Weed Walkways EASILY... no mow, no plastic, no chemicals!!!
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GROW THE WEEDS YOU WANT!! I pree seed my beds with thick layers or radish, arugula or even cheap chia seeds. let it establish and pluck out section and put purposeful plants then there's never weeds because you proceeded and when those bolts and go to seed it recedes itself eventually you never have weeds because the weeds that are growing or things you want
I did the same thing but with Shirley poppies. In the spring when there’s always too much to do, I have my beautiful weeds that I am reluctant to cut down. They be are in the pathways, beds, everywhere. Once I cut them down, I let them dry in the pathways and then I have “poppy hay”, which I use as mulch.
Great design idea!
I'm planning on doing this with amaranth! Unlimited chicken and human food 👌
I like the "learning not to worry about" statement of potential weed/grass growth. I can relate to that. T
Important stuff!
I like it! Great idea. Was looking for an option like this that didn't require a permanent landscaping choice
Great work. I love the one hand watering, one weeding style. Hey, just my experience with that netting from the round bale. I used them for groeing cucumbers up it but one day I found a hedgehog fully entangled in one. Luckily managed to free them after hours of cutting the eyes ofr the net. I don't use them anymore just shoving them in my plastic bricks.
Interesting, yikes. Definitely something to consider and be careful of. Thanks for sharing
Great video, and thanks again for introducing me to air prune beds. I’m building one now to be ready for propagating wild black cherry trees after the fall harvest. Looking forward to doing some native nursery work with this type of system very soon.
Very cool, great luck to you!
Just mowed around our airprune beds and raised beds yesterday. I do need a better solution beside mowing and weed-whacking for around beds (zone 1) and in the garden pathways (zone 2). But since our chickens have access to the airprune/raised bed area...I don't think hay is the answer. Probably. Alas. But I might change my mind... because that would be a keen way of enlarging that growing space, into the native soil.
thanks, as always, for the thoughtful content.
Wow thar airpruning box seemed DRY ! It’s geat to show the big weeds can be nursing and protecting the sprouting trees
It was really dry. We are coming into yet another drought year and this was the very first watering
I just started doing this in my garden with straw and wood chips. So much easier and faster than just pulling weeds by hand!
Glad this works for you!
Looking at your wire bed tops and mildly kicking myself ;) I keep overthinking and consequently over-engineering the tops for my air prune beds. Just the bottom frame to match the bed and let the wire hold its own shape above.
Yeah, it seems to work just fine so thats our design pathway now. Not saying its best but it is EASY!
Had to laugh you made this about minimal work with no tools while a tractor droned in the background! 😂
Heavy mulch is a great tool and glad you mentioned how it may not be one and done. Saw some questions on grass seed. Using a rake to disrupt beginning sprouts is simple quick and effective. Not to mention it all started with a full compliment of grass. Great video! Glad your trees are recovering 👍
I get the irony with the tractor, but that was involved in an entirely different project. We are farming this space on our neighbors land
Looks like a great opportunity to get winecaps involved, as well!
VERY good moment to add them, that was a lost chance for me on this one but we can revisit :)
Sean is watering. Juan is weeding. Awesome Team!
It is a lovely team!
Hi guy’s great way to stop those pesky weeds.👍🏻🤠💗🙏
I imagine you'd get a lot of mice calling all these rows of hay their new home? Depending on where you do something like this (say around a garden), might they be potentially quite destructive?
BTW, this channel is spectacular. Thank you for all the great content.
Great thing to bring up. There is a VERY active cat right here so we aren't concerned, but it's a valid thing to keep in mind for sure
@Disabled-Megatron owls and big snakes are my faves!
The problem with round bales is the weight of the bale. Its not easy to move.
We buy the core of a round bale every now and then from a local farmer. It is still really heavy to move.
For sure. These are pretty dry so they are manageable, but certainly square bales of hay are wonderful if thats what is available!
An Open Source Baler and Bale Chopper would be an amazing addition to the Lifetrac.
Imagine if you had one of those “sprayer” chippers, could get this done in *minutes!*
Granted if it works, it works, and time spent can be cheap compared to hardware depending on what you are doing!
Could be a neat invention
We did a very similar thing just yesterday. While we didn't have a bale, we first put down leaf mulch we collected last autumn, and then on top of that we put old dried out grass clippings. Fantastic for walking on barefoot. I do see a comment talking about mice, which was something I thought of while doing it. The cats will be happy, but I am mildly concerned about voles in the winter time eating the bark of the trees in this area as well. To remedy that, I think I am going to put wood chips around just the trees, and use the protectors. Time will tell. Great video, Sean. Thanks!
Its the plants that survived a hard freeze that tend to be the strongest genetics👍👍
One would hope!
$20 - $30 per vale here also......the surplus of hay in northern NY state is phenomenal
It's special and lucky and a good local resource for folks in our general area to know how to work with
@@edibleacres and it's a super plus to know several people up this way that have unsprayed hay........
