Always love your flower and veggie updates esp when you mention your kids helping out or that they eat what you planted. I also enjoy your dogs and farm animals. - Zee, N. Cali zone10a
Thank you for the walk through of your garden. Your garden is beautiful. I can only speculate from my own perspective and use of wood shavings that depletion of nitrogen tends to be what occurs until the shavings have been broken down (composted) long enough. Your tomatoes are doing amazing. The cool weather this summer (along with deer that got into the garden) have basically set us back (big time). With fences up now (8 footer), we are hoping for a half-decent fall harvest. Wishing you all the best with your garden! 😊👍
Chelsea, send our rain here!!! No rain for weeks here. Temperatures have been between 105 and 115 degrees with a heat index up to 125 degrees. I purchased peat moss, and place it in my beds. The peat wasn't good had major issues in all beds. Veggies barely grew, and had tons of strange grass growing from the peat moss. Then the heat is also killing off the veggies. I am pulling everything, and starting my fall garden. Your gardens are beautiful! Wow, and the berries, and fruit. Okay, its official....I'm happy for you....and a tad jealous😊
Not sure if you know, but instead of snapping off the garlic scape try pulling it out, there are 3-4 inches of scape in the stem you can harvest still. ❤
Super happy to have found your channel!! Most gardeners on YT are so much more south than me and I’m in 4B. Love hearing some of your feedback on lessons learned and types of veggies you like. I’m taking notes and going to try some for next year. 🥕👩🌾
Hi Chelsea! I'm not 100 percent sure because I didn't get a close look - but if I'm right those are harlequin bugs, which are no friend to brassicas! I've had new pests this year also, which is no fun!
The weather is certainly different from everyone’s normal. M Most of the State & parts of Europe are experiencing dangerous heat like never before & a devastating drought! Some of our midwestern famers have had to sell their livestock due to this multi year drought. It’s so so sad!😪 Your garden has shot up and looking luscious since the last video. Hope you and your family are doing well❣️
Love you place in the country, good to see you. I don’t think there’s been any place where the gardens have been perfect, the weather is so different this year. We are thankful for what we can get off the land this year😊
Great to see u again. Your tomatoes are incredible. Mine have tons of flowers and some tomatoes but it feels late. I have to keep reminding myself it’s still July. Great job on the garden. Take care💖🇨🇦
Just FYI. We live in northern maine. This is a major commercial Forrest area. When they plant a species of tree for lumber etc commercially they aerial spray pesticides and herbicides to keep underbrush and pests away. It is imperative that you only purchase organic mulch, shavings, etc. Also important to avoid most pallets of any type as even when used for groceries they get pesticides and poisons spilled on them frequently. So sorry you had crop issues.
I’ve done research into this since finding out about it, and yes, they are spraying the forests in our region with glyphosate and other broad leaf herbicides. I’m so frustrated that this isn’t common knowledge. Thank you for sharing.
Good morning Chelsea from our farm in New Hampshire. You are one of the few farms I follow that is colder than our Zone 4B. We only have a small green house, but someday would like to have a high tunnl. Really nice to see your variety of vegetables and flowers. We just finished our first hay cutting. Should be close to 6,000 bales off 40 acres. Now we are experiencing a moderate drought, so second cutting doesn't look all that promising. Not sure if we can have currents or gooseberries. Looks like you have some good crops to harvest. We raise grass fed beef and have multiple vegetable gardens. I have been buying and bartering for honey and other vegetables we either don't grow or experienced crop failure~ Diane
I saw a video that says It was probably a nitrogen problem from the raw wood shavings. Straw can cause the same problem. Sounds like you did the right thing. Always add extra organic matter first before adding that as mulch. Or used aged hardwood mulch. Kudos for you. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for posting a garden tour. I had a rocky start on my small city garden (late frost and a booming wild rabit population) too but everything is catching up pretty quickly now with the heat and the rain. I'm also practicing this year with starting plants from seed in my mini $50 popup greenhouse and it helped me fill in the holes in my garden. I look forward to future posts.
