Mulching The Garden For Success - How And Why - Essential For Soil Health
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2023
- With blazing hot temps and bone dry soil, it's time to learn all about using MULCH in the garden!!... Mulch can be made of several different sources but the basic principle is the same... to keep the soil covered and healthy.
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If anyone doubts how well mulch retains water, then go flip over a log or rock and see how moist the soil is underneath
fantastic example!!
🤪🙄 me, running back out to the freshly cleaned out garden beds to put the leaves, back in the beds🤣
Yes, me too 🤣
and when you think you put down enough mulch ..... put down some more !! :) Especially raised beds.
I just planted and mulched blueberries. Now, I have to go back and move the mulch away from the stalks. Thanks for the tip!!
I think he said that for hardwood chips for trees only.
@@inthetwinklingofaneye He also said for berry bushes and the like. 9:15
thats right my friend give it a couple inches breathing room away from the stalks and they will be most happy that way!
@Garden Like a Viking OK my friend, here it is...the comment that is going to explain to you everything you need to know about what I thought of your video. -> I liked it.
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well said my friend!!
Last year we had temperatures above 100 and up to 105 degrees every single day in summer. We had no rain and these temperatures for more than two months. We were designated as being in Stage D4 drought. All my gardens were growing gloriously with ZERO water added by me. It was all thick wood chip mulch acting like a battery for water from months before when it rained a few times. This year my grounds are covered in melon vines growing gloriously and up the fences as well as the ground. I've planted a bunch of watermelon this year as well to see how far I can push this system of gardening in the Texas heat and see if I can grow huge water melons with zero watering removing all but two per vine to get monster sizes.
Right on! You're living the permaculture dream.
Awesome! Yes this Texas heat can be killer if you don’t mulch pretty heavily. I use pine straw because it’s what I have and it’s been working great. I like that it’s also free. ☺️It kept my garden happy last summer and this year I am using it to get certain crops to grow that normally wouldn’t do as well. It’s a game changer!
I used straw mulch but found the slugs love it. Supplement but regular light applications of grass clippings. My dream water less or be free to go on a 10 day holiday in summer without fear of the garden dying. How do I get there?
Such a huge difference from this year to last year. This year I mulched with straw! Thanks Nate! 😊
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Mulching helped me transform my soil from a rock hard dry clay similar to the soil at the end of this video. It breaks down so you need to add some every year or any time it thins out. We'll worth it though. I don't use fertilizer and I'm growing great looking plants. Add some green to it and you have a slow compost. The green will help add the nitrogen and other nutrients as it breaks down.
What I have found, out of necessity, I compost with whole leaves. So when everything else has fully composted. Some leaves remain some what uncompleted. Makes for great compost and draws worms.
Leaves, grass, straw, fabric, plastic bags, cardboard, hardwood chips.
Excellent practice. I do it all the time. This knowledge was imparted in me by the famous farm manager Mr. Sinnatamby at Trinity College Farm during 1967 when I was undergoing a period of training.
I see they're deleting articles that shows you how to make BTI bacteria, can you please do one please?
What is BTI
Mulching also helps bring worms to the surface which feed on it, leaving the precious worm castings to feed the plants
Scotland, no rain for 23 days already........Moucho Mulcho!!!
I used to love mulching with straw, these days so much of it is sprayed that I am afraid to add it to the garden! - Dana
agree. It stunted and killed our veggies a few yrs back..!
I freaking luv your vids. You are so clear and concise - no BS, just jump into the point with education and how-to. I have been confused on mulch and how much. I put down about 12 inches of grass clipping around a cheery tree and it died soon after. LOL - I'm thinking now that may have been too much. A few inches is probably good.
If you pile leaves around the base of the tree, yes, it can kill it. Spread them out a couple inches from the stalk and out to where the branches are as that will indicate where the roots are growing - then you can put clippings and leaves down thickly. Also, that deep of fresh grass clippings will mold and rot. Not good for the tree to be introduced to. Mix clippings w/leaves or let the clippings dry out a bit first. Sorry to hear about your tree!
