You are 110% correct. The wide mix of materials in the tree company mulch is awesome. Nice, big mix of stuff - lots of minerals, great fungi, all the good stuff... it transformed my North Florida food forest.
Wow, thanks! I’m fairly new at film work and videography. I’m always trying to get better and take things to the next level. I appreciate the feedback.
Thanks for the video. I know this is a gardening channel but I will say it again I love when you talk about building community and relationships. Thanks again.
Yup, love the short vids, lotsa info there...I recently was gifted the oak/pine mulch from my neighbor cutting down his trees, the guys were more than happy to get rid of it and a $20.00 tip made for good friends. That's about the only thing I like about hurricanes, free mulch and lots of free plumeria starts...we sure lucked out with Dorian...!!!
So the media over exaggerated this hurricane too making people buy tons of goods? sounds about right. You watch a whole day of non stop hurricane news, buy, buy, buy, evacuate, panic, then no coverage following like it never happened.
I watch all alternative weather on the internet not the local. This was my 6th hurricane, I bought my generator after Irma, 11 days w/o power, but you can totally see that the weather futures on Wall Street were making a killing again...I didn't buy anything more than a normal week of groceries, except rum, a pirate can't run out of rum, gas yes, but not rum...lol...
We dug out a big long pit and had the tree trimmers fill it up with mulch. After the rainy season we pulled all that out to use for the market garden. I have been mulching my farm for 5+ years and the productivity is amazing. I also tip my drivers and give them lots of bananas! Thanks to you ,Matt and the crew for the great videos.
Pound the short concise vids. I relocated to the Ozark forest and WOW. We grow trees rocks and mycelium. Love having REAL dirt. Can't wait to greenhouse all the wonderful fruit trees that you grow in your back yard using dirt.
Love Chip drop, have gotten 4 truckloads in the passed year and have converted my backyard into a garden. I tip them $20 each time and always get mulch when I ask for it. My HOA in Sanford, FL is really good about not giving me a hard time when a 40 ft load sits in my driveway for a month and I move it into the backyard after work each day. Our amount of rain here is ideal, I've spread at least 1-2 ft over the cardboard I initially laid down and the soil it's created is great. I like both your long and short videos. Thanks for sharing 🌻 Kate
Hey Pete, I have been watching videos for over 6 years starting while I was getting chemo. Your videos are very informative, especially for our area. I wanted to say thank you for sharing your knowledge. Please keep sharing and inspiring us! I hope to meet you one day and personally thank you. Wishing you and your family great health! Hugh
Wow this is the perfect topic for me today. Had two free loads of mulched dumped from a local tree company and just had a friend bring his tractor over to spread them into my beds down here in south Florida. Plan on getting a couple more and letting it sit and break down to use in my planned veggie garden and around my fruit trees I have been planting. My two piles sat about a month and were already breaking down on the middle and full of fungi!
Great video man, like the shorter video. Could you do a video of good ways to protect your fruiting trees from hurricanes in Florida using permaculture? Like what are good perimeter trees to slow down the wind speed but won't blow over? That oak got talking about?
My property in Starke is mostly wooded, native oak and others. Don't cut trees down , they are Natures wind barrier. Or plant trees that are Native to your area.
@@andy6043 I'm thinking of buying land in Florida and if it already had perimeters trees I would have definitely leave them but in the worst case scenario if the land had no or little trees on the perimeter I'm curious to know what can be planted that will grow fast enough and have a good root system to not people blown over.
@@thebeardedgrower4625 I bought 2.1 acres with a d/w trailer to take care of Mom and Dad next door. Got into Permaculture several years later and I'm still trying to learn. Wind up to 60 or so since I've been here, (Irma) but you don't feel much on the ground in open areas. I would stay with Natives for wind protection. My neighbors had roofs blown off of sheds etc. but I had no damage. I have tree's, they don't. Hope this helps.
@@gnarlytreeman in permaculture your modeling off nature so a proper tree trim is no trim at all. Fruiting trees will naturally grow without needing to be pruned it's when they get pruned that you have issues and they will need to be pruned for the rest of its life
Many folks don’t have any place to put a mountain of mulch so bagged mulch is a good alternative. We are replacing grass lawns with cypress mulch and using slash and drop so we achieve a mix of leaves and trigs quickly atop the mulch. Best part about cypress mulch it doesn’t float away. A moringa and Mexican sunflower hedge feeds our lot with endless green hay to supplement mulch.
Great video--I bought Mycellium Running when Paul Stamets first released it, Pete...he's an icon...was immediately hooked !! Great book--and well produced--just as with your vids ! ;) I don't know who produced the vibration in the intro (wife ? ), but loved it...concise content throughout, too. Don't mind the longer video's when there is a ton of content, but shorter vids are usually preferred. Some youtubers (like John Kohler) unfortunately get too extemporaneous and opinionated :) One thing I might add, though--I have noted a LOT Of people still confuse saprophytic fungi with mutualistic endo & ecto fungi--not the same ! btw, I have 2 bismarkia nobilis palms now approaching almost 20 yrs--they get huge ! Now getting popular here in Phx finally...I have used colored mulch (did a lot of research) but very rarely and obviously not as beneficial as fresh wood & leaf chip mulch...especially, if the goal is to build proper organic soil, laden with microbes, mycorr & decomposers
Thanks! Appreciate the short video format as well. It’s great to spread info and tips. And I’m so looking forward to your video about syntropyc farming. I’ve been hooked on the subject and the work and philosophy of Ernst Goetsch for a while.