OH WOW .. it never occured to me that it was the wood shavings .. my plants are having problems too and i mulched with the same pine shavings for chickens ... dang it .. thank you thank you thank you
It was a bit hard to tell, but the beetle you mentioned may be a harlequin bug. They can be a big problem for brassicas, mainly broccoli and cauliflower in my experience. They lay strange white and black egg clusters that are pretty easy to identify. I hope they don't become a problem for you in the future, because they're quite the pest in my garden :(
Great looking garden! And holy, lots of potatoes! We had a miserable, cold spring here in Manitoba (zone 3) and it took me ages to get anything planted! We kind of skipped spring...it pretty much went straight to +35 in June) I would have had a good cry if I would have had such a killing frost after planting, especially with the crazy prices at the moment. The sea buckthorn looks great. We planted a few last year and can't wait to get some berries from them!
Mills use a fungicide on the lumber to keep it from molding while in the stack after it’s planed smooth. So when the ends are trimmed to length anything that is cut off is made into chips or shavings. I don’t know if this is the cause but just a idea!?
Hi Chelsea! I also have a problem with soil contamination this year. My garden is much much smaller than yours and I covered the whole thing with new compost so my whole garden is struggling. Here in Texas, we're having the opposite weather that you are having. I'm about to pull everything, scrape off the top like you did and replant. My first frost date is around November 20th, so I have some time to start over. Your garden is such an inspiration, thank you so much for sharing!
Pine shavings can cause high acidity in soil which can starve the plants of proper nutrition. Great for blueberries and acid loving plants not good for peppers. Good that you removed it!!!! We also have been dealing with cold spring and cold early summer, our high tunnel is doing well but anything outside of that is small and struggling!!
Awesome to see au post! Great garden tour. Overall, everything is looking good. I planted some bush beans and a deer got into them. I thought they would rebound, but after 2 weeks, there has been no new growth....so I'll replant.
This very interesting, we're also in zone 3B/4A (Ontario) and I thought that my banana peppers had too much rain (they looked like yours) and another raised bed with king of the north peppers that as cedar branch over it looks awesome I thought they had less rain. They both have pine shavings for mulch.
Hard to tell from the video but it sure has the shape of a Japanese Beetle. If it is metallic looking I'd say that's what it is? Very destructive buggars, lots here in my Ontario garden this year. That columbine is gorgeous.
@@LittleMountainRanch I saw them for the first time last year all around my cinnamon basil this year they are everywhere but especially on my Mountain Ash. I'm sad I didn't plant cinnamon basil this year as a trap plant. I just realized I'm currently wearing the same YCETG T-shirt as you only in white 😁👍🏻
I think that's what they are too. I have them in my backyard and they absolutely destroy my rose blossoms! Then they'll go for the raspberry leaves. I check for them daily and knock any I find into a soapy water dish, where they drown.
@@LittleMountainRanch I had the same problem when I used fresh pine shavings on a bed of strawberries. I determined it was a nitrogen lock and yes, the problem was almost immediate! The strawberry plants just sat there, not growing, and turned yellow.
@@LittleMountainRanch Oh. I see. The extra compost you laid under the woodchips might be contaminated. Thought you meant the woodchips as the contaminated. If it is the woodchips, perhaps check the roots of one of the peppers that look really sick to see if the outer part of the roots peel away easily. The woodchips could well contain a pathogen fungus, like Phytophthora….
@@LittleMountainRanch -I put a new raised bed in last year and used a raised bed potting mix that had a lot of wood in it as well as using woodchips for mulch. My peppers and eggplants struggled horribly. I ended up removing the chip mulch and using 10-10-10 fertilizer along with homemade compost just to get a small harvest right before frost. To much wood in the garden can really rob plants of nitrogen. Normally Grazon herbicide isn’t used on trees, so the likely hood of it being in pine shavings is slim.
Wood shavings/chips/saw dust from fresh "green trees" i.e. from trees that were growing when they were cut, should never be used as mulch. As the fresh chips sit in a pile they begin to ferment and turn sour, vinegary-like smell, called sour mulch....yes it's a thing, learned that in our Master Gardener Class years ago. They need to sit in a pile for a at least 2 years and until they go through that process need to be turned occasionally so they don't become aneorobic. Once that process is completed, you can use as a top dressing, as they still need to go through the composting process before they can be mixed into the soil. Also some roadside brush and understory trees are sometimes chemically treated to kill, then they cut and shred it...it could be a case of that too, or maybe even both. Hope this helps.