I got some old hay for mulching this year, it works great and goes much further than expected! The main hunk has sat long enough i got ants in it, lol!
Interesting; thank you so much for sharing. Would you also consider this method around annual beds, given the likely slug habitat? Also, would you consider fresh meadow clippings? I have one or two areas of an orchard where we manage the ground as a meadow. Even after the trees are mulched we still have a lot of material left over, but no room to store it. I wonder if large green meadow clippings would be similarly effective in improving the ground while holding back pernicious weeds like nettles and buttercups in clay?
Sure! As long as they are thick/deep enough to close off the light. I don't think the age makes a difference.
Id appreciate it if you made a video about how you found hay that's free of graz-on persistent herbicide. Thanks!
We are lucky in our area (Finger Lakes region of NY state) that those kinds of sprays seem to be, at least as of now, not a common thing to find in hay production... I think you have to really ask whoever you may buy from...
@@edibleacres thank you very much! That's good, I'm glad it's not very common here. It's very mixed and random here in eastern Washington state
The “pile of stuff” method is neat!, especially with how it ties into low/no-till methods.
The main concern i have is sourcing the cover material, and if that “biomines” minerals from other areas long term.
All a question of scale i guess.
These are round bales that are left over from a harvest meant for animals in our area... It's a waste product but still has good value as a drier/dustier mulch
is this a new site? looks like a new space you're working
We just keep spreading out :)
This is up the slope of our neighbors land
Would you cut off the dead part on top of the seedlings that were frozen?
I bet you could, but I won't go through the extra effort as it doesn't seem necessary
Well done.
What do you use the flue liner in the background for?
The idea is that those are simple, potential raised beds that are small, but very vertical to possibly grow some root crops in
My lawn is comprised of Bermuda grass and field bindweed, and both have growth through years of 12-18in wood chips repeatedly. Can you offer a perspective for this situation?
That is tough and I'm not sure how best to advise.
Same here !
What types of grass do you work with
I have kikuyu and have found it exhausting to try and remove without chemicals
I'm not sure, I don't know my grasses very well
Do you have a runner grass? Because if I did this it would just end up growing through it which sucks.
There are various plants in this scenario we're working with. Runner grasses would still work with this approach but a much deeper initial layering would be critical and most likely more frequent re-covering.
Snobby, but basically it’d be good to call Pesticides “Hazardous Chemicals”. Making *chemicals* (the very thing we are made of) scary is how you get people up in arms about Dihydrogen monoxide…
(Not that I’m some lover of Agent Orange etc, but modern pesticides are a tool in a toolbox, and hazards can be managed, but again between no-till methods, cover crops, and saturated steam weeding I don’t see too much of a place for them)
I’m rambling but basically i just think that’s a thing to be cognizant about, do with that what you may.
Excited to see how all this turns out, all sorts of stuff happening, just have to wait for things to grow now!
Worthwhile distinction.
Modern pesticides and herbicides are quite hazardous , especially considering how long they can hang around. If one is trying to build healthy soil and a balanced ecosystem, a high insect load is wanted. One oopsie with sprayed hay can set back a garden for years.
And wondering are there seeds in that bale like you find in regular straw or hay bales? That’s a problem I’ve had in my mulched garden areas.
Walkways like his are more forgiving since they are grass. An occasional ruffling with a rake will dislodge sprouting grass.
@@CharlesGann1 Good point. Thank you. In my current circumstances this would also be the case so I’m inclined to try it
We can always add more mulch over weeds that pop up.
Get poultry netting and send in the chickens! Then once they've had their fill go ahead and roll out the bale
$25 for a round bale is more than what you usually pay? That is $55 minimum here.
😂 225 here!
@@devonolsen1331 that’s crazy
Sad th8ng is that is low end or buying directly from grower, typically I pay 280-300/bale here, this fall I'm hoping to have enough saved up to buy a truckload and get my cost/bale down significantly
@@devonolsen1331 are you in the desert?
Central Wyoming, just a couple inches of precip above official desert levels, long winters and hit dry summers makenit tough ti produce too much and drive up demand
It sure looks easier than hauling wood chips with the wheelbarrow!
Each have their pros and cons :)
NO PLASTIC/NO CHEMICALS I LIKE THAT / DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU
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WOW 😳 $25 for a Round Bale!!! we're paying $70 each to feed our goats!
To be fair this is a pretty dusty/janky bale. It is definitely a mulch hay bale
Finding hay that cheap is half the battle.
That "hay" is brown mulch not real hay or you would have grass growing from it. Real hay is green looking and rich...
Unless the person who's rolling it up lets it lay till it's baked to a crisp. If it gets rained on or other conflicts of schedule. It gets done that way here sometimes. Sad. Decreased quality.
It is mulch hay. Baled of quality and clean edible grass. It wasn't sold in time last year to serve that purpose and exposure to winter brought the quality down to a much lower price but still very useful for our purposes
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So jealous that you have a source of unsprayed hay. 😢
lol 10 minutes turned in about 3 minutes so it seems. Cheers every ne.
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