They called me crazy when i was doing the sack potatoe methode, now after 6 weeks of no rain my sacks are still moist while they are using sprinkelers system on a daily basis, and i have not once wateres the sacks, also using straw around all of my plants it really does wonders.
Mulch mulch mulch......oh how I love mulch I spend hours in the fall looking for bags of leaves that silly people leave on the curb for trash pickup in SW kanas we don't get much rain I collect all I can and mulch helps it go far thank you Nate for your wonderfull garden recipes and information
Sorry Nate. I comment as I watch so I don't miss anything I can say. 🤣 I should have known you would address the mulch too close to the base of the plants before I responded to tooshieg. Good job, good video as always! I appreciate you! 💖
Here on Vancouver island, we save oodles of oak and maple leaves in large mattress bags (with holes punched) to use as mulch and worm farm bedding year-round. We also get 11-22 yards of arborist wood chips free from our municipality every year to do the same for our shrubs, trees, blueberries and blackberries. The transformation of the soil and garden health and productivity since we started doing this several years ago have been amazing.
~ Sandra
You the best strong man
Your garden is BEAUTIFUL! Love it! 💖 With no rain? EVERYONE should be taking your advice on this channel!
I compost leaves in my woods. SO full of worms! I ran low this year and also used leaves/pine needles from the ground. This is the first year all my tomatoes are healthy, not a single bug, and I am East Texas north of Houston where I have seldom NOT been overrun by leaf footed stink bugs. Composted leaf mold is amazing.
Sweet potato patch looking good 🙌🏼
thanks to you
Cardboard always works great 👍
Thanks. Good info. I must share - when I buy Potting Mix from Bunnings (Australia) it's full of woody debris, so I sift it and add more stuff to the sifted Potting Mix for potting, like Jadam processes. The sifted out woody stuff becomes my fungal dominant mulch. Sometimes I soak this woody mulch in the Jadam processes and/or worm castings, then use the 'activated' woody mulch wherever/everywhere.
thats great advice!... thank you for sharing my friend!
I'm in Northern Indiana the lack of rain is a problem but the wind is a problem too. Ask your local mowing/landscaping company for grass/wood chips and let them know that you don't want sprayed grass.
Hello NATE! Thank you NATE!
Today my husband and I used the mower to chop up the Maple 🍁 leaves. Our next door neighbours kindly gave us 5 huge bags. We emptied 2 bags onto the lawn. Mowed it twice, as it will break down faster.
I mixed it with coffee grounds. Would have loved to have fresh cut grass as well. But it's winter here so I made do with what is available.
My husband and our grandson made a bin out of pinewood pallets, last winter. The broken down Maple 🍁 leaves from last autumn, are pitch black underneath. There is a Municipal Park near where we live, about two blocks away. It's about ten acres. Mostly massive Maple trees.
Last year I took our grandson and filled a few bags full of Maple leaves.
I have also covered the bare patches of ground on the veggie garden, with grass and leaves, chop and drop.
Thank you again Nate for the wonderful videos, to encourage us to grow vegetables etc.
It's hard work, but very rewarding too.
Building the soil is my job for this winter, in readiness for Spring. ♻️🌞🌱
With gratitude. And much love.
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Thanks Nate it is good to do this without a lot of money
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It looks like you need a "sacrificial" bed of catnip for the killer to roll in lol
That's exactly my problem here, and I have been working on a mulch solution. I tried shredded leaves but do not have enough. There is a sawmill close by and both sawdust and bark mulch are available. I'm going after several pickup loads next week. Even if my summer garden fizzles, I will have a system developed for the fall garden. Some plants are doing fairly well, I nurse them along with a tiny bit of water every night, maybe I will get mulched in time to actually get a harvest. Anything edible is a success here after 2 years of drought and clay.
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You are doing good job for gardeners and also commercial growers. I have learned lot of knowledge from your channel.