Sometimes wood ships etc. are treated with chemicals, paint, usually then there is a notice on the bags that they are not suited for veggies. But those can be dangerous when you have pets that like to chew on wood. We had a dog get very sick from it :-( Now I use landscape fabric instead of mulch for my veggies, also works great to keep weeds away and not to have to give as much water. If you like to keep mulching, growing comfrey is a good one to make mulch from and is a great fertilizer.
Wow that is interesting with the shavings. I often worry they put fire retardant on some brands of them so if they are used in a barn or coop would not ignite. I worry because I do put some in with my goats under their straw and try to make sure there are no chemicals because they eat them, however its not necessarily on the packaging label I believe. The little bug is a bit hard to see but if it is a red soldier beetle they eat bad bugs and actually help pollinate the plants. And don't eat plants. We have had very not the best condition weather either it has been crazy. First time I have tried growing celery too and it is doing ok but not as good as yours yet but I am hopeful because it seems quite happy! Always love seeing you thank you when you are able. Hugs
sometimmes fresh shavings will pull nitrogen from the soil and as you probably know nitrogen is responsible for green leafy growth. so save those pine shavings and compost for a couple of years and they will make a good mulch. When I worked for a greenhouse I would often get questions from customers having the same experience also be careful with green grass clippings it ca have the same effect.
Hi Chelsea: Could the pine shavings have been too fresh , therefore acidic, which would interfere with the nitrogen uptake in your pepper plants? That would definitely impact growth and leaf greeness.
Such a difference from last summer when you had super high record heat. Sorry you've lost so much. So many people have gotten contaminated soil this year... Genius about shaking your fence for pollinating!!
I use pine shavings on my blueberries to make soil more acidic.. do peppers like acidic soil? I don’t grow peppers - or should say I’ve given up trying.
Hi there One year I had incorporated pine wood shavings into the garden soil in order to retain some moisture and whole crop was killed in the matter of days. I believe pine is very acidic and can be very harmful for some plants. Even when used in composting pine will decompost the last. Otherwise beautiful video as always. Cheers from Toronto, Ontario
I appreciate you sharing your experience. I’ve done research into this and have found that pine shavings don’t effect soil PH in general. Here are a few links I found helpful. www.walterreeves.com/landscaping/ph-pine-materials/ www.houzz.com/discussions/2090270/pine-shavings-mulch There’s lot’s more information out there in this in you’re interested.😊
Not enough to make the soil acidic, even pine needles won't acidify the soil to a point where it's unhealthy PH. Its what's called sour chips, from chips fermenting in a piled zndxwasn't turned and has become vinegary-like. You can even smell the vinegar sourness. It's especially bad with chips from fresh cut green trees.
I got a load of horse barn clean out this spring and I am scared to death to put it on any of my garden. IA there any way to test it before I ruin a bed?
Hi Chelsea, so excited to see your whole garden. My growing conditions are similar to yours as I’m in North western Washington. What do you use to make sure your soil has enough nutrients? Is it just manure compost or do you also add fertilizers or others things? Good luck with everything as your harvest comes in. 💕
Those look like Japanese bottles. They have decorated my garden the last 2 years. They don't bother tomatoes and peppers but they destroyed everything else.
Not to give you a scare or anything, but if there is an unknown chemical in those woodshavings that has affected those plants, are you serious about consuming whatever they produce? Even though they might be picking up in growth now, those chemicals will also be in the "fruit" it produces... :think:
I've used pine shavings in my garden and never had a problem until this year. Some of our plants with shavings were stunted\yellow but others are doing great so I don't know what the deal is. The ones that were stunned and yellow are growing fine now still smaller than expected but green and growing now. I keep wondering if the shavings caused it except some of the plants weren't effected at all (tomotoes are fine which are notoriously finicky)
Hoping those potatoes and tomatoes make up for the other losses and disappointments. I feel for you. Looks like Japanese Beatles. They're terribly destructive. I hope I'm wrong.