Your tractor makes quick work of that pile! (I'm jealous, but my shovel and wheelbarrow are happy to still have a job, lol). Good call on the biodiverse, multi-textured tree material. Differently sized material also lets moisture and air air down into the material and soil. I spread 40 yards, but had some kiddo help.
Im just a big boy with toys! 😝 I’ve actually been in the industry for 20yrs now and didn’t get my first tractor until 2011. Game changer for the old back.
Pete， my worry is gone after watching this VID. 😄 Our land in Osceola county is sooo sandy sooo white, as white as PA's winter snow. Me and my husband were so worry about how to prepare the type of soil ? So we can grow sth on it. Thanks!
Same here, in N. Brevard, snow white beach/sugar sand. Mulch is great, you'll get some humus and activity underneath, but sand it will remain. You'll never turn it into "black gold", no matter how much you add. View the sand more as a substrate than soil, a place to hold your plants, not feed them so much. Feed the roots and the foliage liquid (compost tea, fish emulsion, worm leachate, etc) frequently, rather than rarely and deep, as it will just disappear into the sand. This is a bit counterintuitive to the "feed the soil" mantra that works so well elsewhere, but sand will quickly gobble up whatever you feed it. Put whatever amendments you use (worm castings, compost, etc) on top rather than digging in; it'll last longer. Anyway, that's my strategy on my ancient seashore ridge!
I love shorter format videos . Videos that dont beat around the Bush to revealing the content of what the title addresses . There is a hundred of videos on this topic so the less viewing time is a thumbs up for the video
I cant maintain adequate heat in my leaf and weed compost pile unless I spike it with household ammonia but the mulch operation next door their pulverized piles emits steam all year . What gives the mostly ground up huge stumps and legs I have never seen leafed branches being ground up. So I'm suspect on this green to brown formula
The white to light gray stuff, especially in hotter piles is likely to be thermophilic(heat loving) actinomycetes, not exactly fungi or bacteria. They are especially good at breaking down the lignin in woody material. You might suggest during the dry season if the trimmer mulch is fairly dry it is best to wet it down so the life can stay alive. It ake a A LOT of water to wet down a pile. Like watering 2-3 days with a sprinkler. If kept too dry some mulch can grow molds which are irritant I had some and needed to use a P-100 particle mask to prevent respiratory irritation.
Again Pete, I love the video and sooo! Jealous I don’t have a piece of land to make my little paradise! 😎 I strongly believe that must people have this strong natural desire to grow things! Produce, fruit and flowers 🌸 I get very attached and protective with my plants I grow in my balcony! 😂😂😂 I started a miracle tree! So please don’t touch it! 😂
Had our first load of arborist chippings this summer. It was really fresh and within probably a week or two it was decomposing before our eyes. The pile was hot enough to steam when I started to distribute it around the yard. We typically pay $75 for delivery through the arborist directly, but that's a small price to pay for how well it works in the yard. Our area isn't on ChipDrop.
Great information. People ask me why my garden grows so well. I tell them this: Out of all the things I do on my 3 acres mulching is the most important thing I do.
Im in coastal ga and recently got a load of pine. Its working fabulous to build out some new areas for my food forrest in training ;) got it free from a local tree company. Im sure after hurricane dorian more mulch will be in abundance!
Thanks I've called The Mulch Man I've given them tips and I've even offered to bring trucks by their respective jobs so that they can spray the most directly into my trucks but to no great avail my guess is other mulch craving individuals like myself it's just got more attractive offers Of course I'll keep trying
Looks good brother I'm in DeLeon Springs been getting wood chips from the cruise pruning the power lines but recently I think I hit the jackpot I got some Mexican buddies who have been harvesting deer Moss and other foliage from the forest for 7 years they gather everything on tarps loaded in trucks bring it home go through it bring out what they can sell for cut foliage or whatever and the rest is just accumulated for the past 7 years until I came along last month so far I have gotten about 30 yards of it probably another 70 or 80 yards there all needles Twigs leaves cones and other debris from their harvesting the forest they're happy to get it out of there and they just keep getting more
I have 8.5 acres in Nicaragua that is hard-pack clay. We do not have access to tree mulch like you show in this video, so I created my own source using Gliricidia sepium (called madero negro here) a leguminous tree that grows fast and is great for making mulch. I joke that I am more of a Gliricidia farmer than anything, with close to 1500 of the trees on my property. Gliricidia can be pollarded over and over with no ill effects. They provide shade and fertilizer for young fruit trees, as each time they are pollarded, the roots dump nitrogen into the soil. The mulch also is high in nitrogen. For my farm, Gliricidia sepium is the perfect green manure mulch tree. I also use Tithonia that you have featured in some of your videos.
