Stop Using Mulch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- Controversial opinion: mulch is NOT necessary in a vegetable garden. In fact, mulch can actually do more harm than good. Here are three reasons I don't use mulch in any of my raised-bed kitchen gardens.
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I had this problem last summer in my veg garden. I used mulch in my veg beds for the first (and last) time. Your channel is quite informative. Thank you!
Love how this lady takes on the gardening community. I really like how she utilizes garden space and the lush gardens she grows. I use mulch in my walk ways , but will use less because I think it also harbors lots insects. so I'll be composting more mulch , planting more cover crops and filling those empty spots with flowers.
I've learned more in the last hour of watching just 3 of your videos than i learned in my last 5 days of doing my research on gardening.
Thank you. That is the way my parents gardened. I totally agree with no mulch.
I'm trying to get into this more intensive style of planting because of limited growing space. Living mulch makes a lot of sense.
The only thing you need to keep in mind is to not incorporate the wood whips into your soil. That’s the only way wood chips will pull nitrogen from the soil. I have used wood chips for the past 10 years in pathways throughout my garden. I don’t think many experienced gardeners are actually covering their entire vegetable bed with wood chips as a mulch. Their benefits far outweigh any negatives.
If youre feeding your plants with any kind of added fertilizer the nitrogen pulled out by the wood is vastly out weighed by whats added in. The hugelkulture method proves the benefits of using wood in soil too.
I do not use woodchips in my garden as mulch. I use grass clippings and leaves that are mulched up with my lawnmower. The woodchips i use in my pathways of my raised beds. And i put it down very thick and cardboard first so no weeding.
I’ve used wool with a lot of success because it is a slow release fertilizer.
I recently atarted to listen to the podcast. I like it because here in Houston we do not have much info on how to plant(my experience) you are one of my inspiration for this season! Thank you for sharing the knowledge that God gave you ma'am!
That made a lot of sense
I agree with you Nichole! I love mulch BUT the nitrogen struggle is real! (And costly.) Well said and greatly appreciate this. And now I understand that I DO need to harvest more often -especially the lettuce because it grows so crazy fast here! (Southern California.) Also I find the herbs do a Brett amazing job at deterring pests. Also adding more flowers to keep my pollinators happy. 🌸🌻🌼
Wonderful, thank you. I have removed the bark. It was looking nice 😂. Finally I had an answer
I think I resonate with your gardening skills. I believe you.
What if i have 4 6ftx10ft beds all connected on the longer sides and want a walkway down the center of each bed?
you've inspired me to fill in the fill in the bare spots.
Great information
Love this, thank you so much💛😊 May God bless you
hi i usually plant on my roof but my back garden is 35 ft x 12 ft. the problem is that i only gets sun in the summer months, so my question is what vegetables can i grow. summer and winter. thank you
You can still grow herbs and leafy greens when your garden isn't getting as much sun
I agree… I’ve been battling pests from mulch and I hate how it looks as well. Love your method 💯
I have a question that really isn’t about garden but a crape Myrtle tree if you can help. I get ants around the base do you know what to do to not have them?
Look into Tanglefoot or TangleGuard. It works.
Oh darn! I was planning to mulch with the cypress wood chips that have been breaking down for 4 years, but I will use them for garden paths instead.
...Here's a question: Would plants with long taproots be useful companions for bringing up nutrients from deep down? If so, I will plant some dandelion seeds along with herbs and such that benefit from the shelter of larger plants. Thank you for opening my eyes! It seems so obvious now.
Sure, and those taproots are great for breaking up your soil! We mostly focus on planting a variety of plants in every bed
What do you think about clean hay?? It is very hot here in NC during the summer.
I'd plant a cover crop that likes high temperatures instead
Cover crop in your tomato bed….
Does this no mulch method work in the regular in the ground garden? Not a raised bed..
I really like the method of intensive planting and it makes perfect sense, but I grow in containers; can intensive planting be done in containers?
Definitely, ideally the larger the container, the better
Someone I've seen suggested planting carrots along with tomatoes or carrots along with peppers to save space. You can plant lettuce, spinach or herbs along with larger plants as well.
What about dead leaves? My house is surrounded by large oak trees that drop a lot of leaves in the fall, and I've been vacuuming them and using them as mulch.
I put leaves at the bottom of raised beds as filler. You can use them up top, but they'll hide a lot of pests.
Do you use wood chips in garden pathways? And what do you think about Hugo culture?
I believe hügelkultur has been practiced in Europe for 100’s of years. It works best in raised beds if you don’t want to dig trenches to bury the logs. I personally have logs buried in the stone planting bed in front of my house and the bulbs in it grow strong and healthy every year. If you have access to the sticks and logs, give it a try. Good luck!