So great to see some Canadian content! There is a good chance that the chlorosis on your pepper plants was from the woodchips but not because they were contaminated. Uncomposted woodchips are nitrogen robbers, so shouldn’t be used in the garden directly. Too much to explain the science here, but that’s probably why you saw pretty quick results when you removed them. Compost first then lay it down in the veggie beds 🥬
Zone 7a. You are so lucky you do not have the cabbage moth. We can not grow and cool crops after early May. Jealous! Looks good. So much work.
Hi Rachel how are you doing today
Always love your flower and veggie updates esp when you mention your kids helping out or that they eat what you planted. I also enjoy your dogs and farm animals. - Zee, N. Cali zone10a
Thank you for the walk through of your garden. Your garden is beautiful.
I can only speculate from my own perspective and use of wood shavings that depletion of nitrogen tends to be what occurs until the shavings have been broken down (composted) long enough. Your tomatoes are doing amazing. The cool weather this summer (along with deer that got into the garden) have basically set us back (big time). With fences up now (8 footer), we are hoping for a half-decent fall harvest. Wishing you all the best with your garden! 😊👍
Chelsea, send our rain here!!! No rain for weeks here. Temperatures have been between 105 and 115 degrees with a heat index up to 125 degrees.
I purchased peat moss, and place it in my beds. The peat wasn't good had major issues in all beds. Veggies barely grew, and had tons of strange grass growing from the peat moss. Then the heat is also killing off the veggies. I am pulling everything, and starting my fall garden.
Your gardens are beautiful! Wow, and the berries, and fruit. Okay, its official....I'm happy for you....and a tad jealous😊
Not sure if you know, but instead of snapping off the garlic scape try pulling it out, there are 3-4 inches of scape in the stem you can harvest still. ❤
Super happy to have found your channel!! Most gardeners on YT are so much more south than me and I’m in 4B. Love hearing some of your feedback on lessons learned and types of veggies you like. I’m taking notes and going to try some for next year. 🥕👩🌾
Welcome!!😊
Hi Chelsea! I'm not 100 percent sure because I didn't get a close look - but if I'm right those are harlequin bugs, which are no friend to brassicas! I've had new pests this year also, which is no fun!
The weather is certainly different from everyone’s normal. M Most of the State & parts of Europe are experiencing dangerous heat like never before & a devastating drought! Some of our midwestern famers have had to sell their livestock due to this multi year drought. It’s so so sad!😪
Your garden has shot up and looking luscious since the last video. Hope you and your family are doing well❣️
Thanks for checking in. Blessings for a good harvest!
Love you place in the country, good to see you.
I don’t think there’s been any place where the gardens have been perfect, the weather is so different this year. We are thankful for what we can get off the land this year😊
Great to see u again. Your tomatoes are incredible. Mine have tons of flowers and some tomatoes but it feels late. I have to keep reminding myself it’s still July. Great job on the garden. Take care💖🇨🇦
Your such a sweet person. Great garden talk! Thank you for being a part of the solution!!!
Here in Alberta we wait for the BC blueberries… and the cherries… and apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines etc …. 😂🙌🏻much💕
Enjoy you videos. I hope you have a good harvest. This years weather has been very unpredictable.
I had tons of squash this year and no tomatoes or cucumbers. Lots of peppers and no tomatillos. Corn did terrible too. I’m in 8a.
You. Are very nice. And best harvest in your garden thank you very mach sun shine
Just FYI. We live in northern maine. This is a major commercial Forrest area. When they plant a species of tree for lumber etc commercially they aerial spray pesticides and herbicides to keep underbrush and pests away. It is imperative that you only purchase organic mulch, shavings, etc. Also important to avoid most pallets of any type as even when used for groceries they get pesticides and poisons spilled on them frequently. So sorry you had crop issues.
I’ve done research into this since finding out about it, and yes, they are spraying the forests in our region with glyphosate and other broad leaf herbicides. I’m so frustrated that this isn’t common knowledge. Thank you for sharing.
Good morning Chelsea from our farm in New Hampshire. You are one of the few farms I follow that is colder than our Zone 4B. We only have a small green house, but someday would like to have a high tunnl. Really nice to see your variety of vegetables and flowers. We just finished our first hay cutting. Should be close to 6,000 bales off 40 acres. Now we are experiencing a moderate drought, so second cutting doesn't look all that promising. Not sure if we can have currents or gooseberries.
