How many ways can I use wood chips on my property
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2019
- There are so many ways to use wood chips around the homestead. You can use them in the garden or orchard as mulch. You can use the wood chips in landscaping for walkways or paths. You can make compost out of wood chips. You can use the wood chips as bedding for animals. You can use wood chips to cover muddy areas in the barnyard. You can use wood chips in the pig pen to help keep the smell down. There are so many uses for wood chips. Today I am going to try to use up most of my pile of wood chips around the homestead.
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Good idea putting them in the pig pen and chicken coop. Next year clean out both, and put it on the garden or pasture, it will continue to break down and be great natural fertilizer.
Wood chips will not Rob your soil of nitrogen as long as you keep them on top of the soil.
If you work the chips into the soil it will deprive your soil of nitrogen.
Been using wood chips for a decade now with great success.!!!!
Roy Stacey yes only the very surface where the chips touch will experience any nitrogen loss but in a short time that too will actually reverse and the chips begin to feed the soil. None of the plant roots, (which are much lower) will even notice there is a slight nitrogen loss above ground. They will. However benefit from temperature regulation, moisture fixing and eventual decomposing of said chips.
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Bo McGillacutty LOL! Yup, soil health and plant health and environmental health is an interest of mine... even though I’m occasionally accused of being obsessed lol! Keep searching for REAL provable truths and don’t be afraid to try new things. In failure I have learned much.
@@Bigdaddyluv68 I lucked out with about the best soil on the planet, bottomless loam in lowlands farther NorCali. I've spread 3 truck loads of chips in recent months and expecting more. Have some 70 productive trees, bushes, vines and more coming. Apples to avocados. Essentially 100% organic, also make batches of 'biochar' from my burn piles. Things are pretty good but plenty more to learn.
Bo McGillacutty check out Oregon State University on UA-cam. They have some great videos that go deeper into soil hydration and swale catchment so that you do less work with better results. Good luck and GOD Bless.
I use wood chips on my driveway, works great and I no longer have standing water after a rain.
Like you put woodchips in your driveway or around it?
Where your grass won't grow, add some gypsum. It will convert clay back to topsoil. Add it fall and spring for a couple of years. It will start working way before that, but add it for a couple years. I do this wherever we dig and bring up clay. It works very well.
Can gypsum be put on grass as in a residential yard? Or on my flower beds which are mostly clay? Will it treat the underlying soil/dirt without killing the good grass that’s there ?
@@marcamp5450I use it on my grass, flower beds, vineyard, and everywhere else I grow things. I also use it on top of our septic mound to break up the clay there. Yes it is absolutely safe in a residential yard. It is the same stuff that drywall is made of. It wouldn't kill anything unless you dumped a large pile of it on something.
@@PlanetMojo thank you so much for responding. I have been fighting clay soil for years and am discouraged. Will do this. 💗
@@PlanetMojo thank you so much for replying. Will try this in the fall. 🤞for good results!
Carbon in the woodchips reacts with the nitrogen the pigs deposit and not only reduces the smell but enriches the soil as it enthusiatically composts. In your barnyard that will encourage bugs that your chickens will really enjoy eating.
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What a beautiful place you have.Just gorgeous
Man, you are genius, in the way you explain how beneficial wood chips for your land and livestock, keep up the good work
I use a 4 tine hay fork to shovel and move wood chips. Works better for me than rake or shovel.
I've been using bagged hardwood mulch from Lowes in the springtime for weed control for many years in our flower beds and it seldom lasts over a year. By the time next spring rolls around it is mostly broken down. Now the pine bark mulch seems to last a little longer. I use that around our azaleas and hydrangea because they like it. Our azaleas really like pine straw.
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Good information
Use things that you have and save
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Your place is really looking good great job Evan. Cheers
What a gorgeous house you have!!! (And thank you for the informative video too.)
We use them here on the walk trail around the cabin in South East Alaska.
Great video! A five tine fork is
A great way to handle mulch and wood chips, even compost. Highly recommend making the investment.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing. I’ve got some to put in my flower bed
Thanks for the humble tips.
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Good video!!!! We r doing back to eden garden. Hope to get some for my perennial/ orchard.
If you have a bare area with little to no tosoil. Try throwing some grass seed down then a bunch of hay over it. I’m not saying you’ll have golf course but I’ve been very surprised this year at how well it’s worked. Must be hay will make great topsoil over time.