That’s awesome Angela! Im very familiar with the gliricidia, they called it quick stick in Costa Rica. I think it was commonly used for living fences also? Yeah this quick growing pioneer species are crucial when mulch isn’t available. Keep up the good work!
Pete! 10 min videos are good especially if it’s uploaded often and even one add wouldn’t deter me, but every now and then it’s good to have a garden tour or what ever like the flying fox videos with Adam are cool. Hope all is well and you’re all safe
Mulch is great to build soil and humus, but the fastest way is actually with multispecies green manure. If you plant 15 or 20 species of cover crops like they do in New Zealand you can build soil really fast, especially in Florida with your rainy season. Plants inject carbon in the soil through rhizodeposition when they grow, and that represents more than twice the amount of carbon that would be given back to the soil once those plants die and decompose. And the more species you have, the more productive it is, plants just help each other, especially if you mix grasses, brassicaceaes and legumes. I totally agree though that the best mulch is the one that your soil is already used to eat. You can still use pine, like I do, it just takes longer to decompose. But when I chop down all the tall weed in the wild area in our urban garden, some quite tough and woody, and use it as mulch, like 5 cm of it, the soil eats it in a matter of weeks, one month tops.
This was mesmerizing, I learned a great deal. I love your philosophy. Hey, I am in Miami and though that having fruit trees on our Swales would feed the community. Others say that this is against the law.
Best ways to get mulch for me: 1 Call several tree service companies near you, ask if they deliver mulch for gardens. All mulch works, some looks better than others, after some time and rain, they all turn into the same rich compost 2 Chipdrop.com works in some areas, don't be picky about the mulch, tip them. Could take weeks or months to get a load, may not get a load at all... 3 Your local city greenery services may offer mulch and compost. This works better if you have a truck or trailer [or can borrow one] and can haul it yourself, some cities will deliver to you 4 Craigslist, or local apps that connect neighborhoods with goods and services. Mulch will be listed there sometimes 5 Heavily prune unwanted trees and shrubbery on your own land, use it as mulch 6 Offer to cut down weeds or unwanted small trees or shrubbery from neighbors. Chop it up, spread it in your garden 7 Repeat step one but this time offer to provide food, beer, or other trades to entice and convince
We want to learn from nature, leaves and twigs drop in the fall, mulch the ground, and compost during winter for the summer. Trees also fall down and their wood trunks turn into compost as they decompose in the forest floor. All kinds of bugs and life join in as part of this process Although the fall here in CA is the best time for mulching, I also mulch whenever I can and when its available. Its not a perfect world
Mulch in florida is hurricane and overgrowth trash. Its awesome and easy to get, and rots super fast in florida. I got like 6 loads of so free from the county landfill, it brought in like 10 or 12 different mushroom varieties most i had never seen before and I grew up in florida. In florida the county landfill provide this stuff free to residents. Im planning to cover my property with 6" a year, should be doable for a half acre.
Hey Pete! I may have to use that quote about the internet of soil... ;) so in NY invasive insects like the emerald ash borer spreads through firewood and what not, how do you address that problem of tree guys cutting a LOT of infected ash trees and taking their mulch and potentially further spreading the borer?
Chip Drop is in Florida aren't they, I think they're the ones I'm thinking of, they're not going to want to drive all the way to Oklahoma and I wouldn't ask them to?. I'll have to try one of the other options if I need it. Right now I'm just using the grass clippings from my lawn, I've got a small mountain of it right now. I was always afraid the dyed mulch was not good for the plants plus they want too much money for it.The mulch definitely helps keep a person from needing to water as much, this is really the first year I've used it but I'll be using it from now on because it is beneficial. The shorter videos are ok, but you can't get everything in a short video with some of what you have shown us. Thanks Pete, those are good tips.
I’m pretty sure chip drop is nationwide. I updated on the website the other day and already received a load this week. Be sure to update after your first load. It also helps to offer some cash.
Coming at us with syntropic farming? Uh yes please do!! Ernst Gotsch in South America? Guy in philippines doing the J something something grow your own? All of it please, love the information and your work! We are looking at moving back to my wife's home in Kenya or Costa Rica. Definitely would love to have you consult one day, in the meantime I love watching Green Dreams
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Sweet! I just remembered JADAM is the name of that one in Asia. Maybe we will see a youtube Green Dreams entry from Brazil one day!
Never been more fascinated by anything than l am by mushrooms. Mushrooms and trees have what's called a mycorrhyzal relationship. They need each other to exchange nutrients the other can't produce, so calling them the internet of the forest is spot on, although the tree roots themselves are part of that connection. l'm currently battling Brazilian pepper. Heard something interesting but don't know the veracity. Brazilian pepper l know is allelopathic. l've mulched the smaller branches, and someone said that leaves their allelopathic poison in the soil and might suppress growth of other things. If it were native, l'd say nature has probably worked that out. Being it's not native and l've seen how it can take over, l'm open to it being a possibility. Amazing how hot the inside of a fresh mulch pile can get so shortly after it's been piled up.
