In this video, I show you what happens to woodchips when you use them as fill in the base of a raised garden bed.
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THANKS MARK AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
Great video as always!
Thanks Mark merry Christmas 🌲
By your knowledge and inspiration i have some of these beds with wood in the bottom and they are such a rich ecosystem for our favourite food plants.. and just a little sustainable health giving pastime. Thankyou 🌻🌻
Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄. Thank you for the brilliant content/tip's, it's always such a pleasure to watch.
How about using some electrical conduit as a spacer to control the movement?
Thanks Mark. Very educational. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
All good said and done . You say its great organic soil composition .. but have you done a soil test on it to confirm how good this is ?
probably not .. Just dont say stuff, untill you get it analyzed. Facts are everything
I love hearing the kookaburras in the background!
My neighbour owns a tree lopping business and he spread wood chip a foot deep over all his pastures with lime. Now they are covered with grass and looking great.
I get free woodchip off him also, which is nice.
Hi Mark. I'm surprised by the number of people who have come across the problem of the sides of Birdie's RGBs bowing in. My 2.5 x 1.2 metre beds were supplied with four braces rather than the six you have on yours so I didn't have to dig down to the base to remedy the problem. I used logs across the beds under the braces rather than have to remove & replace them as I would have to have done if using vertical timber supports with holes drilled in them. Anyway… Best wishes for yourself, Nina and the boys for Christmas and the New Year. Cheers, Shin
Awesome. Was great to see this. Merry Christmas eve to you too, and to all. From a fellow Qlder.
Lol omigoodness something set the kookaburras off! I love hearing them! 💕 Beautiful music to these North American ears.
Thanks!! Great video. Another reason for using woodchip rather than imported garden mix type soil, is with the latter you run the risk of pyralid weedkiller being present in the soil/compost. This happened to me in 5 garden beds and its taken 3 years for them to come right.
Have you had the carbon amount tested
Great video, thx. Maybe instead of wood braces, you could put star pickets?
I'm 54 and I and my wife earn $15,000 bi-weekly returns from our digital assets portfolio but we are VERY worried about our future because of the gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings up high with the cost of living into the stratosphere, we are finding it impossible to retire. We can get by, but cant seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for…
Merry Christmas to you and your family .
How did you find your nitrogen levels in the beds which has big logs and woodchip breaking down in the base? Cheers!
100% love your Videos Mark – Have a lovely break, and see you next year.
Merry Christmas my dear friend. I have learned so much from your experience in gardening. Thank you very much.
Merry Christmas, Mark and family 🦌🎄
Hi Mark
Am from Saudi Arabia
I want to ask u hiw to fix the mulch in windy days coz I have a problem with that
Happy Christmas, Mark and family.
Hi Mark, I just wanted to mention that one of your followers made a comment after your vid re composting shredded paper which I thought was a quite brilliant idea and that was that when you wanted to speed up the composting process that you "germinate" the new compost by adding some previously composted soil with all its growing bacteria as a kick start to the newer composting soil. Do you think this is a good idea? 🤔❤👍🌲🎄🎈🍒🍓🥝🫐🍅🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶🫑🥒🥬🧄🧅
Informative and enjoyable as always! Thanks mate!
Merry Christmas Master 💪 happy holidays with family and very thanks a lot!!!