Love this
You can use your old tire pile to build a space. It needs to be wide so you can move materials from one side to the other when you turn it over
Grow stropharia rugosoannulta (wine cap mushrooms) in the wood chips. Delicious!
Beautiful farm there brother. Very nice. 👍🏻
Very nice way to recycle the waste from the tree that you had cut down. One way that I use some of that is on my backstop at my shooting range. I don't just use wood chips, but also small trees that I dig out with my back hoe. I have the material piled up and dump excess soil on top of it to make the backstop and make my shooting just a little bit safer. Eventually over the years it should probably make a little "hill".
Over the years the trees will rot down leaving a very rich bed to plant.
I use them to fill raised planting beds and then add your planting soil on top
Use wood chips to suppress weeds on the footpaths in the garden, after they compost just shovel them to where the plants can benefit from them.
Damn nice property
Hi Evin. My name is Daniel and i own an Integrated Organic Farm in Tamil Nadu India. I use wood chips in my farm. I want to Thank You for your valuable information about the effective ways to use wood chips in a farm
You have an organized farm. Thanks once again.
Nice
Orchard looks so good
I get to bingeing on your videos and be late to work....
What I have found is that wood chips placed on the top of soil will not steal Nitrogen except the top couple of inches and it takes 2 or 3 years to compost. After 2 or 3 years I turn it under and then you really have a nitrogen problem. I usually add a layer of grass clippings to the chips when I mix it in. Then add some Blood Meal for the next year or two to satisfy the nitrogen depletion.
you can smother it with nitrogen fixers like cow peas also, then chop them before they make peas.
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Hey even another thing if you had a wood chipper you could run the chips through twice to chip them smaller
When the wife said you need to bring home the bacon, she didn't mean pig's.$ lol kidding. At least she didn't say bing home a couple of chicks.lol. You have a nice place there. Wood chips do make it look better then straw. The trees should do better since the grass won't rob the water from them. Love the house the wood chips were in front of. Thanks for video.
Perhaps you could mulch around your chestnut trees as well ;)
i also use woodchips in my landscape- i subscribed
Joel Salitan calls wood chips in a livestock pen a "carbonacious diaper."😂
Naked soil is wrong. Chips are fantastic compared to dust, mud, eroding soil and instant dehydration. When I have my plants mulched I broadcast the rest including thin layer on lawns.
Put you some Ag Lime on that dirt. Dose wonders for mud!
Thanks for sharing.
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I’m a certified arborist and also have a degree in forestry. Do use of wood chips are quite beneficial however I noticed you mention them being used as animal bedding to Will Chips I would not recommend for this purpose would be what chips from a cherry tree. Which are toxic to animals. Also walnut chips are phytotoxic I would not suggest use these in your garden beds perhaps areas you wish to keep weeds down...
The phytotoxic effect you mentioned is not a problem if the chips are not in the soil and are greatly diminished in about a year.
Are pine wood chips good for fruit trees?
Great video. Thank you! One thing -- please expose the root flares of your trees. That will allow them to thrive.
How so? Moist soil and the fungi and bacteria thrive inturn allowing the tree to thrive
Bro next time you get chips drop. Drop them in your food forest/ orchard. Spread all over the grass. Your trees will explode in growing. Your tree trunks will never burn. I have my trees in 8 inches of woodchips.
They prevent forest fires?
Hey even maybe you should invest in a wood chipper for all of your brush and some wood that would save in buying hay or strall
This video just popped up again tonight. Turn your garden into a food Forest for one thing.
Add some solar water pump fountains to your pond.
Would it be a good idea to mix the wood chips (carbon) with beer waste (nitrogen) then mulch around the tree?
Neat tip about the pigpen
+ high N with the chips & a potential garden bed or scoop & use compost after grow out season.
Are you still getting the chestnut seeds for starting? Are they hybrids or from a local nursery ?
What zone are you guys in 5?
thanks for sharing
I believe we are zone 5B
The chestnut seeds are from chestnut ridge of pike county. It is a chestnut orchard that has dunstan chestnut trees. An american/Chinese hybrid. I will get more seeds in the fall.
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If you put stone path use membranes
Our pigs love wood chips
Our pigs seem to love wood the wood chips too.