Never though of using Brazilian Pepper tree (invasive) as a mulch source. They grow like weeds and are everywhere. Good thing I did not completely get ride of them. Thanks for the tip.
Love the shorter videos! Also, what do you think about pine mulch? There are no leaves to mix in with it but I’ve got A TON of it! Should I soak it in compost tea before putting on my garden?
Thanks! Pine mulch is good also it just doesn’t have the carbon/nitrogen ratio. It needs to break down longer before being applied. Spraying the pile with em1 and compost tea will speed up the break down process.
your videos are gold pete. in queensland australia our soils the same as florida, so can apply the info you provide. also have you worked much with tamarillo?
It tends to mix itself in the pile a little while turning it. I don’t really have a ratio we follow fir mixing them. I do try to lay the palm at the bottle when installing thick mulch.
I was so discouraged after I ordered chipdrop mulch and the load has mostly palm tree material. I guess from all the downed Palm trees here from hurricane Ian. So if I just leave it in one big pile it will compost into soil? Anything I can ad like fertilizer to speed it up? I'm relocating it one wheelbarrow at a time to the back yard and want to know if I should start adding fertilizer layer by layer. Help!!! Neighbor's are complaining.
Ok. My intention was to put mulch around my plants and trees, but I guess I will build a pile in the back yard and let nature takes it's course. Man I wish I had tractor.
i get mulch also from 3 tree services for free , my soil is good (dark brown and no rocks ) i used the mulch for my flower beds and orchard to keep moister in and weeds out .i live in oregon in the willamette valley ,zone 8 b , most of our mulch is from pine and oak, i do give free drinks on hot days like a bottle of coke, also gave them a free rooster once, and at times sent them with a 20$ , if you had to pay for what is brought and it was bark t it would be over 100$
You are 110% correct. The wide mix of materials in the tree company mulch is awesome. Nice, big mix of stuff - lots of minerals, great fungi, all the good stuff... it transformed my North Florida food forest.
David The Good watches pete kanaris! So cool...😎
@@vizwhiz100 Florida boys gotta stick together.
We be in lakeland...central as it gets!
As an Australian Permie, it seems a lot of Good comes from Florida. Live long and prosper boys :)
your videos are absolutely the best.. I have traveled the planet for 50 years and your filming is so good..
Wow, thanks! I’m fairly new at film work and videography. I’m always trying to get better and take things to the next level. I appreciate the feedback.
Thanks for the video. I know this is a gardening channel but I will say it again I love when you talk about building community and relationships. Thanks again.
Yup, love the short vids, lotsa info there...I recently was gifted the oak/pine mulch from my neighbor cutting down his trees, the guys were more than happy to get rid of it and a $20.00 tip made for good friends. That's about the only thing I like about hurricanes, free mulch and lots of free plumeria starts...we sure lucked out with Dorian...!!!
So the media over exaggerated this hurricane too making people buy tons of goods? sounds about right. You watch a whole day of non stop hurricane news, buy, buy, buy, evacuate, panic, then no coverage following like it never happened.
Awesome! I’ll keep them coming. You aren’t joking, we really lucked out with the hurricane.
I watch all alternative weather on the internet not the local. This was my 6th hurricane, I bought my generator after Irma, 11 days w/o power, but you can totally see that the weather futures on Wall Street were making a killing again...I didn't buy anything more than a normal week of groceries, except rum, a pirate can't run out of rum, gas yes, but not rum...lol...
You are so right. Mulch, mulch, mulch! Free and golden!
We dug out a big long pit and had the tree trimmers fill it up with mulch. After the rainy season we pulled all that out to use for the market garden. I have been mulching my farm for 5+ years and the productivity is amazing. I also tip my drivers and give them lots of bananas! Thanks to you ,Matt and the crew for the great videos.
Great idea! Good stuff
Love both formats long or short... always filled with useful new information. Thanks Pete!
Awesome, thanks Joe!
I like the shorter videos. Thanks for the information.
On it!
Agreed , short and to the point, good stuff
Pound the short concise vids. I relocated to the Ozark forest and WOW. We grow trees rocks and mycelium. Love having REAL dirt. Can't wait to greenhouse all the wonderful fruit trees that you grow in your back yard using dirt.
Great video, Pete. Awesome fungi growth in those piles. Short videos great and longer videos great. Mix is good. Cheers
Thanks Scott!
Love Chip drop, have gotten 4 truckloads in the passed year and have converted my backyard into a garden. I tip them $20 each time and always get mulch when I ask for it. My HOA in Sanford, FL is really good about not giving me a hard time when a 40 ft load sits in my driveway for a month and I move it into the backyard after work each day. Our amount of rain here is ideal, I've spread at least 1-2 ft over the cardboard I initially laid down and the soil it's created is great. I like both your long and short videos. Thanks for sharing 🌻
Kate
Awesome Kate! Glad to hear chip drop worked fir you. I actually just updated my account last night 😝
Hey Pete, I have been watching videos for over 6 years starting while I was getting chemo. Your videos are very informative, especially for our area. I wanted to say thank you for sharing your knowledge. Please keep sharing and inspiring us! I hope to meet you one day and personally thank you. Wishing you and your family great health! Hugh
Wow, thanks for sharing! Wishing you good health 🙌
Wow this is the perfect topic for me today. Had two free loads of mulched dumped from a local tree company and just had a friend bring his tractor over to spread them into my beds down here in south Florida. Plan on getting a couple more and letting it sit and break down to use in my planned veggie garden and around my fruit trees I have been planting. My two piles sat about a month and were already breaking down on the middle and full of fungi!
