. But I personally use a lot of straw to completely mulch the soil - like, minimal as 20 cm high. Works pretty good too.
@lindaseel9986
5 ай бұрын
Yes, straw or hay that is not good for the cattle anymore is a good choice. We have a friend who sold us hay bales that were mildewy and it made a great mulch.
@Josef_R
5 ай бұрын
The woodchips don't come from forests, they come from a company that cuts one tree out of a customer's yard.
@Colette-x6h
5 ай бұрын
Very interesting Sorry dude! The crap pine straw they use here in SC is some disgusting stuff! I removed all of mine and put down brown mulch….for now! Not rich and I moved from NJ 2018 to Denver and back east
@NordeggSonya
5 ай бұрын
💗💗💗💗💗🗨💋❤💛💚💙💜💜💜💜💜💜💜Hi Tuck!!!!😺😺😺
@breeda9196
5 ай бұрын
On the day I went out early to weed three overgrown shallow beds i made with a scrap picnic table. This upload gets put up like a message from the gardening gods. St. Prigioni comes bestowing wisdom upon me.
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
Haha! The wisdom was gifted to me by King Tuck 👑🐕
@breeda9196
5 ай бұрын
@@jamesprigioni He's a magnificent King who reigns Supreme over his backyard kingdom. Give the lil guy a good belly rub for me.
@breeda9196
5 ай бұрын
KZitem purging messages of me kindly responding to creators is next level censorship. Hopefully this stays up. Just wanted to say King Tuck reigns supreme over his backyard kingdom. Give him some belly rubs for me.
@jamesshirey9493
5 ай бұрын
I get tons of branches and limbs that fall in my yard. I got an electric chipper shredder for just over $100. It took some time, but I'm hoping it will be worth it.
@carissalizotte8977
5 ай бұрын
Watching this.. I just put in a new request for Chip Drop! 🙌🏽💚
@jamesprigioni
5 ай бұрын
Let's Gooo!!!
@lizlucey3812
5 ай бұрын
I think we’ve had three chip drops now 😅 we’ve almost got all our lawn gone. The neighbors think we’re nuts 🤣
@jardineriaenlaciudaddenewyork
5 ай бұрын
I like to use wood chips in my garden
@janetthornton7909
5 ай бұрын
I also used BTE method for my garden. After four years of adding chips and compost to the soil it is now rich black dirt.
@andygold
5 ай бұрын
Most of my yard is covered with White Pine trees. Can those pine needles alone be used for anything in the garden, or is the pH not good for anything?
@reneenewfrock5743
5 ай бұрын
Just took a fig and an apple tree out of the ground. Why? GOPHERS. So frustrating. Potted the fig in a big pot and will put the apple back in the ground with a humongous gopher cage. I HATE GOPHERS!
@jennyeh
5 ай бұрын
I like this idea but I have a question, if your area is prone to various types of termites wouldn’t this attract those? Love Tuck!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Your videos are so informative. I hope you and Tuck have a very blessed life. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
@sherimatukonis6016
15 күн бұрын
I can't get my compost hot enough to kill weed seeds. I grow in ground, with woodchip pathways and sifted woodchips to half inch for mulch. but because I make my own compost and use it to top dress, I still get weeds, especially chick weed.
@Vladpryde
5 ай бұрын
James, what about hog fuel instead of wood chips? Do you have any experience with it? Thanks! 🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀 Hey, you said "hearts", and that's a heart. 🤣
@CynthiaJKress
4 ай бұрын
Lots of great reminders in there for me James. Thank you for all you do. You and Tuck are awesome! 🥰
@renostubbs8504
5 ай бұрын
I have burnt my peppers with fertilizer,they are fighting,however. How can I save them from dying...I really want some help???
@njhw4990
5 ай бұрын
How do you deal with bindweed? I put 6" of wood chips and they're still poking through and I Think I got it from my free township mulch/wood chips 2 years ago,I don't reccomend it, it's in all my beds, big mistake!
@Howwerelivingfishing
5 ай бұрын
When laying cardboard and whatnot I don’t even bother trying to rip all of the tape off. There’s always going to be bits of plastics that I find and pick out of my garden as I go. Finding plastic in an urban garden is pretty unavoidable, and honestly I’m not concerned about it at all. Im more concerned bout herbicides, and if someone will let their dog pee on my lettuce lol. I really need a good plug for wood chips 😂
@billr8316
4 ай бұрын
James! I have an issue: I woodchipped my yard about 2.5 years ago, and didn't put any cardboard underneath--I only used cardboard paper that was thin. Fast forward to now, all the awful burmuda grass has re-taken over my yard and ruined my mulched yard. I'm so unsure what to do, especiallysince I'm concerned a layer of cardboard and chips on top could make the yard to high relative to my house. Should I have someone grade the top layer of my yard off, then heavy mulch with chips?? Please help! The permuda grass is the worst weed I've ever encountered, it takes over my garden beds in now time...