Do you recycle the wood chip from your chicken coop by putting them around the fruit trees and plants in order that the poop will serve as a natural fertiliser while the wood chip serves a good medium. Can you think of any possibility that that might be detrimental to the plants for whatever reason?
Who built your house?how deep is your pond?
bonjour , you should put straw over the grass seed ( next to the house ) held to keep humidity and prevent ?? do not know the word ( losing the seed went big rain )
jac l erosion.
@@cathiwim merci , my English is not perfect .
Nothing, including woodchips, should touch the bark of your trees clear down to the root flare. If those trees are planted as deep as they look, you will need to leave a wider moat around them to make sure none of the chip materials falls down to touch the bark.
Pigs need a mud bath area to cool down and to cover in mud so they don't get sun burnt
with prices back in the united you better get those wood chips off your tree trunks wood chips will rot those tree trunk when the bark is compromised on your trees from the
OMG thank you for saying something about the mulch against the tree trunks! I was yelling at the screen until you did that. ;-) I've seen so many people mulch incorrectly I think I have some sort of pent-up mulch rage LOL. I too, have a big pile of wood chips for exactly the same reason as you, took a tree down. So far, I've mulched some perennial beds, my garlic and fall-planted potato beds, and my blackberry beds. I have had (crab)grass walkways for a long time, but they are a big pain between my trellises. I'm thinking about spreading the rest of the mulch as walkways. Really on the fence about that. I know it's been awhile since you published this video. Did you find that the wood chips as walkways harbored pests? That's what I'm most concerned about. Thanks and great video!
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Make wood pallets
You have a bucket on the tractor, but spread the mulch by hand in the barnyard. Looks exhausting.
Don't volcano mulch your trees. This encourages root root and basal decay. Your feeding roots are away from the base of the tree, a few inches under the soil.
What woodchipper did you use or did someone else do it for you? Trying to decide on which woodchipper to purchase.
That was wood chips from a tree cutting service.
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Wood chips pellets...
Wrote too soon. Apologies. I see you know what you're doing.
I am going to cover my entire weed only yard with woodchips...then add stones and plants...
How many acres do you own.
Are these wood chips ? looks more like it is shredded wood
Cover where they poop it will be good compost
One problem with wood chips around a building is that they attract ear wigs ,not nice close to your house
The solution is chickens or ducks.
can it be used for bedding
Yes it could.
Wood chips will suck the nitrogen out of soil only if you mix it in. If you use wood chips to cover the soil. you are safe.
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When are you gonna clean up that concrete pile in your barnyard ? It's such an eyesore , and you have such a nice area there.
I plan on doing it sometime soon. I have a list of about 30 things to do, it seems to stay at the bottom of the list.
Overfilling your wheelbarrow = less trips
right? i overfill it to the max, and THEN put a grate on top and pile that to the sky
Do you know that wood chips are very dried up and very light, when ignited and blown by the wind, they can create havoc like in California where houses and forests were burn down?
The wood chips will rob N only on the surface of the soil
Why he didn't charred them? They would absorb the bad smell and pee...you would lose only a half to 2/3 of wood mass during the charring...plus soil after that would be GODLY!
Mix with the soil after one year of use, and get 2-10 times more crops! No joke !!!
(depends of the degree of aridity)
Don't they require mud to protect their skin? oh sorry missed the bit about leaving their mud bath lol
Be careful using wood chips around newly hatched poultry. Only use wood chips from softwood trees like pine. Chips from hardwoods can give off a gas that will blind baby poultry.
Hmmm, that’s interesting, I’ll have to look into that.
I sure wish you'd remove Mount Cinderblock from the barnyard. It's a safety hazard for all involved. I'll shut up now.
It has been removed. There is a video on that.
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Water must be tight round there for you to hang the waterer from the rafters , or is that entertainment ?
Hope u never chip up a cedar tree and bed chicken coop with it , has highest toxic levels when it dampens it releases toxins and chickens just fall over ...
Be careful using woodchips around your trees so they dont rot out
Yeah, I wouldn't put the chips right up next to the trunk of a tree. Leave a little space there.
Long to decay.better is kitchen compost or human urine as fertilizer
no wood chips are best thay absorb smell
Boring, video too long, nothing new re uses for woodchips