Looks like you have some good crops to harvest. We raise grass fed beef and have multiple vegetable gardens. I have been buying and bartering for honey and other vegetables we either don't grow or experienced crop failure~ Diane
That’s great hay production off of a relatively small area. Awesome!
I saw a video that says It was probably a nitrogen problem from the raw wood shavings. Straw can cause the same problem. Sounds like you did the right thing. Always add extra organic matter first before adding that as mulch. Or used aged hardwood mulch. Kudos for you. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for posting a garden tour. I had a rocky start on my small city garden (late frost and a booming wild rabit population) too but everything is catching up pretty quickly now with the heat and the rain. I'm also practicing this year with starting plants from seed in my mini $50 popup greenhouse and it helped me fill in the holes in my garden. I look forward to future posts.
That’s awesome! 😊
OH WOW .. it never occured to me that it was the wood shavings .. my plants are having problems too and i mulched with the same pine shavings for chickens ... dang it .. thank you thank you thank you
It was a bit hard to tell, but the beetle you mentioned may be a harlequin bug. They can be a big problem for brassicas, mainly broccoli and cauliflower in my experience. They lay strange white and black egg clusters that are pretty easy to identify. I hope they don't become a problem for you in the future, because they're quite the pest in my garden :(
Great looking garden! And holy, lots of potatoes! We had a miserable, cold spring here in Manitoba (zone 3) and it took me ages to get anything planted! We kind of skipped spring...it pretty much went straight to +35 in June) I would have had a good cry if I would have had such a killing frost after planting, especially with the crazy prices at the moment. The sea buckthorn looks great. We planted a few last year and can't wait to get some berries from them!
Mills use a fungicide on the lumber to keep it from molding while in the stack after it’s planed smooth. So when the ends are trimmed to length anything that is cut off is made into chips or shavings. I don’t know if this is the cause but just a idea!?
You know, I’ll bet that’s it! I had no idea and now I’m wondering about using it with chickens - can’t be good for them either.
Your gardens a looking good considering the weather we have had this year. Mine is coming along slowly. Have a great week.
Everything, except the peppers, look great! So sorry about the contamination, ugh, nuts!
So nuts and so frustrating!
Thank you for showing us your beautiful garden ❤️
Hope you do a canning video on the blueberries and cherries! So happy your back doing videos
Hi Chelsea! I also have a problem with soil contamination this year. My garden is much much smaller than yours and I covered the whole thing with new compost so my whole garden is struggling. Here in Texas, we're having the opposite weather that you are having. I'm about to pull everything, scrape off the top like you did and replant. My first frost date is around November 20th, so I have some time to start over. Your garden is such an inspiration, thank you so much for sharing!
What I wouldn’t give for frost dates like those!!😊❤️
Pine shavings can cause high acidity in soil which can starve the plants of proper nutrition. Great for blueberries and acid loving plants not good for peppers. Good that you removed it!!!! We also have been dealing with cold spring and cold early summer, our high tunnel is doing well but anything outside of that is small and struggling!!
Have you tried dehydrating cauliflower, beet and broccoli leaves…makes an excellent green powder for cooking and smoothies…..
I have, but usually wait until canning season is over.
Awesome to see au post! Great garden tour. Overall, everything is looking good. I planted some bush beans and a deer got into them. I thought they would rebound, but after 2 weeks, there has been no new growth....so I'll replant.
Good call!
Beautiful garden.
This very interesting, we're also in zone 3B/4A (Ontario) and I thought that my banana peppers had too much rain (they looked like yours) and another raised bed with king of the north peppers that as cedar branch over it looks awesome I thought they had less rain. They both have pine shavings for mulch.
Hello i am from Germany, the potatoes Here wonderful too but IT IS very try Here. Best regards
Japanese....I have found lemon balm is a great deterrent for Japanese and lily beetles...I'm 4a and the lemon balm is perineal for me
Hard to tell from the video but it sure has the shape of a Japanese Beetle. If it is metallic looking I'd say that's what it is? Very destructive buggars, lots here in my Ontario garden this year. That columbine is gorgeous.
