WHY ARE YOU USING WOOD CHIPS??? HAVE YOU JOINED THE CULT???
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- To every thing there is a time...
...and today is a day for chopping and dropping and mulching in the Grocery Row Gardens. Time to use these wood chips for something!
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To every thing there is a time...
...and today is a day for chopping and dropping and mulching in the Grocery Row Gardens. Time to use these wood chips for something!
Get the little Grocery Row Gardening book - amzn.to/3t4t26K
GARDEN HEAT: A Jack Broccoli Novel - amzn.to/31w7nco
Perennials really love mulching, and the Grocery Row Garden system is based around perennials. This should really help it thrive in the spring.
If life gives you woodchips...
Mulching and tilling....I knew you would sell out..... smh
Really enjoy the content and your spirit, man.
I’ve been going back and forth with using chip mulch, grass mulch and the chop and drop methods... (using chip mulch with your perennials) is a gold bar* for sure!
Stay Free ! ✌️ 💨
Starting GRG from scratch in NW Iowa zone 5a in a 3700 sqft backyard.
WooD CulT nice , I'm in 👍
Right on brother😮
I sometimes wonder why I watch your channel - different continent, climate, and food needs, smaller garden, small allotment. Then this video reminded me...you have a totally anarchic way of gardening, breaking the rules, not slavishly following one formula but taking a bit from this system, a bit from that, with a pinch of another. Not taking yourself too seriously, allowing yourself to try things out and, if it doesn't work out, try something else, and even changing your mind entirely but doing what you want in your hybrid way that suits your way of life. It's liberating - thanks.
That is very kind of you, Treesa. Thank you.
I watch for the laughs. 😍😂🇦🇺
@Kerri
Me too haha he’s very funny
Best comment ever! I just found this guy and I have to say his channel is a breath of fresh air
@@davidthegood hi. I’ve been watching some of your vids. Hopefully you or one of your viewers can give me a comment about what I’m doing. I live in an old lakebed and it’s sand bed, no clay, soil, dirt, just sand. A helpful neighbor has been delivering horse manure to me. I season it over the winter and mixed it in twice the last two seasons to growing area with better results than just sand. This year I’ve mixed greens (garden, lawn), as well as wood chip with the manure for composting and so far this season turned it over twice to be ready for next spring. Probably a ton or more so far. Is this a good mix for the sand to provide more all around nutrients or am I spinning my wheels?
David the good: " I totally don't like mulching."
2 minutes later.
Chops and drops the whole garden as mulch on the beds.
Deep mulch is amazing but it definitely has its nuances and tricks one must learn. I had a 5 acre area covered in deep mulch. In the beginning I did everything by pitch fork and wheelbarrow, that was about 2 acres. It was certainly a workout. Once I got a track steer machine it was a game changer. Deep mulch just needs a tractor or skid steer. Add some patience and you will create massive amounts of amazing soil. After 3-4 years I f that method I was farming in 18-24 inches of compost. You could pull plants and weeds out with the entire root structure intact that’s how friable the soul became. It also acted as a thermal buffer and we were able to grow even in the hottest summer months here in Fort Lauderdale. My first couple years were full of failures with some successes. I watched, experimented, and experimented again because I had faith it would work. Deep mulch gardening is like making deposits in an account. They only deposit as they decompose. Layer after layer and you have a wealth of soil from which to “draw interest”.
interesting... for us city boys, can you rent something like that for a day, would it be worth it or does it take a lot of time.... I have about a half of acre that I would be doing at this time.
I agree. It takes a few seasons to establish. Takes about 3 seasons if you start with green chips. A lot of folks give up after the 1st season.
I've been getting better results using 10 inches of shredded leaves as mulch over the chips in the fall for topping/maintaining.
@@keithpharr1408 you can rent them but for smaller areas I would just use a wheelbarrow, pitchfork, and a hard rake. I just moved a 15 yard truckload into my backyard last month. (New house with a shady backyard that won’t grow grass. ). It took me about 3 hours of solid work. You could break that up over a few days. Better if you can get the tree trimmers truck into your back yard and have them dump where you want it. Then start at the top and rake the pile out to 4-6 inches
@@newearth1912 yes a mix of leaves and wood is really ideal. The leaves bring some nitrogen when green and help begin to compost the chips. The best chips/deep mulch comes from branches that get trimmed rather than a tree removal that has a lot of the trunk.
