Crumble away!❤ We cover our driveway (about 1/2mile) with woodchips, every 3 years we scrape it up with a little tractor and pile it up. You are right, it is beautiful. One thing I've discovered it is our wet season (WINTER) that breaks it down NOT the summer or dry times. So, I tell people to leave the chips flat for 3 years then pile it high.
I believe ground contact helps because I've done it the other way, where you flatten the top of a large pile of chips and wait 3 years. The chips really didn't break down, even at the ground level. I don't think the pile ever got saturated. They were just aged woodchips. When we scrape up the driveway, it is dark, fungal dominated, gold. Carbon is King!
Yeah btw if u haven't watched Back to Eden Gardening documentary here on UA-cam i highly recommend it! It will completely change your view on gardening and make you realize so much. I can summarize the entire thing but I think its better if u gave it a little looksie 🙂@@tecmow4399
That was sooo satisfying to watch! I have a woodchip mound that started around 1m tall last spring. It is watered regularly and covered with pure wool fabric, worn out blanket to be precise. It's half it's size now so I'm expecting a bit of compost and the rest will probably be used as a mulch in my herb garden. I'll have to employ my crappy chipper much more this year.
How do i type my sound effect? Um, "euhhhhaahhghahhhh!" This was extremely satisfying to see. Great editing of 1K+ days. THANK YOU DEAR SIR for sharing your time of love, care, patience and enjoyment.
Nice work! Wish I could share back how it works for us. Just did a similar excersize yesterday. The take from the composted chips is grand. Grows everything under the sun. Use the moist word, mate, its all good!
@tecmow4399 it really depends on the season . If it's going to be a cold season, I'll add a small portion of vermiculite . Regardless of which season it is, I have access to a wealth of compost, some of which is bio complete compost that we make here at the farm and then examine at the lab. Also at the farm. Its common for us to mix 1:1:1- peat, compost, and woodchip compost to bulk up before full scale sowing. The media is set to sun for 2 weeks in vessels. That allows any residual seed content to germinate, and terminate. If fungus gnats are common, it will receive a living inoculant that counters gnats. If theres Asian Jumping worms, and it needs to be without, for conveyance to another grower, it is heated in the vessel for a period of time. Prior to solarizing, it has food grade diatoms added to it. This lyses the ajw eggs and dessicates the rest. Strict composting rules in my region. I small batch just like you though, that's why I love your channel!
What did you do with the stuff that passed the first sieve but not the second? It was out of shot, but seemed as if you were chucking it. I put a lot of woodchip on our allotment paths and most Summers there are 2 or 3 occasions when a run of windy dry days make it feasible to rake up and sieve the path without clogging the sieve wires. And doing this yields a substantial addition to the compost that comes from the 15 cold-composting daleks spread over a garden & 2 allotment plots. The fine stuff becomes potting compost, the coarsest goes back on the path if I've no fresh woodchip or into the bins as 'browns' since there's usually a surfeit of 'green' at that time of year. But the middle-sized bits are highly prized for lightening the (clay) beds
I love your videos they are the only gardening ones that make me laugh out loud cos it’s exactly how most of us feel about this stuff 😂😂😂😂😂❤
😂 loud and proud weirdo here! Welcome
Crumble away!❤
We cover our driveway (about 1/2mile) with woodchips, every 3 years we scrape it up with a little tractor and pile it up. You are right, it is beautiful. One thing I've discovered it is our wet season (WINTER) that breaks it down NOT the summer or dry times. So, I tell people to leave the chips flat for 3 years then pile it high.
So the ground contact also helps or is it just that it gets evenly moist when it’s laid flat do you think?
I believe ground contact helps because I've done it the other way, where you flatten the top of a large pile of chips and wait 3 years. The chips really didn't break down, even at the ground level. I don't think the pile ever got saturated. They were just aged woodchips.
When we scrape up the driveway, it is dark, fungal dominated, gold.
Carbon is King!
This is pure gold my friend, ANYTHING u plant in this will absolutely thrive!
I’m keen to try 😃
Yeah btw if u haven't watched Back to Eden Gardening documentary here on UA-cam i highly recommend it! It will completely change your view on gardening and make you realize so much. I can summarize the entire thing but I think its better if u gave it a little looksie 🙂@@tecmow4399
Perennials will thrive in this.
I love sifting, but my back hates it. I have a folding A-frame planned for this spring to get into my chicken manure/hemp bedding compost piles.
That was sooo satisfying to watch! I have a woodchip mound that started around 1m tall last spring. It is watered regularly and covered with pure wool fabric, worn out blanket to be precise. It's half it's size now so I'm expecting a bit of compost and the rest will probably be used as a mulch in my herb garden. I'll have to employ my crappy chipper much more this year.
I hope you enjoy getting your hands into as much as I did!
Initially sifting through a crate, genius.
I saw someone do it through a shopping trolley which looked even better! Just looks awful sat in the garden 😂
@@tecmow4399 No doubt. For some reason, I think it might seamlessly fit into the present look of your allotment. 🙃
Mighty fine work my friend
This is amazing to see. I covered my backyard in wood chips last year to improve my clay soil. Can't wait to see what it will look like in 3 years!
All the organic matter should help a lot!
How do i type my sound effect? Um, "euhhhhaahhghahhhh!" This was extremely satisfying to see. Great editing of 1K+ days. THANK YOU DEAR SIR for sharing your time of love, care, patience and enjoyment.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
@@tecmow4399 Sincerely.
That's lovely stuff, very satisfying. I'm with you all the way.
I knew I wasn’t alone 🤗
Nice work! Wish I could share back how it works for us. Just did a similar excersize yesterday. The take from the composted chips is grand. Grows everything under the sun.
Use the moist word, mate, its all good!
Moist moist moist! Do you just grow in that or add anything else?
@tecmow4399 it really depends on the season . If it's going to be a cold season, I'll add a small portion of vermiculite . Regardless of which season it is, I have access to a wealth of compost, some of which is bio complete compost that we make here at the farm and then examine at the lab. Also at the farm.
Its common for us to mix 1:1:1- peat, compost, and woodchip compost to bulk up before full scale sowing. The media is set to sun for 2 weeks in vessels. That allows any residual seed content to germinate, and terminate.
If fungus gnats are common, it will receive a living inoculant that counters gnats. If theres Asian Jumping worms, and it needs to be without, for conveyance to another grower, it is heated in the vessel for a period of time. Prior to solarizing, it has food grade diatoms added to it. This lyses the ajw eggs and dessicates the rest.
Strict composting rules in my region.
I small batch just like you though, that's why I love your channel!
Great stuff. I don't shift mine unless I am using it for seed raising
That’s exactly what I want it for. Otherwise I cba either 😂
Amazing 👍
Thank you
What did you do with the stuff that passed the first sieve but not the second? It was out of shot, but seemed as if you were chucking it. I put a lot of woodchip on our allotment paths and most Summers there are 2 or 3 occasions when a run of windy dry days make it feasible to rake up and sieve the path without clogging the sieve wires. And doing this yields a substantial addition to the compost that comes from the 15 cold-composting daleks spread over a garden & 2 allotment plots. The fine stuff becomes potting compost, the coarsest goes back on the path if I've no fresh woodchip or into the bins as 'browns' since there's usually a surfeit of 'green' at that time of year. But the middle-sized bits are highly prized for lightening the (clay) beds
Awesome!
Thank you 😊
panning for gold 😄 well done!
Exactly 😊 thank you
Sick
Glad you enjoyed it 👊🏻
Urine helps to decompose cellulose.
lol!!
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