Thank you I’m learning all the time.
Im in Louisiana and our summers get extremely hot until winter basically. I do a layer of cardboard then a thick layer of wood chips, shredded leaves or rabbit bedding on top. Also, diy olla pots with terracota pots are extremely helpful!
Ok my friend thank you for the information! Im starting my garden and going through your videos. I wasn't aware of leaf mold and that has helped me a lot with creating fertilizers!
I better go back and check how many inches of mulch I've put down. Pretty sure I need more. Thanks Nate.
My mulch is used duck pine bedding. The mixed in poo seems to make all the difference.
I have watched several of your videos over the last few days. Just happened upon one. Just want to say I love the information you present your your concise and direct method of delivery. Even though Florida is my location and we have unique issues I am gaining so much knowledge. Glad you comment on Jadam, too. Thank you.
I'm happy you are here my friend!!... yes Florida is a bit different but you'll still want to use a mulch to keep from erosion and also to retain more nutrients in sandy soils
Super wise advice. Care for your soil and it will take care of you!
Im watching all your videos. I can say im a big fan. Thank you for your information cause i have a small farm and the climate is very dry. Greetings from Greece and thank you again.
thank you my friend!!... I lived in Greece for a couple seasons in a small village called Paleros near Lefkada... Greece holds a very special place in my heart!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Lefkada !!!Beautiful island .Been there three times in the past.People in the Ionian islands have different culture from the others Greeks.Better i believe.
I do appreciate your passion.
Its works, first rain today in two weeks, watered in my toms, theyre fine
Awww, Nate! Still no rain for you? You need a Hopi rain stick! I got mine out yesterday and nothing BUT during the night and all day today I've had a constant light rainfall! YAY! Filling my rain barrels up again! I mighta shoulda aimed the rain stick in your direction, too? People laugh but it works! 😉
I live in the Sonoran desert and just found your channel. Couldn't agree with you more about the importance of mulch!! My garden this year is better than ever with no rain and lots of heat!! I put literally every leaf, or throw-away scraps, anything I can on top of the soil. 👍✌🤙
Thank you so much great information at a perfect time of the year as I’ve just been gifted with wholesale amounts of hay 👍🇬🇬
Also thumbs up from The Netherlands!
Thank you very much. Thanks you for sharing your experience and knowledge. This is very helpful.
Grass in all my grow areas! :D
One of your better videos, I like your energy.
Great video, as always, thanks 👍🏻
your garden is very beautiful! 1000% agree mulching for summer is necessary for water retention yet just as important for winter too!
Thanks for the reminder. I've got a corner of my garden that is super, super dry. I think the nearby tree is soaking up all the water and nutrients
I haven't been mulching and you video has inspired me. I have sad soil, but that's gonna change with fertilizing and mulching.
Thanks! Great video - REminding me! I love your energy!!
Learning! Thanks for teaching, and all of your insights!.
I needed to watch this video because I just dug up my garden bed at the house I moved into to get the grass and roots out to plant it and I needed a place to put all my sprouting plants so now I can put the container plants over my bed the I just dug out and weeded so I can keep the soil fresh and have a place for my plants to grow before I transplant them into the soil. Thank you
A wicking raised bed works awesome your root ball is always moist and cool I live in New Mexico we just come through a couple of weeks temp over a 100 for several days and I water every 7 to 10 days . Very little evaporation. I am very pleased.
Thank you! I learned something new. :)
Great video like yours always are! Mulch is a huge favorite of mine - I use wood chips and hay. But no to plastic! That plastic breaks down and the soil does not need microplastics any more than the ocean does. We have to cut back on our use of plastic for earth's survival!
Thank you for all the valuable information.
Love the cat!
Get a ruler out until your used to mulching, measure after you water. Mulching made gardening enjoyable, I got sick of watering all the time. Hate to hear you Hoosiers haven't had any rain for weeks. This year is already vastly better than last year in my area.