Wood chips are AWESOME. I turned my 100% hard pan clay soil, here in Western Kentucky, into soft, black, humus and have never looked back. I don't know why everyone doesn't do it!
The only reason I don't do more of it is cost. I have never gotten one chip of wood from those free drop-off websites. And the last town we lived in, the city and all the tree companies dumped their chips off at a private company who in turn sold them to people. Might as well just buy compost at that point, y'know? We have some Bradford pears on our new property that have to come down anyway, so we'll have those branches all chipped up and that will help us a lot. I'm in north Eastern TN, and we have that thick heavy clay, too.
@roostershooter76, what part of West Kentucky? I have family there.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 you can deep mulch with leaves or hay/straw as well. We use both chips and leaves. I rotate the chickens every year into the areas I grew the previous year. I deep mulch the chicken run (last years garden) with wood chips and run it over with the mower to chop up the larger pieces. In the fall I take all the free leaves I can get from my neighbors and chop it all up with my mower, I ended up with 3” of chipped leaf mulch on a 20X48 area. I don’t like the coarse wood chips on top of my active garden bed because inevitably I’ll go out there in flip flops and get skewered in the toes or feet with the worlds strongest and sharpest most jagged wood shard. I also got a LOT of chips dumped three years ago, and I’ve been letting them rot since. I’m hoping that after another year they’ll be rotted enough that the large pieces aren’t as bad. I’ll still chop them up with my mower either way, lol!!!
@@Combat_Pyro Yes I do much the same with leaves and that kind of thing, run 'em over with the mower a couple times. I let my front yard grow three feet tall last year before mowing it and harvesting all that fresh rich organic matter :)
Leaves and weeds and grass and hay are a fantastic resource. Big round bales of hay are readily available and cheap here; we'll be having at least two delivered this spring.
I started using them a few years back and have had great success, I’m in Kentucky as well
Drop it like it's hot! Bout blew coffee out my nose this am watching you chop and drop. Tomatoes in Jan. Amazing what the plants do when they don't listen to the "experts".
Started a “legit” garden this year so I’ve turned to UA-cam for much of my education. I found your channel today and I freaking love it. Your sense of humor is great, your knowledge is endless, your passion exudes (see what I did there) from your pores, and the way you do the whole anarchy gardening is refreshing. Keep killing it, well actually growing it my new found friend. I hope god blesses you with a great crop and many blessings!
Thanks David. It was a very good year for peppers. It's been my experience that when it's hot and dry the peppers get hotter. This year I gave them an abundance of water during the hot, dry season and then came the rainy season. I wanted to check out my theory. Sure enough my peppers were not as hot as they have been in past years when I didn't give them the extra water. Much Love
I spent most the summer evacuated due to the Dixie fire and when I returned home to my garden that had no water for 2 months my jalapeños were ready for harvest and I made the mistake of using a whole pepper in my BBQ sauce....... They were the hottest damn jalapeños I've ever tasted lol. I do love hot food but damnnnnnnn.
I’ve been experimenting with trench sheet composting of wood chips. The last two years I dug 12”X12” trenches every four feet the length of the garden and filled the trenches packed full with composting wood chips. After a year of walking on them and the dirt washing down into them from the raised beds, they were pretty composted. I decided to till the garden beds because it was the first year and we have like 70% clay soil. When I filled it up, the composted wood chips in the paths was some of the darkest richest composted mulch I’ve ever seen. That was two years ago now, and I’m back onto that garden this year. When I dug to take soil samples for testing the soil was like chocolate cake at least 8” deep. I have really high hopes for this years production. Haven’t gotten the test results yet.