@CindyPurses
3 ай бұрын
I live in NJ, have a chain-link fenced-in yard. Do you have any suggestions how to prevent stray cats from using the wood chips as a litter box? And also, how to keep critters out like raccoon? The chain-link fence is strong, yet the raccoons were able to pry it up with their hands and get into my garden. The cats jump over and now come underneath the fence which the raccoon have opened the way for them. The chain-link fence is so strong, I am unable to bend it back down. I can't understand how these animals were able to pry it up! Your place looks like a Garden of Eden. Mine is like a War Zone. Thank you in advance for any advice you can give. I appreciate your channel so much!!!
@lindag9975
4 ай бұрын
Thanks! Great information. I had gravel removed from my Phoenix area backyard last fall and 6 to 8 inches of wood chips put down. Not a single weed has come through over the rainy winter. Yet my front and side yards with gravel got many pesky weeds. And the wood chips are already breaking down and building soil. I got mine through a free chip drop program that links arborists with gardeners. And many of the chips were even beautiful pine ones. But next time I might go directly to an arborist and request pine chips because the light color works with my yard.
@endokin6484
5 ай бұрын
Always enjoy the content/knowledge, thanx! Would like to see more behind the scenes and some of the leg work though.
@trevorhodge8335
4 ай бұрын
Watched your video on combining two different tomatoes together. Amazing, didn't know that was possible. Like your woodchip idea, but I plant everything in the ground in rows squash, beans ect. I've used the fabric because I hate weeding a lot. I also rotate everything every year, so they aren't growing in the same spot as last year. Just not sure how I could get the woodchip idea to work for me.
@brycefarrell9623
5 ай бұрын
Hi James from BC Canada what do you suggest for getting rid of sow bugs or roly poly bugs in raised veg beds we have tried DE but they still keep coming. Thankyou and God Bless.
@ContactsNfilters
5 ай бұрын
Uh, this did not work for me at all. I even doubled and overlapped the all the cardboard and then put down a couple truckloads of mulch. I must've got some acorns mixed in with the mulch because now I have some volunteer trees. But yeah, most of the cardboard broke down and now I have tons of weeds again, lots of nutgrass, quack grass, wild lettuce and wild sunflowers among the other stuff coming up. And the mulch still ended up mixed in with the dirt. I want my money back! 😂
@krob1n
5 ай бұрын
James&Tuck: living in NC, I have clay at least a tight as your silty soil out front or worse. How would you attempt making your front yard soil better without fully covering? Like do I just do an inch or two in front yearly to make my yard's soil better over time? Have you tried this?
@martinmercerjr8615
4 ай бұрын
I like how you use mulch, for weed control. But I don’t have a raised garden. I try to use weed blocker with mulch on top. But did not really work good. I tried grass clippings this year. My biggest problem is I some kind vine growing all over my garden. I try to control it. But it grows so fast and sometimes chokes my plants especially my cucumber plants
@ssstults999
4 ай бұрын
Great video. Very to the point and informative. God knows what he's doing, so i try to mimick nature in my garden. The wood chips and leaves mimick a forest floor which is very rich and always composting. Sometimes i let certain shallow root weeds grow as a ground cover. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos. I also enjoyed the video you and millennial gardener put out. That was fun.
@tjcihlar1
5 ай бұрын
As much as I like the idea of free wood chips from Chipdrop, paying money for bags makes it easier to deal with the chips one bag at a time. I agree arborist would be the best if I could have a better place to drop them besides on the curb. Don't do rubber mulch. Rocks/gravel works for some trying to do a high drainage garden, but it seems dirt will get in them eventually and they will still get weedy. And they do nothing to improve the soil. We have a small sloping lawn, I'm not sure how well the cardboard would be underneath. I worry about the eventual slide of the mulch and cardboard downhill. The cardboard may direct the water to just run off onto the sidewalk or gutter rather than soak into the ground underneath. Someone was commenting that mulch is bad because it gets mold. My comment was "so what?". Fungus and bacteria are essential for good soil. There is an entire soil food web, but he was more concerned about what chemicals could be used to kill dandelions and crabgrass. There was a fascinating study towards the end of this video where they were restoring a vacant lot with just planting snowberry vs well mulched snowberry. The unmulched snowberry had negative growth, the mulched ones took off kzitem.info/news/bejne/r46Cn6JohICeZHo
@Theartisticbanana027
5 ай бұрын
Thank you this is a big problem in my garden I’ll wood chips , question how do I prune hazelnut trees?.
@shellyneal7466
5 ай бұрын
I am trying this with cardboard and straw. Hope it works out. Thanks!
@micahbackwater9370
4 ай бұрын
This would have worked great in our garden if it weren't for the bindweed! Turns out a thick layer of mulch is a perfect growing medium for this annoying weed. Fortunately, bindweed does provide a habitat for plenty of beneficial insects and can be controlled with a weed whacker.