Great video man, like the shorter video.
Could you do a video of good ways to protect your fruiting trees from hurricanes in Florida using permaculture? Like what are good perimeter trees to slow down the wind speed but won't blow over? That oak got talking about?
My property in Starke is mostly wooded, native oak and others. Don't cut trees down , they are Natures wind barrier. Or plant trees that are Native to your area.
@@andy6043 I'm thinking of buying land in Florida and if it already had perimeters trees I would have definitely leave them but in the worst case scenario if the land had no or little trees on the perimeter I'm curious to know what can be planted that will grow fast enough and have a good root system to not people blown over.
@@thebeardedgrower4625 I bought 2.1 acres with a d/w trailer to take care of Mom and Dad next door. Got into Permaculture several years later and I'm still trying to learn. Wind up to 60 or so since I've been here, (Irma) but you don't feel much on the ground in open areas. I would stay with Natives for wind protection. My neighbors had roofs blown off of sheds etc. but I had no damage. I have tree's, they don't. Hope this helps.
Just trim the trees properly and its not an issue, buffer trees just mean more hurrican clean up later.
@@gnarlytreeman in permaculture your modeling off nature so a proper tree trim is no trim at all. Fruiting trees will naturally grow without needing to be pruned it's when they get pruned that you have issues and they will need to be pruned for the rest of its life
Great teaching video Pete , well done.
Awesome video! I love seeing you being interviewed instead of you interviewing for a change. Very good at explaining as well.
Well done!
Thank you! Glad to hear people like this film style
Many folks don’t have any place to put a mountain of mulch so bagged mulch is a good alternative. We are replacing grass lawns with cypress mulch and using slash and drop so we achieve a mix of leaves and trigs quickly atop the mulch. Best part about cypress mulch it doesn’t float away. A moringa and Mexican sunflower hedge feeds our lot with endless green hay to supplement mulch.
Great video--I bought Mycellium Running when Paul Stamets first released it, Pete...he's an icon...was immediately hooked !! Great book--and well produced--just as with your vids ! ;) I don't know who produced the vibration in the intro (wife ? ), but loved it...concise content throughout, too. Don't mind the longer video's when there is a ton of content, but shorter vids are usually preferred. Some youtubers (like John Kohler) unfortunately get too extemporaneous and opinionated :) One thing I might add, though--I have noted a LOT Of people still confuse saprophytic fungi with mutualistic endo & ecto fungi--not the same ! btw, I have 2 bismarkia nobilis palms now approaching almost 20 yrs--they get huge ! Now getting popular here in Phx finally...I have used colored mulch (did a lot of research) but very rarely and obviously not as beneficial as fresh wood & leaf chip mulch...especially, if the goal is to build proper organic soil, laden with microbes, mycorr & decomposers
Love your channel. I live in Tampa “a lot of sand - no soil” I’ve learned a lot. Thank you!!!
Awesome! Glad to help
Thanks! Appreciate the short video format as well. It’s great to spread info and tips. And I’m so looking forward to your video about syntropyc farming. I’ve been hooked on the subject and the work and philosophy of Ernst Goetsch for a while.
Thanks for the feedback! I just took a 7 day course in Costa Rica, videos coming soon. Both of the teachers were close friends with Ernst.
Your tractor makes quick work of that pile! (I'm jealous, but my shovel and wheelbarrow are happy to still have a job, lol). Good call on the biodiverse, multi-textured tree material. Differently sized material also lets moisture and air air down into the material and soil. I spread 40 yards, but had some kiddo help.
Im just a big boy with toys! 😝
I’ve actually been in the industry for 20yrs now and didn’t get my first tractor until 2011. Game changer for the old back.
Pete， my worry is gone after watching this VID. 😄 Our land in Osceola county is sooo sandy sooo white, as white as PA's winter snow. Me and my husband were so worry about how to prepare the type of soil ? So we can grow sth on it. Thanks!
Same here, in N. Brevard, snow white beach/sugar sand. Mulch is great, you'll get some humus and activity underneath, but sand it will remain. You'll never turn it into "black gold", no matter how much you add. View the sand more as a substrate than soil, a place to hold your plants, not feed them so much. Feed the roots and the foliage liquid (compost tea, fish emulsion, worm leachate, etc) frequently, rather than rarely and deep, as it will just disappear into the sand. This is a bit counterintuitive to the "feed the soil" mantra that works so well elsewhere, but sand will quickly gobble up whatever you feed it. Put whatever amendments you use (worm castings, compost, etc) on top rather than digging in; it'll last longer. Anyway, that's my strategy on my ancient seashore ridge!