Update: 03132022
Soil test results came back. CEC was 8.18, pH 7.2, OM 5.4%, N 81.75lbs/ac, P 227lbs/ac, K 391lbs/ac, Ca 2509lbs/ac, S 14lbs/ac, Mg 243lbs/ac, Na 25lbs/ac, B .92lbs/ac, Fe 878lbs/ac, Mn 75lbs/ac, Cu 3.24lbs/ac, Zn 22.2lbs/ac
Looks like my Phosphorus, Sulfur, Calcium, Boron, & Copper are low, but not bad. OM @ 5.45%!!! All the analyst suggested to add was nitrogen. I added N, P, S, Ca, B, & Cu on top of the mulch and watered it in. Onions, Carrots, and Brassicas are all SUPER happy so far.
That’s so exciting! How did it look?
I realize there are many ways to have success in the garden. I live in the Missouri Ozarks. When we moved to the place where we currently live I used woodchips, woodchops and bioactive teas. We had endless veggies in a soil that was red clay and rocks. Use what is available. I believe you agree!
Arkansas, river valley area. Poor Sandy soil here. Reckon that would be effective?
@@lpmoron6258 Absolutely. Danish land developers used to take six years to turn reclaimed ocean floor into farmland; they now do it with generous wood chip cover innoculated with worms in just 9 months!
I just found your channel and have been binge watching. Love your content but especially your wit. I’ve sorely needed a bit of humor added to my days. Your delivery is untouchable. Fan for life!
Welcome, Diane - thank you.
For corroboration, refer to Michael Phillips' book The Holistic Orchard which also includes a last chapter on berry plants. Both fruit trees and berry plants do great in up to 6" of wood mulch, although anything that decomposes via fungal forms will suffice (generally called "fungal duff"). Worms feed on the fungus and their pellets feed the trees. Worm burrows areate the soil, too.
Great video David however my compliment is aimed at the post you aired just before Christmas. Thank you for posting about our Savior and his birth. The world needs this message. God bless you and yours. Havagudun brother.
Setting the mulching argument aside for a moment..Of all the vintage lenses you’ve shot with, this Yashinon is a winner..between the resolution, color rendition and contrast it creates a beautiful image..hope to see more videos made with this one.
“And I have the sales numbers to prove it” I almost died. 😂😂
David, you make me laugh out loud in every video, so I bought your grocery row book, and will be buying your Jack Broccoli novels and hope the make me laugh as much as the cover art did. I appreciate your practical gardening sense, and understanding and teaching that everyone isn't growing in the same environment. I'm in the mid-south, and I think wood mulch would hold too much moisture here unless it's a drought year. One size does not fit all in the garden.
Thank you - if you like my humor here, you'll enjoy Jack Broccoli.
I had to hold my ribs while laughing. So nice to listen to someone that has clean speech. No swearing, really appreciate it
I'm dying as you are cutting those peppers down! I love HOT peppers....😭
🤣🤣🤣
As David mentioned, whenever possible I'd prefer to have some "green" nitrogen-rich material mixed in with those chips. They'll develop actual soil a lot faster that way.
There's a LOT of folks out there who misunderstood (or never actually read) the "Back to Eden" concept and expect amazing results from nothing but chipped wood (that is not what he wrote about at all). Then they're disappointed by the results and claim woodchips don't work.
It's not magic. It's just composting in place mimicking the forest floor, and it requires a good mix of green and brown material to work best. Sometimes you get that from tree company chips, but generally not. Something to keep in mind if you want to really build up soil as well as just cover the soil.
Yes, that's right. I've watched the film a couple of times and he mentions the compost he adds.
@@davidthegood it's all laid out clearly on his website, too. But lots of people who talk about it, clearly never read it or watched the film.
@@davidthegood would chicken litter work?
"Don't do gardening that you don't like" and "don't eat peppers that are too hot"
Notes taken!!
That would make a great t-shirt;)
Cheers
I picked up and read Grocery Row Gardening. Like all of David's work, it is effective at communicating and inspiring for action, and it just makes sense! Go buy a copy.
Myself, I'm off to grab the next Jack Broccoli Novel. Can't believe I missed it's release.
I found you on UA-cam a month or so ago. Can’t get enough from a fellow Alabamian with humor and shared values. Just received two of your books today: Grocery Row Gardening & Free Plants for Everyone.