What's a good cover crop for a fig tree?
Thanks for all you do
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Thank you bud. Your videos are always accurate. I take your info as fact, which you can't always do on the tube.
I live by mulching. I have two wood chip no-till gardens and four conventional gardens, in which I mulch everything. One other thing about mulching is it helps to mitigate against too much rain, also, as it will hold some of it at the surface and it will help with erosion/run-off issues. I use straw as the cheapest and most convenient, get big round bales for 40 dollars here in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Be careful of the Grazon that many famers use on their fields. It will kill your soil
What a great vibe you have my friend. Blessings
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. God bless you and yours.
Best gardening teacher EVER ! ! !
the first thing that came to mind
great work and thanks for helping to simplify the info
you're a great teach, my friend. this video was just what i needed. i'm in zone 8 and expecting triple digits in the next week or so. time to grab the rake.
Thank you Mr. Nate
This was the best explanation of how much helps in the garden. Thank you
How are you getting JMS/JLF feedings down into the roots efficiently in heavy mulch, without using a lot of water? Thanks
SE Louisiana, using grass clippings.
Well done; informative, to the point, and good energy.
I always try to garden like nature, it’s obvious if you can see. Unfortunately the eyes are useless if the mind is blind 🤘🏼
very well said my friend!
Thanks for all the work you put into these videos! I have learned so much
Nice and soooo clear. Thank you!!!!
I use seaweed/seagrrass to mulch many of my plants.
You have a great channel here
Great presentation,you got it going on ,mulch is the protector and feeder,brother you need to get out of town and spread your love over some acreage
thank you my friend and yes that is absolutely the plan and the direction everything is going.... back to the land... I was on 220 acres fully off grid for about 10 years in Northern California... but tragedy struck and now I'm here making the best of it!!
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Would like to see a test of which type of mulch pulls the least nitrogen from the ground.
Thanks for the great Information!
Love your videos man. Thanks!
Hey Nate thank you very mulch.
Excellent advice Nate, l will strive to do this with the resources l have, grass, leaves & cardboard
I have learned so much from your videos! My family has always had a small to medium garden. One generation has passed down knowledge to the next. I am proud to say (with your permission) your knowledge will live on in my family garden! Thank you!!
thank you for telling me this my friend I appreciate you!!... the very best way to use knowledge is to pass it on!
Excellent video nate. Mulch is a very important part of soil / garden management
Any thoughts on intermixing different mulches, i.e. woodchips alongside straw in the same bed?
I got a small wood chipper from Harbor Freight. Chipped a small shrub and mulched the raised beds with it. Good combo of leaves and branches.
yes thats ideal
How do you like the shredder? How big of branches can it chip?
@@lpmoron6258 It can mulch 2-3 inch thick branch. It’s a light duty chipper for small branches around the yard. I like it a lot and the price is right but I think it went up by $30 since I bought mine.
@@wcoastgardener209 can you shred leaves to..
@@gardenlikeaviking look up Ramial wood chips kkkk another rabbit hole for you enjoy
3rd year of having a garden. First year, I was ignorant about mulch. The second year, I was a bit too shy with the mulch in all but a couple areas and didn't use enough. The places where I did were much more bountiful. Now I'm going full Viking and mulching thickly, and I see a big difference for sure.
Thanks for all your wonderful and helpful advice. I live in the same city as you and can attest to how hot and dry it has been. Thankfully all my gardens are mulched, some with grass clippings and some with leaf mulch.
Appreciate your explanations bro. I think it's starting to get through this thick skull lol.
I've been very surprised to see my soil still damp underneath the mulch, even with no rain or watering for a week or two...
Thanks again, and blessings to everyone! 🙏🙏
I was wondering which mulch to use with which plants. And you made this video; just perfect. Thank you. Maybe you could do one on different types of DIY irrigation. (Just an idea)
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Awesome info - as always Nate - great stuff man - keep on growing!!
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Thanks for the reminder N8