Feeding our soil with wood chips - Ottawa Farm Fresh

[@BS.-.-]

Leaf mulch also does wonders to soil. I'm lucky enough that I live in an area that the local residents bag up there leaves every fall..then I go around collecting them for next years garden and compost. I also built my garden on a few foot deep layer of wood chips. Free chips are great.

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

That fine is going to set the family back some years. . . Hope they recover soon !

[@GRPermie]

I believe that you would only suffer nitrogen tie-up if you tilled the chips into the earth. Spreading them on the surface is essentially utilizing a mulch and suppressing weeds. If you planted into the chips and the good soil underneath, you might be surprised with the results.

[@ottawafarmfresh]

Absolutely! I attended some super inspiring workshop this winter and we've got 1/4 acres of experimental no-till trials planned for this summer using a combination of cover crops and wood chips to transition into a living-soils approach..... focusing on adapting the methods being developed in France to the realities of the Canadian climate. Have you heard of Maraichage Sol Vivant? www.youtube.com/@VerdeTerreProduction Hope fully you can find some what to translate.

[@rubiccube8953]

On my allotment I move the wood chip aside plant in the soil using a bulb planter to remove a plug of soil which I drop into a box . The plant I plant has a ball of soil the same size of the plug I removed. No wood chips mixed but they are pushed back to cover the soil. My plants grow with weed competition and insulation. Over time the worm population explodes feeding on the fungi and bacteria nematodes. The plants grow extremely vigorous.

[@jojopornebo188]

@@ottawafarmfresh Tha'ts what I saw in TH-cam too. But that could also be wishful thinking. Can a soil biologist pitch in to give the facts of no-till wood chip top cover?

[@miltkarr5109]

There is nitrogen tie up but it's limited to the top couple inches.

[@sgtrickards5683]

You're good as long as you don't till them in. I have 20 different fruit trees in my food forest and my soil is amazing. Finer chips are better.

[@Amazighi-NJ]

Wood chips are the best source to make the soil soft and much more. Bible told us about the trees how it is made.
The trees have their only divinely established tasks to accomplish. God charges them with keeping humans alive (Gen. 1:29), giving them a place to live (Gen. 2:8), and providing food to sustain them (verse 16

[@brianpalmer967]

I've been thinking about doing this for several years now. I don't have a spreader, so it would be much harder for me to do this, but I may just do it by hand.
I've noticed that grass and weeds grow straight through the woodchips, and you hardly see a difference in production, despite the nitrogen tie-up.

[@moonedward63]

It's 7am and I'm watching a tractor....this is great.

[@leemobai762]

The little one is so cute

[@Emkato]

Sorry to hear you got that huge fine, hope your family recovers financially

[@triciaclem4314]

What beater set up (single, double, etc.) would you recommend for spreading wood chips?

[@lordflash4312]

Add chips to your chicken yard and let them scratch through it and mix in thier hot nitrogen and voila! Perfect combo of manure, leaf matter and chips that breaks down fast and feeds the land.

[@cindyhollings2079]

Omg, I want that machinery!😎

[@samoschwaldtilton9978]

What model of Kubota tractor is this? And how wide are the tires set, from center to center? I have been trying to find a tractor capable of a 72'' spacing tire center to center, and 60-80hp. Thank you, and awesome video!

[@denisdufresne5338]

Once you have spread the wood chips do you sow legume plants right away in the wood chips? Could you plant after the second year instead of the third one?

[@canadianfarmervision2955]

Do you use hardwood chips or is there pine or soft wood chips in the mix? I've always wondered about the acidity.

[@alph8654]

No problem if you do not till them in.

[@stuttgurth]

From my experience, its probably best to let the chips decompose for a year before spreading. I know they say it doesnt do much when just laid on top, but It certainl didnt help either.

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

3 to 4 y years

[@robertsgirl9205]

Mix cow Doo Doo with water spray on top of the wood chips will work helps break it down better

[@mikeross4]

I have added fresh woodchips like these to beds on my allotment in England and my experience is that crops grow well if the woodchips are moved slightly away from the plants.

[@pd8559]

Woodchips are for orchards. For vegetables you need composted and screen fine woodchips top dressed with an inch and a half of composted screened chicken manure. Both go on top of the ground.

[@benabela1581]

You are adding organic matter but it will go through more nitrogen. Better be planting clover.

[@xuyahfish]

That reminds me of a hippo & the way they spray their poo everywhere! 💩

[@ottawafarmfresh]

😂😂😂

[@saave47]

thanks

[@peterstevens6555]

Kia Ora & Good Afternoon from Caribbean Drive, Unsworth Heights, North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand …Great Video Bro …

[@AdaZte]

😂😂😂😂
Thanks for your efforts

[@ottawafarmfresh]

My pleasure!!

[@peterstevens6555]

Bro ...did ya pay the fine then?

[@cemalyilmaz377]

[@brucedick1506]

unlock the break please.

[@jojopornebo188]

3 years to decompose when you can get the wood chips de-composted separately for 6 months with using a static air pile and manure addition. Then you can get 2 1/2 years of active production in your land.

[@wyosundancer]

I live on hard clay. I did something similar by using the wood chips to cover mulch fruit trees. For a year or two it does hinder the tree. When the wood chips start to break down the trees really took off. I like the idea of using a nitrogen fixing cover crop for the start. But you do have to have the area to put out of production. It took about 5-7 years for the wood chips to completely break down, at which time the clay starts getting heavy again.

[@jojopornebo188]

@@wyosundancer "When the wood chips start to break down " and during that time wood chips has not broken down yet then it is taking the nitrogen from the soil. Why not get the wood chips composted separately then apply when ready? Doing it separately will give you the advantage of setting up a high speed composter by bulking the wood chips together and aerating it.