Thank you - welcome, Ally.
Deep mulch works for me because Southern California is a dry-ish climate and specially inland it’s predominantly low Relative humidity levels so it doesn’t create a snail/slug heaven and being in decomposed granite soil it really keeps the moisture in for months after a good rain.
I LOVE the look of wood mulch!! We just bought a new to us house. They had black weed cloth everywhere. Mulch is so much better looking
I make “candied jalapeños” by cooking sugar with vinegar to a boil, drop in sliced peppers. Cooking them makes them much milder and candying them makes them sweet and delicious!! Terrific on pizza
Welcome to the cult 😜 We grow peppers for seasoning, not as a food item of themselves .. a pinch of Szechuan peppercorns, and a half-pinch of cayenne grind up to produce something that tastes just like black pepper, which we can't actually grow here. Cannas have turned out to be massive calorie producers here in 7a, along with things like peanuts .. but they need seasoning - onion, garlic, Szechuan and hot pepper are good, as is rosemary .. all good stuff for a grocery row garden
Yes! Sally produced 2 giant live oaks worth of wood chips last winter. We spread the chips around fruit trees and perennials. Nothing suppresses weeds and holds moisture in the soil underneath like those wonder chips. Right now my whole back yard smells like a mushroom for all the mushrooms of every shape and color growing in those chipd!
My chaste tree lived for many years and attracted every sort of pollinator around. It was so popular, it always seemed to be dancing. I hope to have another one, soon. But I’m literally running out of space in my yard. Oh well.
I had truck envy there for a minute- then I realized you borrowed it... Still, those 90's fords with 7.3L diesels ran forever. :) I also hate shoveling mulch, so very encouraging to watch.
We are in north FL and man oh man the amount of tomatoes I'm getting right now is crazy.... and they are the sweetest ones I've ever had!!! 💚
Watching from UK. Fascinating. I have a small allotment and use chop and drop all the time.
I have a row of chaste trees on the edge of the property to block the neighbor’s driveway. They are gorgeous and I was amazed at the bumble bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. The trees were covered.
I agree! I have been watching Jim Kovaleskis method of the Grass Fed Garden. I have seen huge success with this. I just my pretending to be a goat for the day and pulling grasses and weeds and just mulching the garden beds. After a full season of letting the grass lay down on the soils, I am amazed. I pulled back grasses and found so many beautiful earthworms living happily and composting for me. Beautiful design God made. And my children do not agree that mulch gardening is better when kids do it! haha! So growing my gardens in rows next to rows of grass I can easily mow down is what I am trying to implement.
I really don't like mulching but I am this year to build up my soil. I don't use woodchips though. Leaves, banana tree scraps and some palm leaf leftovers. Just chopping it and dropping it everywhere. Only the first year in my garden. Hoping to have a year off of mulching next year. Chopping it by hand can be mind numbing sometimes, therapeutic others.
We always grow a ton of super hots. I love the spice. We planted about 100 various pepper plants last year.
That's awesome.
I started doing the grocery row gardening last year with you. It's a small row. Like only 6 feet. But I have several other areas that I plan on developing.
That is awesome - please share pics as it grows!
Thanks for the tips. Always enjoy your channel.We finally got some cold weather in Mobile. I want a little more to make the fruit trees dormant so I can trim them.
I know! My peaches are in full bloom!
@@davidthegood Mine too! If we can just get through Feb.
Sulfur in your soil makes peppers hotter. I fed one of my Beaver Dam plants sulfur this summer and it was eye-watering. Normally they're very mild, and the other plants were basically bell peppers.
I put down wood chips in the fall when i started my garden in my new property. Come spring, when planting (especially carrots), i realized i didnt like planting in wood chips. Now the wood chips are in the pathways and i cover the beds in chopped leaves or straw/manure in the fall. Works better for me.