I just looked them up and I think you’re right. I’ve never seen them here before - not a welcome guest!
@@LittleMountainRanch I saw them for the first time last year all around my cinnamon basil this year they are everywhere but especially on my Mountain Ash. I'm sad I didn't plant cinnamon basil this year as a trap plant. I just realized I'm currently wearing the same YCETG T-shirt as you only in white 😁👍🏻
I think that's what they are too. I have them in my backyard and they absolutely destroy my rose blossoms! Then they'll go for the raspberry leaves.
I check for them daily and knock any I find into a soapy water dish, where they drown.
Raw new woodchips seek nitrogen to decompose. This sucks up nutrients required for the peppers.
Hope your peppers thrive! 🙏🏻
They do, but do you think it would be that dramatic in only a few weeks? I did layer compost under them to counteract that possibility.
@@LittleMountainRanch I had the same problem when I used fresh pine shavings on a bed of strawberries. I determined it was a nitrogen lock and yes, the problem was almost immediate! The strawberry plants just sat there, not growing, and turned yellow.
@@LittleMountainRanch Oh. I see. The extra compost you laid under the woodchips might be contaminated. Thought you meant the woodchips as the contaminated. If it is the woodchips, perhaps check the roots of one of the peppers that look really sick to see if the outer part of the roots peel away easily. The woodchips could well contain a pathogen fungus, like Phytophthora….
Check out “Living the Hight life OFF GRID” video three weeks ago. She got it and the video is really helpful.
@@LittleMountainRanch -I put a new raised bed in last year and used a raised bed potting mix that had a lot of wood in it as well as using woodchips for mulch. My peppers and eggplants struggled horribly. I ended up removing the chip mulch and using 10-10-10 fertilizer along with homemade compost just to get a small harvest right before frost. To much wood in the garden can really rob plants of nitrogen. Normally Grazon herbicide isn’t used on trees, so the likely hood of it being in pine shavings is slim.
Wood shavings/chips/saw dust from fresh "green trees" i.e. from trees that were growing when they were cut, should never be used as mulch. As the fresh chips sit in a pile they begin to ferment and turn sour, vinegary-like smell, called sour mulch....yes it's a thing, learned that in our Master Gardener Class years ago. They need to sit in a pile for a at least 2 years and until they go through that process need to be turned occasionally so they don't become aneorobic. Once that process is completed, you can use as a top dressing, as they still need to go through the composting process before they can be mixed into the soil. Also some roadside brush and understory trees are sometimes chemically treated to kill, then they cut and shred it...it could be a case of that too, or maybe even both. Hope this helps.
Super helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time.
Sometimes wood ships etc. are treated with chemicals, paint, usually then there is a notice on the bags that they are not suited for veggies. But those can be dangerous when you have pets that like to chew on wood. We had a dog get very sick from it :-( Now I use landscape fabric instead of mulch for my veggies, also works great to keep weeds away and not to have to give as much water. If you like to keep mulching, growing comfrey is a good one to make mulch from and is a great fertilizer.
Wow that is interesting with the shavings. I often worry they put fire retardant on some brands of them so if they are used in a barn or coop would not ignite. I worry because I do put some in with my goats under their straw and try to make sure there are no chemicals because they eat them, however its not necessarily on the packaging label I believe. The little bug is a bit hard to see but if it is a red soldier beetle they eat bad bugs and actually help pollinate the plants. And don't eat plants. We have had very not the best condition weather either it has been crazy. First time I have tried growing celery too and it is doing ok but not as good as yours yet but I am hopeful because it seems quite happy! Always love seeing you thank you when you are able. Hugs
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sometimmes fresh shavings will pull nitrogen from the soil and as you probably know nitrogen is responsible for green leafy growth. so save those pine shavings and compost for a couple of years and they will make a good mulch. When I worked for a greenhouse I would often get questions from customers having the same experience also be careful with green grass clippings it ca have the same effect.
Hi Chelsea: Could the pine shavings have been too fresh , therefore acidic, which would interfere with the nitrogen uptake in your pepper plants? That would definitely impact growth and leaf greeness.
