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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:15 What to Fill a Deep Raised Bed With?
00:34 Native Soil?
01:01 Rotting Logs?
01:33 Issues With Rotting Logs
02:03 Big Rocks?
02:20 A Free, Biodegradeable, Natural Material
02:42 Wood Chips?
03:03 Will Wood Chips Sink and Compost?
03:22 The Clever Solution
04:20 How Deep of Soil to Plants Need?
04:46 Results from a Year of Growing
05:24 A Tall Raised Bed You Don’t Have to Fill
06:23 1 Year Later, How Much Sinkage?
07:31 Buried Wood Chips After 1 Year
08:21 Wood Chips Are NOT a Growing Medium
08:46 Which Wood Chips are Best?
09:47 The Final Result, Soil Companies Will Hate Me for This!
10:26 Outro
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:15 What to Fill a Deep Raised Bed With?
00:34 Native Soil?
01:01 Rotting Logs?
01:33 Issues With Rotting Logs
02:03 Big Rocks?
02:20 A Free, Biodegradeable, Natural Material
02:42 Wood Chips?
03:03 Will Wood Chips Sink and Compost?
03:22 The Clever Solution
04:20 How Deep of Soil to Plants Need?
04:46 Results from a Year of Growing
05:24 A Tall Raised Bed You Don’t Have to Fill
06:23 1 Year Later, How Much Sinkage?
07:31 Buried Wood Chips After 1 Year
08:21 Wood Chips Are NOT a Growing Medium
08:46 Which Wood Chips are Best?
09:47 The Final Result, Soil Companies Will Hate Me for This!
10:26 Outro
Thanks for the kind words and support 😁🐕❤
I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with termites because of using wood chips.
Thanks James ❤❤❤for Tuck.
If you need logs and/or woodchips and live in town, chat with an arborist. Your neighbors have tree and they get cut down/trimmed every so often.
When you hear the power saws running nearby, that’s your chance to get free material. It’s generally easier and cheaper for them to dump it in your driveway than it is to take it to the dump.
I’ve literally heard you say you don’t want to mix soil and mulch in a garden bed before, that’s why I did it myself and it’s worked wonders.
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We fill our beds the same way. Yes, it is still labor intensive since we have the move the woodchips from the front yard to the raised beds in the back yard, but the woodchips are FREE and it does fill the beds naturally.
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Tuck ❤😢
❤️❤️❤️❤️ We miss Tuck so much!! We lost our Abby dabb about the same time. Its so hard
James, I hope your heart is healing. Sweet little Tuck is still with you in your garden. Sending you love.
Is Pine bad for this?
What? No shredded leaves?
Time for Tuck sweatshirts?
I used straw. Is that ok?
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Great tip
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But you gotta buy the wood chips tho?
What about leaves? Do you use them?
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Thank you James .Tucks🩷
❤❤❤ for Tuck looking over us! Can't wait til Spring harvest!
Thanks James that was super.. gonna try it
❤❤ we miss you Tuck ❤❤
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Hello, my friend, James always amazing videos. Great ideas amazing information. Always a pleasure to watch and learn something new. Thank you for sharing with us. Have a great weekend. Enjoy your family and God bless everyone.🙏💕👍🌍
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My beds are not that large but I have been using woodchips and tree trimmings such as twigs and branches. So far so good! I also use woodchips in the bottom of my smaller containers also.
I always wondered why people do not use or buy raised bed containers like the one you developed and are selling. It seems like a waste to have 4 feet of soil when plants grown in less than 2 feet of soil.
AND…I do not understand the problem of logs rotten away and causing the soil to sink. Just add compost, use cut and drop gardening, or just buy more gardening soil as needed.
I also wonder if the soil can be used again and again. Maybe let a bed go fallow one year, plant with cover crops, cut and drop, add worms and use it for composting. Crop rotation. Supplies are going to be hard to come by so the more you can do on your own, the better.
So I work in the tree trimming/removal industry for about 7 years nw. I use these wood chips in my garden but one thing I don't recommend is touching these chips with your bear hands. The majority of the crews that do this work do not have quick restroom availability. The common practice is to climb into the chipper bed truck and use it in there no matter what type of business you gotta do. However, I guess it adds fertilizer to your chips.
Ahh… 1 minute in and I hear you on "just use native soil". NJ was almost, if not entirely, under a glacial lake called Lake Passaic thousands of years ago. Our soil is basically a giant lakebed, which is clay and sand. I'm near the foot of a mountain in north Jersey and I''ve got clay and round pebbles for "native soil". We also have a good deal of sandy soil, so that's probably why our Jersey tomatoes kick so much ass, it's their jam.