@Pjdlharvey
5 ай бұрын
Hi James, I love your channel and have learned a lot from you. This year my garden is growing for the first time in years. Oh and I am using raised beds this year. Thank you so much for all the great information. Now I was wondering if you have ever tried cotton seed hull mulch for your beds? I really want to try it but I wanted your opinion first.
@hoodninja1611
5 ай бұрын
How do you keep tuck from eating the wood chips, both of my dogs (Yorkie & staffy) both find random chips and devour them
@BDiHaze
4 ай бұрын
Appreciate your vids. We have ivy around our home from previous owner. Will this method help keep the ivy and weeds from growing back in the areas we want to plant flowers?
@catiepower3550
4 ай бұрын
Bind weed and wild strawberries are what I have a lot of. I laid down mulch to suppress the grass in the garden. Worked great but the bind weed and strawberries are persistent. It’s far less work so I’m not upset about it. I have heavy clay soil and wanted to mainly use the mulch to change my soil consistency.
@smb123211
5 ай бұрын
I got a huge load of chips and this Spring unbelievably the pyramid got so hot it caught fire. The middle (I let it sit for a couple of months) was ash. The bottom half was full of worms. But weeds are pushing through because they established themselves on top (easy to pull out). I got one of those curved hoes after seeing one in action. I have about 1/2 acre under landscaping so no time to weed. That hoe really worked. The other weed prevention technique is planting. Other plants is the best way to prevent weeds since they get no sun I have lots of flowers and shrubs with my veggies and this is far prettier than weeds. .
@lifestapestry2968
5 ай бұрын
Wood chips here in the UK are pretty expensive just paid £160 or $200 for a 1000 litre bag,
@Braisin-Raisin
4 ай бұрын
I use straw which I get for free. Woodchips in my country are not for free but very expensive. From Germany.
@joshua511
4 ай бұрын
Man, it's been 2 years since we've got any free wood chips. :( Paid for a couple yards for a pathway but I need some more.
@DenaHamilton
4 ай бұрын
I expect this wouldn’t allow your perennials to spread right? Your perennials always stay the same size.?
@sumdude4281
5 ай бұрын
One concern I've heard about this method is ground bee suppression. Most of your garden is pollinated by bees that build individual hives in the ground. Mulching I heard will bury them or block access to their hive. I don't believe they build nest in mulch only loose soil.
@agagaagaga1712
5 ай бұрын
Your video is exactly what I need now! Several days I am thinking to place about 12" of woodchips to suppress weeds and brushes which I got from previous owner of this house. It was like a jungle. Another benefits get rid of weeds is decrease amount of mosquitos. And I hope Millennial Gardener is watching your video, so he will remove his plastic cover. 🤣. Big heart for Tuck❤
@elizabethblane201
5 ай бұрын
I love chips but there is a use for plastic in certain applications.
@BrisLS1
4 ай бұрын
That cabbage at 0:18 - please, how do we prepare it and eat it? I have the exact same in my garden, just from some seeds I stumbled upon. Thanks.
@Ellen-ru2fr
4 ай бұрын
Also a fan of wood chips for weed suppression, have used it with great success, but weeds always find a way eventually, so they have to be refreshed from time to time! However, I don't use them at all as a mulch in my current garden, because proximity to the house is too much of a potential wildfire risk at the end of summer when everything is hot and dry and fires catch hold so easily.
@deborahplyler6528
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing , love the cherry tree the blooms look so pretty.
@2blueheelers1
5 ай бұрын
I love your videos!!!! I have a question about the metal raised bed with the insect cover: I have the same exact bed and netting that you have and i have been getting these small black flies flying around the top of the netting on the inside.. What can i do to prevent this..Thanks!!
@colinjaeger2508
4 ай бұрын
Hey James, what do you do for irrigation? Don't see a sprinkler setup, so is it just rain/hand watering?
@microsnook3
5 ай бұрын
I am still getting so many weeds and i used this cardboard method. I'm not sure where I went wrong. Your garden is a dream!
@imageword5576
5 ай бұрын
gaps in the cardboard + too thin of a layer of woodchips?
@elizabethblane201
5 ай бұрын
Most people who have trouble don't make the chips thick enough. It takes A LOT of chips to cover a yard. It takes a lot of work (I hire workers to spread it for me) to apply it, but it lasts for years and the rewards are great. I say minimum six inches.
@Queenie-the-genie
4 ай бұрын
That looks great but it too is a lot of work. Each year I am having fewer and fewer weeds from pulling them up by the roots. I think I might try the contractors paper for my trellis area though.
@susanneb9786
5 ай бұрын
I use woodchips. A concern I often read about, and even my neighbore sad something to me, is termites. Is this a real threat? Is it okay if I use the woodchips in my flower beds around the house too, or is this a no-no?
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