We make compost with biochar using mixed hardwoods and leaves. It makes super good compost
Thank you so much for sharing this. You have truly been a blessing.
I love shorter format videos . Videos that dont beat around the Bush to revealing the content of what the title addresses . There is a hundred of videos on this topic so the less viewing time is a thumbs up for the video
I cant maintain adequate heat in my leaf and weed compost pile unless I spike it with household ammonia but the mulch operation next door their pulverized piles emits steam all year . What gives the mostly ground up huge stumps and legs I have never seen leafed branches being ground up. So I'm suspect on this green to brown formula
The white to light gray stuff, especially in hotter piles is likely to be thermophilic(heat loving) actinomycetes, not exactly fungi or bacteria. They are especially good at breaking down the lignin in woody material. You might suggest during the dry season if the trimmer mulch is fairly dry it is best to wet it down so the life can stay alive.
It ake a A LOT of water to wet down a pile. Like watering 2-3 days with a sprinkler.
If kept too dry some mulch can grow molds which are irritant I had some and needed to use a P-100 particle mask to prevent respiratory irritation.
Sick intro.... Editing game strong with this one!!
You beat me to this comment! ;)
Thanks Brad! My man Lennon don’t play 👊
Thank You for that information.
Great video, Pete, thanks for sharing it.
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Again Pete, I love the video and sooo! Jealous I don’t have a piece of land to make my little paradise! 😎
I strongly believe that must people have this strong natural desire to grow things! Produce, fruit and flowers 🌸 I get very attached and protective with my plants I grow in my balcony! 😂😂😂 I started a miracle tree! So please don’t touch it! 😂
Thanks Ed! Hoping one day you find your slice of heaven and forever home fir those plants 🙏
Had our first load of arborist chippings this summer. It was really fresh and within probably a week or two it was decomposing before our eyes. The pile was hot enough to steam when I started to distribute it around the yard. We typically pay $75 for delivery through the arborist directly, but that's a small price to pay for how well it works in the yard. Our area isn't on ChipDrop.
Nice! Thanks for sharing
Any place you talk about the different types of mulberries and maybe how to prune them? Thanks for your videos!
Bell pounded harder on Green dreams than any other youtube channel!
You the man! 👊
Love the video Pete, but I would like to see some longer ones. too!
Great tips Pete👌
Awesome Pete keep it pump up brother and thanks for the share !!!!
Thanks Rafael!
Woo! Look at that shiny new tractor!
Shorter video is great especially when it's content specific.
Windswept...agree ! but I love all Pete's vids...even the longer ones (which are usually tours) are content laden...
Great information. People ask me why my garden grows so well. I tell them this: Out of all the things I do on my 3 acres mulching is the most important thing I do.
Thanks David!
Another dope video my dude. Shared it with some friends
Thanks bro! Let me know when you’re ready to get on the show 😉
Im in coastal ga and recently got a load of pine. Its working fabulous to build out some new areas for my food forrest in training ;) got it free from a local tree company. Im sure after hurricane dorian more mulch will be in abundance!
Nice!
Thanks
I've called The Mulch Man I've given them tips and I've even offered to bring trucks by their respective jobs so that they can spray the most directly into my trucks but to no great avail my guess is other mulch craving individuals like myself it's just got more attractive offers
Of course I'll keep trying
The Wisdom from you Pete,keep it green brother...nice vid... great work and passion...✌️👌🌴🌱
Thanks Eddie! 👊
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Looks good brother I'm in DeLeon Springs been getting wood chips from the cruise pruning the power lines but recently I think I hit the jackpot I got some Mexican buddies who have been harvesting deer Moss and other foliage from the forest for 7 years they gather everything on tarps loaded in trucks bring it home go through it bring out what they can sell for cut foliage or whatever and the rest is just accumulated for the past 7 years until I came along last month so far I have gotten about 30 yards of it probably another 70 or 80 yards there all needles Twigs leaves cones and other debris from their harvesting the forest they're happy to get it out of there and they just keep getting more
Great catch!
I have 8.5 acres in Nicaragua that is hard-pack clay. We do not have access to tree mulch like you show in this video, so I created my own source using Gliricidia sepium (called madero negro here) a leguminous tree that grows fast and is great for making mulch. I joke that I am more of a Gliricidia farmer than anything, with close to 1500 of the trees on my property. Gliricidia can be pollarded over and over with no ill effects. They provide shade and fertilizer for young fruit trees, as each time they are pollarded, the roots dump nitrogen into the soil. The mulch also is high in nitrogen. For my farm, Gliricidia sepium is the perfect green manure mulch tree. I also use Tithonia that you have featured in some of your videos.
That’s awesome Angela! Im very familiar with the gliricidia, they called it quick stick in Costa Rica. I think it was commonly used for living fences also? Yeah this quick growing pioneer species are crucial when mulch isn’t available. Keep up the good work!
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Pete! 10 min videos are good especially if it’s uploaded often and even one add wouldn’t deter me, but every now and then it’s good to have a garden tour or what ever like the flying fox videos with Adam are cool.