@@scoobydoo5447 thank you!! and thanks for the correct spelling I wasn’t sure but knew people would know what I meant.
I think Paul Gautschi and his back to eden gardening techniques would highly disagree, as do I. Mulch is amazing for gardens. Obviously you need to plant in finished soil and not directly into mulch while that mulch breaks down.
In ground gardening, yes. But raised beds like this are managed differently, & this system works great for raised beds. Some people don't like the busyness of a full garden, but some people love this.
I guess this TH-camr has never visited a forest or a rainforest and seen all the mulch all over the ground in those places.
@@jenc8953actually she did just that and learned to plant placement from nature. Nature never drops four to six inches of mulch as people often do
What about when your plants are young? And it's hot out. Shouldn't you use compost or grass clippings?
I use compost
Hi gardenary I’m doing my first vegetable garden this year, however, my garden is not in raise beds, but is on the ground level. From what I’ve researched, they recommend wood mulch to protect from insects at crawl on the ground. Would you recommend wood mulch in my case? I know you said it can create a habitat for the bad guys, but does it ward them away if it’s on the ground level? I’m using Cedar chips Thank you.
I’m in the desert! Palm Springs area. I don’t like wood chips as they are in the way and gives me splinters! Maybe I’ll try straw.
Alfalfa hay would be better than straw.
We get 120 days in the summer and hard red clay ground. Mulch is the most amazing thing ever! Even the frogs tolerate it. Great ecosystem, plants are huge! Nitrogen myth is a myth.
I do two types of compost. 1) hot compost, for annuals…
2) twigs, logs, branches are long slow compost for trees and perennial plants.
What about using chopped up leaf mulch ?
That's good for the bottom of a bed and compost pile. I wouldn't put it on top of soil near edible plants
Thank you for this! Side note: so cool your Hubby is a Chemist!
I agree 1000% Prime real-estate is correct!!
It only pulls nitrogen from your plants if you bury it in the ground, otherwise it's just on the surface, and has little effect on what's going on underneath. Maybe the top 1/8th'' of soil. I don't use wood mulch in the garden anyways, but other faster decomposing things like grass clippings, leaf mold, hay, etc. are great.
I've tried using the calendar and I can't remember what went wrong... but I wasn't successful
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Much MUST be let alone to decompost for no less than a year to be able to use it around your garden.. There is nothing wrong if you use one that has not been sprayed with chemicals or from a tree that have sap that is harmful to plants. The KEY is to break down. I do not agree with your statement, many people had use it, including myself around the garden, however as per my own experience MUST decompost first before use it. Another point...the thick mulch must be left to decompost for 3 years without covering...let rain and sun hit it. so one must sift it to separate the thick parts and then use the small ones. One more important point here...nurseries AROUND the country uses wood chips -small bits to plant the plants that u buy...so lady your knowledge is very off....
Maybe you didn't hear her state very clearly that once it is composted down it's fine to use? Your comment is quite rude
I agree, this lady is off in a lot of ways. I like watching parkrose permaculture, I’m pretty sure she uses mulch everywhere and has fantastic gardens.
noticed that in several of her videos...more promotion to her book... i will check your recommendation...sadly in utube there are many, way to many wanna be gardeners that do not have a clue of what they are talking about...i have way too many years of experience in farming and gardening and i still learning... @@hannahfitch8977
@@hannahfitch8977 but she didn't say dont use mulch, she only said dont use uncomposted wood chips
Yes it’s not broken down enough for me
Haha I'm in HOUSTON!😂❤
For any new gardeners that come across this video, take the woman’s “advice” with a grain of salt. I personally only made it to 4:30 because she does talk out of her butt a little bit.
For everyone feeling overwhelmed, fear not! Gardening is not complicated at all. Humanity has been doing it since God created Adam and Eve and placed them in a garden. You can garden too!
Simply take a look at how nature itself gardens. Nature keeps the ground constantly covered - whether that be in mulch, crops, trees, or even weeds. The ground wants to be covered.
Nature does everything in its appropriate season. It heavily mulches in the fall by having plants lose their foliage and trees shed their leaves. That mulch sits on the ground to start decomposing over winter. In the spring, when the ground warms and the mulch layer is getting thin, seeds sprout and plants begin growing in order to maintain the covering on the ground. The plants then grow all summer and produce the foliage, herbs, flowers, fruits, or vegetables according to its kind. In the fall, it prepares itself for winter and again nature mulches the ground.