Missed the Goodstream David, but here listening to the replay, lol..😂Jalapeños that are very hot, like habaneros! Its weird, usually the Jalapeños are milder and Serranos and Habaneros spicier, HOTTER, but making a stirfry this sunday I tossed two huge serranos in and the stirfry instead of being a combo between sweet(I add agave syrup)and hot(2 serranos should do it), the stirfry came out sweet!😂And yet the stirfry before this one, had me gasping for air,drinking water or nibbling on corn chips, hoping to make the heat subside. Sun-ripened on the vine and fresh tomatoes in January, you're totally CRUSHIN' IT David!
Interesting that this 'weird' phenomenon happens with 'serrano peppers' as well. When I've made & canned 'Cayenne Pepper Jelly', (with enough 'Cayenne Hot Peppers' to cause PAIN), my Jelly came out totally deliciously 'Sweet Pepper' flavored, with NO Pepper Heat at all. There must be some kind of chemical reaction when cooking Hot Peppers with Sugar, (&/or or some other sweeteners evidently).
I was finally able to get wood chips by asking a guy at the gas station. He had a large chip truck (14 cu yds) with a larger chipper in tow. So far I’ve gotten 3 full loads. I’ve already put down a thick layer of cardboard, compost and straw. Wood chips are next so it can work all winter. Still have a bit more cardboard to put down and cover, but 2/3 of it is ready for the chips as soon as there is a break in the snow and sub-freezing temps. Can hardly wait for spring.
Score!
If your soil is too sandy, a thick layer of woodchips is just what you need. I put my garden under 6in of woodchips one winter the year I quit tilling, and it made permanent changes to the soil. I'm about to have to move my garden, so I'm probably going to do that again this winter
I'm a novice gardener at best, so I Googled how to increase capsaicin in peppers, and it said that stress increases it, so maybe the stress of how you prune them is the cause.
I love your content, I've learned alot from you.
Thanks, God bless!
Stress might, but you also get much less yield from stressed peppers. Pruning isn't all that stressful for plants either. I find home grown jalapenos to be spicier than store bought regardless
@@juliaf_
Thank you, I am a novice, so I appreciate your input.
Super cool t-shirt! Makes me want to do the "Fun-gus Boogie" to attract all that Soil Life to my sugar sand.
Hey David, how's the crazy mixed up garden growing. I really like the idea. I have lots of space but not a lot of free time so I'm thinking about doing the same, chucking it all in, set up a sprinkler and come back when stuff grows 😆
I live in Florida and started a habanero plant last July ish and it's been growing throughout the winter and I already have fruit set on it and that's after pruning it prior to Winter starting, it is still putting out tons of growth lol Florida is awesome 👌
Hot peppers love Florida!
@@davidthegood Definitely been proven over years of growing 😆 I love it!
Hi David…. Mother Nature has been a little chaotic this year… well last year 2021. Upper Northern Nevada here in the high desert…. Last summer the fire smoke from surrounding states let little sunshine thru. Some days it was just a thick black smoke. My garden did a little but I put it to bed early & haven’t even thought about cool crops lol 😂. Last summer we top at 120 & now winter we’re seeing down to -4 with snow & ice. Our weather is much like Dirtpatcgheaven, only she braves the cold. At my age I’ll pass that as the heat is tough enough Lololol
I know it’s not good to be jealous of what others have but I am of those who can garden year round ⭐️ Love how you talk & work in a gentle way.
Have a great garden day 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
That is a tough climate. You must be tough!
I’m in Jupiter FL and I planted some Everglades 2 years ago. They are now the predominant weed on my property. Just be careful, they can take over. I get them throughout the year and don’t have to plant them anymore.
I think this is my most favorite David The Good video ever :)
I have just cleaned my vegie beds & chopped n dropped..feels good!!😁
It’s -25°C here. . . Seeing green plants right now is so ‘humph’ 🙁😢 I want SPRING now!
Isn’t throwing wood chips like dig dig diggity dig?
I just started my Channel 2 weeks ago, Not sure what direction it will go yet. I have learned a lot from your channel and for that I thank you. Learned your name from Bobblehead Homestead.
Welcome, and good luck!