Hope all is well and you’re all safe
Thanks for the feedback!
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL you’re welcome G’day from Australia 🇦🇺
Mulch life! Keep up the good work!
Thanks bro! 👊
Thanks for another great video! All the best all the way from Ireland! :D
Thank you! 🙏
I definitely like the shorter videos. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the feedback Karen!
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Anytime! :)
I like your videos any way you make them. Short or long it doesn’t matter to me.
I agree with you, I do too.
diggin these short ones, but also love the long tours of peoples farms
Thanks for the feedback!
Great video And your information is spot on
Thanks Mark!
Great idea system
Awesome stuff, Pete! 👍🏻
Thanks for the info! Great video!
Glad it was helpful!
Mulch is great to build soil and humus, but the fastest way is actually with multispecies green manure. If you plant 15 or 20 species of cover crops like they do in New Zealand you can build soil really fast, especially in Florida with your rainy season. Plants inject carbon in the soil through rhizodeposition when they grow, and that represents more than twice the amount of carbon that would be given back to the soil once those plants die and decompose. And the more species you have, the more productive it is, plants just help each other, especially if you mix grasses, brassicaceaes and legumes. I totally agree though that the best mulch is the one that your soil is already used to eat. You can still use pine, like I do, it just takes longer to decompose. But when I chop down all the tall weed in the wild area in our urban garden, some quite tough and woody, and use it as mulch, like 5 cm of it, the soil eats it in a matter of weeks, one month tops.
Was just commenting on Richard Perkins channel about mushrooms and shared a Paul Stamets video on the clean up of industrial waste
Too funny! I like Richard and his work.
This was mesmerizing, I learned a great deal. I love your philosophy.
Hey, I am in Miami and though that having fruit trees on our Swales would feed the community. Others say that this is against the law.
Hi 👋 I have a tree guy that delivers oak mulch for me do I need to worry about termites.? Thanks so much for sharing your time and information
Hello! I’ve never had a termite problem with Mulch. Now old logs is a different story
Great video!! Love all format videos!!
Thanks Tyler!
Wow🙏 for me this place is a paradise. I would like to find a place like this, here, in my city, full of mulch just for me😍
It’s my mulch heaven!
Best ways to get mulch for me:
1 Call several tree service companies near you, ask if they deliver mulch for gardens. All mulch works, some looks better than others, after some time and rain, they all turn into the same rich compost
2 Chipdrop.com works in some areas, don't be picky about the mulch, tip them. Could take weeks or months to get a load, may not get a load at all...
3 Your local city greenery services may offer mulch and compost. This works better if you have a truck or trailer [or can borrow one] and can haul it yourself, some cities will deliver to you
4 Craigslist, or local apps that connect neighborhoods with goods and services. Mulch will be listed there sometimes
5 Heavily prune unwanted trees and shrubbery on your own land, use it as mulch
6 Offer to cut down weeds or unwanted small trees or shrubbery from neighbors. Chop it up, spread it in your garden
7 Repeat step one but this time offer to provide food, beer, or other trades to entice and convince
another smashing video my friend!
Thanks Matt! 👊
Great video!!
Thanks guys!
Great information ..
Thanks Dan!
We want to learn from nature, leaves and twigs drop in the fall, mulch the ground, and compost during winter for the summer. Trees also fall down and their wood trunks turn into compost as they decompose in the forest floor. All kinds of bugs and life join in as part of this process
Although the fall here in CA is the best time for mulching, I also mulch whenever I can and when its available. Its not a perfect world
Mulch in florida is hurricane and overgrowth trash. Its awesome and easy to get, and rots super fast in florida.
I got like 6 loads of so free from the county landfill, it brought in like 10 or 12 different mushroom varieties most i had never seen before and I grew up in florida.
In florida the county landfill provide this stuff free to residents.
Im planning to cover my property with 6" a year, should be doable for a half acre.
Hey Pete!
I may have to use that quote about the internet of soil... ;) so in NY invasive insects like the emerald ash borer spreads through firewood and what not, how do you address that problem of tree guys cutting a LOT of infected ash trees and taking their mulch and potentially further spreading the borer?
Hey man! Go for it 👊
Good question with the borer. I’m not sure they should sit around during the hot process.
Chip Drop is in Florida aren't they, I think they're the ones I'm thinking of, they're not going to want to drive all the way to Oklahoma and I wouldn't ask them to?. I'll have to try one of the other options if I need it. Right now I'm just using the grass clippings from my lawn, I've got a small mountain of it right now. I was always afraid the dyed mulch was not good for the plants plus they want too much money for it.The mulch definitely helps keep a person from needing to water as much, this is really the first year I've used it but I'll be using it from now on because it is beneficial.
The shorter videos are ok, but you can't get everything in a short video with some of what you have shown us. Thanks Pete, those are good tips.
I’m pretty sure chip drop is nationwide. I updated on the website the other day and already received a load this week. Be sure to update after your first load. It also helps to offer some cash.
Chipdrop is not a place, it's an app.
Paul is my man for mushrooms just like your my man for permaculture.
Awesome! 👊
great info 👏👏👏👏
You are a good guy.
