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Wood chips in a tarp. Wet the chips and cover. Each week open it and wet. After a year, you will have black gold full of worms n everything ready
why don't you start a new asparagus bed in the bed with the new saskatoons next to the pond?
I use a hoe and chop at the weeds but it requires going back a few times as they will sometimes regrow. Once the plants are big enough I don’t worry about the weeds so much and they they will give shade to the soil during the hotter summer days. Saves me having to mulch which is a problem in our windy area.
Lol...that is my task this morning...weeding my leek beds and then mulching with grass clippings! Then I have to harvest garlic scapes, cut lettuce, thin some onions and pick strawberries! I am going to give the knife idea a spin this morning, I keep several knives in my garden shed that will be suitable! Thanks Greg for another great tip! Cheers Mike
No disrespect.... this certainly works with whole pickles.... but I found this looking for a way to keep the fruit below the brine... so if you think sliced pickles... or in my case I'm looking for a way to keep packed peppers below the surface of the olive oil. No way to jam it in the bottle shoulder. This is a very good, one-purpose technique. Sadly, my search continues.
Hey Greg Oooohhh that make so much sense on why plants get leggy 👍😉 Thank u for all the info
I subscribed 👍
Nice!!!
Hey Greg Wow 😯thank you so much I grow in containers but with good compost and fertilizer reg etc Always heard “indoor” 🙄 I’m so excited to try this (also already took my grow lights to the shed. So I started some peppers coulple wks ago 🤞 Before seeing this video. Now I’m definitely going to do Tom and other stuff I’m in Mississippi. So we are already hot 👍 Thank you again
I could use SOME wood chips but not a big load like that! P.S. I have used your promo code GAVS24 with Vesey’s three times this spring: good products, quick response, fast delivery, and FREE shipping. I’m impressed.
I had 30 yards of wood chips dropped off one time by a local tree company. If you grab them while they are on a job they will come to your house after they're finished because it saves them the tipping fees to dispose of them. That 30 yards was a HUGE amount took me over a week, maybe two, to finally move them into place one wheelbarrow at a time. I'd do about 5-10 wheelbarrows full a day every day. It seemed like it would never end and was quite exhausting work. I now look for small trucks on jobsites.
I get my woodchips at the township building across the street for free. I have to shovel into my truck but it's easier getting them into a wheel barrel from my truck rather than shoveling. I did get a cheaper shredder last year but use it mostly for shredding plants and leaves for my compost pile. It greatly quickens the composting time using shredded material so I'm happy with it.
When one wants to care for a forest garden, though, a chipper comes in handy.
There must be more of a demand for them where we are, because the tree company we deal with charges $50 a load for the chips. It's not a dump truck load, but their custom pick up that also dumps. When they use their industrial chipper, it empties straight into that truck. We do have a wood chipper, but it only fits straight branches up to 3 inches wide. It does have a shredder chute, too, for anything up to 1/2 inch. It sheds things much finer than the commercial one, but has its limitations. We have been cleaning up dead trees and branches since moving here. After a few years of branch piles getting bigger and bigger, we fired the tree company to come out with their chipper. It took them 8 1/2 hours to chip four piles of branches. That was a couple of years ago, dumping the truckloads where I asked them to. I think it was about 6 truckloads. We still have some left, after a couple of years. The stuff that was too big to chip was cut into about 4' lengths and neatly stacked. Perfect for lining the bottom of raised beds!
in our area, if you happen to have tree trimmers working in the area, you sign up and they can come and dump huge amts of wood chips on your property....this year we also got some wood logs for firewood....all for nothing...husband has been busy putting the chips between our garden boxes to prevent weed growth....here's the thing ...ASK...many times you can get things you need by just asking...
It's the same here - free if they are in the area most of the time.
I live in Canada, they dont do chip drop here. At least not in my location.
I live in canada. It's a big place man :)
They charge you money to drop off wood chips most tree businesses struggle to find places to get rid of anyway? What the late stage capitalism kind of system is that???😂
There is a demand for wood chips. What makes you think they are struggling to get rid of it? Plus, it costs them time and fuel to deliver the wood chips. Hilarious that you leap to blaming capitalism. 😂😂
@@refarmer1574 I live next door to a tree business that participates in the free program called Chip Drop. They are desperate to get rid of wood chips anywhere and everywhere that will let them dump for free. My youngest brother also works for a tree service with the same problem. Garden Answer, here on KZread, gets free wood chips dropped off by their tree guy when they need them. I mean, I could make you a list of dozens of YT gardening channels who get free wood chips from services like Chip Drop. Don’t pay for wood chips from a tree service. You’re just buying someone else’s trash.