While I love spicy many folks I know don't so a pickled pepper recipe I've used that tempers the heat a lot is the thai sweet method. It uses sugar to make a sweet and spicy mix but I also add ginger, garlic, and some lemon grass if I have it. I find it tempers the heat quite a bit and people can enjoy them a lot more AND that combo of sweet heat works so much better for things like ramen, pizza, sandwhiches, and even stuffing into a pork roll with some cheese. Blanching the cut peppers once before re-blanching when adding the hot water to the pickling jar also tempers them down. I've found standard pickling seems to enhance the heat almost! Good for me, but not for people who dislike heat!
Hot ones are also good for seasoning oil for frying in, you only need a little for the flavor and the heat is mild. Great for fish, chicken, or shrimp. I'd have loved to have taken all the too hot stuff off your hands to make hot sauces and for enjoying but I'm strange and can enjoy ghost peppers fresh off the plant.
How ironic that this video popped up in my feed today... I stopped moving mulch halfway through the fifth truckload. It's 'only' 78 degrees F with a real feel of 84 for a high today, but even with hydrating, replenishing my electrolytes and having lots of breaks (and lunch), I still started to feel like I was pushing myself too hard for one day. I barely put a dent in the pile in my driveway! It's literally two truckloads from the local power company, aka a small mountain. I have another pile the same size in the back of my property for another garden space I've been chipping away at. I originally planned on using it there partly because that land is slightly sloped, and I'm using logs from us cutting up trees that fell on our property to build some natural retaining walls to terrace the slope and make it more friendly for gardening without losing the precious topsoil I've been working on creating to the torrential rains, because here there is no topsoil, just clay and kudzu. 😑 And so far what has been added to that garden has done the job of holding soil in place! Yeah, I'm a fan of what wood chips can do to create good loamy soil over time, but MAN is it backbreaking work, even with a truck, small tractor and large carts to haul the chips where they need to go. I just keep telling myself I can't eat an elephant in one sitting. 😂😂😂
Your Grocery Row Garden book rocks!
I've seen pepper greens in the Asian store freezer. Salivating watching you butcher those plants. Bacon and cream....
Got the book, making plan!!!! We should be on our property mid winter
Awesome! Congratulations.
Hello David. I live in Colorado in a dry and cold climate, so the wood chips are a very good addition to the garden. I like not having to weed as often. Have you thought about using the cardboard and wood chips in your paths? Thank you for sharing.
I have, yes, but it's easier to wheel hoe.
I like the way this looks. Nice job with the lense.
Thank you. It's the Canon "nifty 50," which is a cheap modern lens.
Had the same issue with hot peppers down here on Texas coast… no idea why but the jalapeños are just way too hot along with everything else
You can grow strawberry plants with asparagus.
Great stuff 😊
First year my jalapenos were awesome. Second year crop from the same bush was inedibly hot! Might need to replant every year for an edible crop.
In Oklahoma we are at 8 with wind chill of -2! Feeling a bit jealous.
I have a hot pepper tree called Capsicum Pubenses. It produces a ton of overly hot red rocoto type peppers. Couldn't even give them away. I dehydrated about 200 of them and add them one at a time to soups and stews for spice. The rest got made into fermented hot sauce. I never make my hot sauce 100% hot peppers. I use 2/3 sweet peppers and 1/3 hot peppers. 2 tbs salt in each quart of water fermented for 10-15 days with an airlock. I freeze batches of it all summer and then we have nice hot sauce all winter. I've never tried it but some people candy hot peppers. Sounds like yours would have been too spicy for that recipe. Try the fermented pepper sauce with sweet and hot peppers.
Deep wood chips chips to improve heavy clay soil for the first several years has its benefits. Especially after those chips have sat a few years and has fungal activity running throughout it.
If you are re-starting your plant nursery wouldn’t you be ahead to root those tomato clippings and sell larger plants than anyone else come Spring planting time? 🤔
You know you can make your own pepper spray with all of those hot peppers that you are tossing, right?
Crazy that you have Canna lilies blooming in January. As pretty as I think they are I don’t want to deal with plants that I have to dig up and store through the winter.