Such a difference from last summer when you had super high record heat. Sorry you've lost so much. So many people have gotten contaminated soil this year... Genius about shaking your fence for pollinating!!
It’s wild how much the weather is fluctuating from year to year.
Blessings ~
I use pine shavings on my blueberries to make soil more acidic.. do peppers like acidic soil? I don’t grow peppers - or should say I’ve given up trying.
Hi there
One year I had incorporated pine wood shavings into the garden soil in order to retain some moisture and whole crop was killed in the matter of days. I believe pine is very acidic and can be very harmful for some plants. Even when used in composting pine will decompost the last.
Otherwise beautiful video as always.
Cheers from Toronto, Ontario
I appreciate you sharing your experience. I’ve done research into this and have found that pine shavings don’t effect soil PH in general. Here are a few links I found helpful.
www.walterreeves.com/landscaping/ph-pine-materials/
www.houzz.com/discussions/2090270/pine-shavings-mulch
There’s lot’s more information out there in this in you’re interested.😊
@@LittleMountainRanch thank you, than most likely I got them from the source where they were sprayed with something.
Not enough to make the soil acidic, even pine needles won't acidify the soil to a point where it's unhealthy PH. Its what's called sour chips, from chips fermenting in a piled zndxwasn't turned and has become vinegary-like. You can even smell the vinegar sourness. It's especially bad with chips from fresh cut green trees.
I got a load of horse barn clean out this spring and I am scared to death to put it on any of my garden. IA there any way to test it before I ruin a bed?
Hi Chelsea, so excited to see your whole garden. My growing conditions are similar to yours as I’m in North western Washington. What do you use to make sure your soil has enough nutrients? Is it just manure compost or do you also add fertilizers or others things? Good luck with everything as your harvest comes in. 💕
Hey, just manure compost in the main garden but I did fertilize with a Gaia Green 4-4-4 fertilizer and azomite in the high tunnel this year.
Those look like Japanese bottles. They have decorated my garden the last 2 years. They don't bother tomatoes and peppers but they destroyed everything else.
Where can you get your dawg tomatoes plants
I hope your doing a video on the cherries. They are so expensive this yr
Will do!
Thanks! 🙂
Not to give you a scare or anything, but if there is an unknown chemical in those woodshavings that has affected those plants, are you serious about consuming whatever they produce?
Even though they might be picking up in growth now, those chemicals will also be in the "fruit" it produces... :think:
I’ve been thinking a lot about this and will talk about it in my next video.
I've used pine shavings in my garden and never had a problem until this year. Some of our plants with shavings were stunted\yellow but others are doing great so I don't know what the deal is. The ones that were stunned and yellow are growing fine now still smaller than expected but green and growing now. I keep wondering if the shavings caused it except some of the plants weren't effected at all (tomotoes are fine which are notoriously finicky)
So strange!
How horrid, so happy that u figured it out, think how that poison is hurting animals that bed in it,
I’ve been thinking about that too.
Hoping those potatoes and tomatoes make up for the other losses and disappointments. I feel for you. Looks like Japanese Beatles. They're terribly destructive. I hope I'm wrong.
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Be a raindrop..
Sure looks like a hive beetle, we are having a terrible year with Japanese beetles
I’m pretty sure it’s a Japanese beetle, sadly.
Our garden us doing so poorly
I’m sorry to hear that. Next year will be better!
@@LittleMountainRanch I dream of having gardens like yours
HANG TOMATOES UPSIDE DOWN IN ROOT CELLAR WHEN FALL STARTS THE TOMATOES HANG UPSIDE DOWN ROOT BALL AND ALL THEY WILL RIPEN TIL DECEMBERS END
I’d love to do that but my root cellar is so stuffed by the time fall hits I wouldn’t be able to fit them.
So great to see some Canadian content! There is a good chance that the chlorosis on your pepper plants was from the woodchips but not because they were contaminated. Uncomposted woodchips are nitrogen robbers, so shouldn’t be used in the garden directly. Too much to explain the science here, but that’s probably why you saw pretty quick results when you removed them. Compost first then lay it down in the veggie beds 🥬
Thanks for the insight.