Thanks 🙏
Love it!
Outstanding 💕😎
Thanks 🙏
Coming at us with syntropic farming? Uh yes please do!! Ernst Gotsch in South America? Guy in philippines doing the J something something grow your own? All of it please, love the information and your work! We are looking at moving back to my wife's home in Kenya or Costa Rica. Definitely would love to have you consult one day, in the meantime I love watching Green Dreams
Thanks Carmelo! Yes, Ernst from Brazil. I’ve actually been invited to his farm also...
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Sweet! I just remembered JADAM is the name of that one in Asia. Maybe we will see a youtube Green Dreams entry from Brazil one day!
Great info!! Ive leaned a lot from you, Thank you!
I find my idol 😁 thank you very much for information and great video, you are awesome! 👍❤️
I’ve been using mulch and compost in my garden in the last 3 1/2 years and it’s a big difference in yard. It’s free but takes time.
I add molasses to water and wet down the mulch so it attracts worms and other beneficials to help break it down faster
Great video! Can you also do a video on making and applying bio char?
Thanks! Yes, I have an older one but can make an updated version.
Love these pro tip videos
Great video! Can you also use bamboo leaves for mulch? I have heard bamboo leaves take longer
MULCH LOVE. City of Saint Petersburg, FL. Free mulch at brush sites. Or they will deliver truck loads, when you order it for a delivery fee.
Never been more fascinated by anything than l am by mushrooms. Mushrooms and trees have what's called a mycorrhyzal relationship. They need each other to exchange nutrients the other can't produce, so calling them the internet of the forest is spot on, although the tree roots themselves are part of that connection. l'm currently battling Brazilian pepper. Heard something interesting but don't know the veracity. Brazilian pepper l know is allelopathic. l've mulched the smaller branches, and someone said that leaves their allelopathic poison in the soil and might suppress growth of other things. If it were native, l'd say nature has probably worked that out. Being it's not native and l've seen how it can take over, l'm open to it being a possibility. Amazing how hot the inside of a fresh mulch pile can get so shortly after it's been piled up.
Judging by how monocultural stands of BP quickly become, you may be correct. I say burn it all for biochar!
Pounden.love the info.
Loved the video. Great information. What's your opinion on putting mushroom compost around mango trees. Thanks
Thanks! I don’t think it could hurt to top dress the tree with it
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Mulch and then mulch some more.
Mulch is magic.
Word! 🙌
loved this vid mate thank you
Awesome! Thanks
Never though of using Brazilian Pepper tree (invasive) as a mulch source. They grow like weeds and are everywhere. Good thing I did not completely get ride of them. Thanks for the tip.
I would have never used it before but I’ve seen good results. In Brazil they grow it as a chop and drop species in these subtropic farming systems.
New to gardening; neighbors freak out with mulch bc of termites. I am new to FL too. What's the answer? How can I calm them?
Lovin' it!!!
Thanks Mike! 👊
Excellent episode. Fungi = life = death and repeat.
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Awesome great video...do you add worms ?? I don't have a thick layer ...
Still sandy...
Thanks! No, the worms just show up.
Love the shorter videos! Also, what do you think about pine mulch? There are no leaves to mix in with it but I’ve got A TON of it! Should I soak it in compost tea before putting on my garden?
Thanks! Pine mulch is good also it just doesn’t have the carbon/nitrogen ratio. It needs to break down longer before being applied. Spraying the pile with em1 and compost tea will speed up the break down process.
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL thank you!
your videos are gold pete. in queensland australia our soils the same as florida, so can apply the info you provide. also have you worked much with tamarillo?
Thank you! No, I’ve never grown tamarillo
I would add that if your going to get your hands on tree mulch or chips spread them or stockpile them but don’t tiller them into your soils.
Shorth videos rule; my ADD doesn't mind.
Do you mix palm with oak or anything else?
It tends to mix itself in the pile a little while turning it. I don’t really have a ratio we follow fir mixing them. I do try to lay the palm at the bottle when installing thick mulch.
I was so discouraged after I ordered chipdrop mulch and the load has mostly palm tree material. I guess from all the downed Palm trees here from hurricane Ian. So if I just leave it in one big pile it will compost into soil? Anything I can ad like fertilizer to speed it up? I'm relocating it one wheelbarrow at a time to the back yard and want to know if I should start adding fertilizer layer by layer. Help!!! Neighbor's are complaining.
Palm mulch works well, it takes a while to break down
Ok. My intention was to put mulch around my plants and trees, but I guess I will build a pile in the back yard and let nature takes it's course. Man I wish I had tractor.
i get mulch also from 3 tree services for free , my soil is good (dark brown and no rocks ) i used the mulch for my flower beds and orchard to keep moister in and weeds out .i live in oregon in the willamette valley ,zone 8 b , most of our mulch is from pine and oak, i do give free drinks on hot days like a bottle of coke, also gave them a free rooster once, and at times sent them with a 20$ , if you had to pay for what is brought and it was bark t it would be over 100$
That’s great! Yup, in California they get paid $250-$300 per load to dump it.