That mulch tossing is better than the workout you are getting at the gym working out with weights. 😊
Yes - we deep mulched our hard clay garden in Tennessee and it made a huge difference. Everything was wonderful, until the drainage ditch overflowed and blew through our garden, stripping all the soil and mulch away down to the hard clay.
@@davidthegood I'm in TN on red clay now, have been for a decade. It's definitely a challenge to get (and keep) roots down into that clay to hold everything together.
I'm going to try it in NW Arkansas. Zone 6b-7a.
Growing up our peppers were always insanely spicy. We had poor soil and acidic rain.
We would just jar them and have them for years. Give them as gifts.
I made a carribean sirracha sauce with them. It was good.
Dave!!!! If this is well beyond the ordinary, don't neglect to save some jalapeno seeds off those crazy peppers! Extra hot genetics may be valuable to some pepper breeder elsewhere on UA-cam! Hotness is like a status symbol or something in the world of peppers!!! Maybe even try to save cuttings/vegetative clones?
Yeah. Have Daisy post them on Etsy. I buy all her stuff. Just waiting for spring with seeds in hand
I have a skid steer and unlimited mulch brought to me. So for me it makes sense to have a large area food garden with wood chips
That is a blessing
Wood chips control weeds and help maintain moisture. I love em!
Love our growing ability here in the south,
Never throw away pepper. I dehydrate them and turn them into chili powder.
It was sad to see 😢
"Maybe mulch gardening is more fun if you have your kids do it." LOL Absolutely! 💯
Really enjoyed the video! Gunna put a chaste tree in my "pig" garden this year!
Oh my gosh! You pepper jokes are hilarious! 🤣
Started building our first GRGs last month. Not sure of our equivalent USDA growing zone... we're in subtropical Southeast QLD, Australia. Summers are very hot and humid, and winters are very mild. We rarely, if ever, get frost where we are. Maybe a weeks worth of brief dips to 0 deg C? We already have a lot of fruit trees in the ground. Most are in a rambling food forest, but some are thankfully out in the open, and in loose rows, so I am building 3 approx 6m long Grocery Rows around those. We could probably do the syntropic banana thing here, but I hate having to follow someone else's rules, and would rather have the freedom to do what I feel like, hack what i want and when i want, and plant when I'm able to do it.
Awesome.
All of my tomato plants were full of blooms and tomatoes until Sunday, and it got down to 26. They're all gone now.
i like the "Whoops Camera out LOL Nope!" moment at 4:52
Hmmm... chocolate chips!
No wait...wood chips? Yes good for my garden. I'm going to bake some cookies now and read Garden Heat a Jack Broccoli novel.
Southern weather has been crazy this year. Hot one week and freezing cold the next, my plant are so confused. On the bright side, I'm making cookies like boss.
I always specifically find mammoth jalapenos, they are much more mild, every time I get generic jalapeno 6 packs they're always nuclear hot, hotter than my habaneros. I've had jalapenos grown by straight from Mexico Mexicans and they're much more mild than the jalapenos I've grown.
Thank you.
I've heard that when Hot Peppers are grown receiving lots of water, they're more likely to be on their milder heat spectrum, although when grown in drought conditions, they will likely be spicy-Hotter. (I'd imagine soil drainage might affect that as well?). I used to grow 50 types of heirloom hot peppers, and I watered them a lot. I can't personally say if they were on the milder side of normal heat /type of pepper, as I did not consume them, all I know is that others gobbled them up.
I have heard that too. We alternated this year between some drought and then soaking rain. I figured it was so wet they'd be fine, but whew!
@@davidthegood Maybe you might enjoy 'Pepper Jelly' {See my reply to 'Joe Serrano's' comment.
This is true. My son spaces out his watering to make some of his peppers hotter and waters the super hot peppers to make them closer to his level. It's the cycling of no water that stresses them and concentrates the capsicum.
Various kinds of stress can make all sorts of food or medicinal plants more flavorful or potent. Then again, a little too much stress can simply stunt their growth. Personally, I just try to keep the plants reasonably healthy. Peppers tend to be kind of picky about conditions. If I want hotter peppers I just choose a hotter variety. I will probably stress them by accident a couple times during the season anyway :p
If you're trying to break a record for the hottest pepper or really impress your capsaicin junkie friends, then by all means experiment with those wet/dry cycles to stress them a bit. There's a distinct and appreciative market for that.