A lot of people live in cities and suburbs where there is little to no nature around them. That is why humans mulch gardens. Use whatever organic matter you have access to. If you are surrounded by lots of grass lawns, mulch with grass clippings. If you have abundant access to trees, use leaves. If you have access to straw, use straw. I personally have access to loads of free arborist woodchips and all my garden beds are mulched with woodchip. My crops grow like weeds.
If you are surrounded by nothing but concrete, get creative. Collect food scraps from restaurants and compost them and mulch with the compost. You don’t have to spend a whole lot of money; use whatever resources are available to you.
When she says 'don't use mulch' I think she is just referring to wood chips. Nothing wrong with using mulch.
@@mcoffeecation2153 the title is wrong then. It should be don't use wood chips as mulch.
@@danabella6540 I’m with you on that
I don’t put wood chips either 👌🏻
100% true
I agree. Mulch brings on the rolly pollies. We don’t use it in our gardens
really is that the best excuse you can give yourself??? Do not expect miracles right away from fresh mulch...need to let "cook" for no less than a year under the sun and the rain...no need to turn it in and out...just let do what muchs know to do...that is decompost. Rolly pollies have a job in the garden and many other critters...so do not dismiss mulch for the wrong reasons and a very very off advice from this lady....if u want success using mulch..do not use the one that is black or red or any other color those have chemicals...if you find fresh mulch can NOT use right away...wait two years...sift the pile first, separate the large chunks and use for the fireplace...the rest let it be...then we will talk.
@@lolitabonita08 or I could just not use mulch, lol
@@lolitabonita08 "excuse" LMFAO
It's THEIR garden! They can do whatever they want in it 😂
@@lepidlover0557 it IS MY OPINION!!!! u have a problem with that??? So sad, so sorry but i do not give a d....🤣😂😁😂🤣
@@lepidlover0557 excuse LMFAO...It is MY OPINON!!! do not like it...oh well soooo sad i do not give a hula hoooot
Lady , you are WRONG . As long as you don't incorporate wood chips INTO your
garden soil and just leave them on the surface , very little nitrogen is pulled from your soil.
Thank you for this post. She doesn't know a thing about gardening
I think she is a beginner gardener and just latches onto everything she hears and passes it on.
I can honestly only make it 4 minutes into the video. People that say wrong things with such confidence bugs the everloving you know what out of me.
Thats why you make agreements with the power companies and county government responsible for trimming around power lines in your *LOCAL* area. They usually send all that through a chipper, which mulches the trimmings. If they know they can dump the truckloads for free. They even pile it nicely usually. Native trimmings will make better "mulch" or eventually compost. Please look into no till gardening or regenerative farming. You'll find *NATIVE TREE TRIMMING MULCH* is highly sought after commodity. It slso has something to do with balancing carbon when using the trimmings in your compost. Let nature work with you and stop working against it.
I think 80 000 views with only 57 likes says it all…
It says 822 views what's your problem?!
Why are you trolling? 🤨
Apologies! Honest mistake… It says 80K right next to the comment section under the video, and that’s the number of Subscribers, not Views. My bad. My reasoning was that if 80K people saw this and only 57 clicked on Like, it confirmed it was a very unpopular opinion… (hence the « says it all »).
Almost 5k views and just over 100 likes says it all.. 😅
Im sure the YEARS of Gardening experience under her belt says more 😊
Hope that helps
The topic should be stop using 'wood' mulch. I use wheat straw or chop-n-drop plant leaves.
if the wood shavings or chunks get into the soil it steals nitrogen to decomp. Plants start going yellow. That was my experience. Not using that here either
Makes goodsense. I ama beginnerone lerson bousehold.
Lol…
I have to completely disagree with this TH-camr. Mulch has been used in gardens since ancient times. How do you explain forests and the Amazon rainforests? There is mulch all over the ground floor in those places and trees and plants are growing just fine. I’ve been using mulch for years in my garden with much success and have no pest issues either. Keep in mind when you intensive plant, your plants have less airflow which promotes fungal growth. Every TH-camr thinks they are an expert on everything. Then they go giving bad advice to the general public.
Here’s my advice, mimic nature when gardening because that is what works. Visit a forest/woods or visit a jungle so you can see Mother Nature in action. You will find tons of mulch there too in some shape or form.
I gave up after 2 seconds
Then you had no real intention of listening anyways and wanted to leave a snarky comment
Couldn’t listen to it.
Okay???? 😐
Quite long winded.
I didn't think so. Your comment is sure unnecessary though.
Always
It's a podcast.... 😐
It takes a certain type of person to take the time to post a rude comment like this.
It was educational. Teachers explain to their students. What she offers is valuable.
So repetitive. Everything is mentioned 10x. Love what you do though.
Makes total sense of me👍🧓