Adding a bit of sulfur to pepper plants is reported to make them hotter, too. Some claim just burying a few old-fashioned matches in the hole when you transplant them in is enough to really boost the heat. But I haven't tried it. I like mild to moderate peppers myself.
Depriving the peppers of water and insects attack causes the peppers to increase their spice
O used wood chips on half my garden and a think layer of oak leaves on the other. The wood plants in the wood chips are all diseased and full of root knot nematodes and the plants in oak leaves are beautiful healthy and the soil is full of life.
My chickens love the jalapeños, especially the seeds.
Put a wagon / cart / wheel barrel close to your truck so half of it is positioned under the bed where it opens. Then push an amount into the wheel barrel and dump it where needed. Then move it around with a rake, or kick it, use your hands whatever. Throwing it with a garden fork sucks
Great video David! However I want to compliment you for the video just before Christmas. Thank you for sharing the good news of our Savior in your video. This troubled world needs that. God bless you and yours. Happy new year to all havagudun in 24.
Thank you - you too
I bought the book. I like it!👍
I’ve been ignoring my Everglades tomato ( in large pot) hoping it would go meet its maker. No such luck, it just set more fruit! SW gulf coast FL.
Love your t-shirt and Happy belated anniversary to you and Rachel!
"Some people haven't yet, and I've got the sales figures to prove it." ....bwa ha ha ha!
I got the book pretty excited about it. From your ALVA neighbor.
Thank you very much.
I think you should grow Mushrooms in your mulch , they don't need light to grow.
David David David!!!
You need to grind those peppers into the chicken feed.
It's a great anti bacterial for them.
Something made me start hundreds of hot peppers. I can't even handle heat. But it seems like its helping cure the gut problem in my quail. And I'm hoping the hot stuff will also deter rodents. Obviously I'll sell what will sell, but the extras will be out to use.
Thinking of making a thick bed of hardwood woodchips, then inoculating it with mushroom spawn.
Looking back at my garden photos in the dead of Chicago Winter is my full blown copium.
I wonder if the Steve Solomon's mix has anything to do with extra hot jalepenos? My peppers were alot hotter than normal, and I supplement watering when its hot and dry. But this year the only change I made was using the Steve Solomon's mix.
I'm an inexperienced gardner but having some rock hard Georgia clay just didn't work well for our garden! Maybe there's other solutions (also using raised beds) but we're trying a couple of back to eden garden rows (yes lots of work, and mulch) in hopes to create a better soil system for us. What I would give to just be able to dig in the dirt like you are lol
I’m also in Georgia. I laid wood chips down on my garden site and the first year almost nothing grew as the chips deteriorated. The next year was incredible with earthworms everywhere. It greatly improved my soil. Now everything gets composted manure and other matter.
Just keep piling on organic material, and try to ALWAYS keep living roots in the ground. Use perennials, winter cover crops, "living mulch" between rows, whatever you can do.
I have a series of beds and live in north GA, lots of clay. I haven't done wood chips but am thiking about it, easy enough to push to the sides to add compost or whatever. One thing I do, it's a little labor intensive, but I fill one of those big rubbermaid trash cans with leaves that are all over the place and use a weed wacker to dice them up finely. They break down into a quarter trash can full, and it probably takes 2 loads to mulch one 7x3.5' bed a few inches deep. That way they break down quicker into garden bed soil. I was thinking if I add some wood chips it might also help the leaves below them decompose. Or I might use straw.
Keep mulching!
"drop it like it's hot" lolz. so long since I heard that song.
" ...and I have the book sales numbers to prove it!"
Your delivery was so perfect I almost wet myself. Also, if your peppers were too hot, doesn't that mean you have an excess of sulfur in your soil?
Might be!
Hot pepper jelly is amazing
Those jalapeños. Never, never, too hot for us here 'sambal' crazy state in Negeri Sembilan :)
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Thanks.