They want money because it costs them fuel and time to bring them to me.
$100.00 is too much. You are saving them from paying to dump this at the place they dump at. Here where I'm at you can get this dumped for free if you catch them chipping up stuff at a property.
They want money because it costs them fuel and time to bring them to me. Yes - it can be free if they are chipping near by - but if they aren't it costs them fuel and time to bring them. .
I get wood chips delivered for free, but I own a wood chipper too. Sometimes the hundreds of downed trees and branches just need to be chipped.
Some tree serves will give them to you for free, saves them some time and money taking them to a landfill
Did you pay for delivery because you are on the outskirts? I've never had to pay for a load. Our local companies have to pay to dispose chips in the greater Moncton area, so it can sometimes be more convenient for them to unload at a willing homeowners place. Making the arrangements is another story. I will say that you have to be completely at the mercy of the companies willingness to do that, so if you need them now, it's not typically something you plan for. The first year I contacted 4 or 5 companies and they all said they would get in touch if they could, etc. NEVER heard back! I guess there's the rub. What's in it for them? Lol Ended up getting them from a company in my neighbourhood that was doing a job down the road. I walked down the street and told them they could dump their load on my driveway, and they did! The more convenient it is for the company the more willing they are do help you out I guess. Timmy's and donuts might help entice the crew, lol!
Ah yes... Timmies....the Canadian lubricant! 😂 Yes that is usually a great enticement!
They had to drive 35 min to get to me. 2 guys in a big truck for over an hour. Price is fair.
@maritimegardening4887 $100 I more than fair. Hard to get wood chips in our area at all let alone just for $100! Cheers! Mike
it just arrives! weeds and all!
What weeds would be in it? These guys would have chipped directly into this truck from a limbing or tree felling job, probably earlier that day, and rather than drive it to the landfill, they drove it to his house. They're a tree care business first. The wood chips are just a side gig.
What weeds are in branches?
@@maritimegardening4887 not the branches. the mulch. seeds love a pile of mulch
@@samurphy you said "would have". Assumptions lol
Good morning!! Thank you for your valuable information!!! Your example is such an encouragement and inspiration to keep gardening even when I am now a new widowed senior! The garden is one of the best places to be!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊Thank you once again!!!!😊😊😊
You are so welcome!
So you pay them to take their waste product that they would otherwise have to pay to dispose of? I mean, if they gave you just the chips with no stumps I could understand, but this service should be free.
Seems like both parties were happy with this arrangement.
They had to drive 35 min to get to me. 2 guys in a big truck for over an hour. Price is fair.
Since you have sand down in your garden what will you use the chips for?
We also got a truck load of wood chips for our garden, no charge. The driver dumped them on her way home. Different company though. Nice stuff!
one their way it's free - on demand you pay.
Ya the other day I called someone for a load, hope they come soon. You stuff looks great not loaded with twigs like my last load but then you paid for this.
Im across the gulf from you in Maine. I just scored a load after a neighbor had some trees cut. Cost me nothing!
Good stuff!
Thanks, Greg! I wish they came to Cape Breton !
just ask sometime you go by a crew working , maybe they will drop it off for free.
@@michaelboom7704 Thanks! Good idea.
Get to know your local aborest for free, there’s not much for $100
Tried that. To no avail. No alternative in this neck of the woods😊
Great idea.
Great service. Hard to find in the Fredericton, NB area
Same in Cumberland County NS. I signed up for Chip Drop last year and it resulted in nothing. I bought myself a chipper this spring and I'm quite happy that I did so. I own 11 acres, so between what comes down in storms and what I clear myself, there are too many small limbs for me to burn in a season. Now I just turn it into mulch!
You have to call around sometimes and be a little tenacious. I've been using these guys for years so we have a relationship
I planted my carrots beets and swisschard May 8th. Nothing is up. Should I replant?
Hard to say. Maybe replant half of them - and wait and see with the others. You never know - there's lots of reasons for slow germination
… And we just called them cabbage, butterflies, and they are horrible pests!
What zone are you in? What was the total time from planting to harvest? And did you plant plants or seeds?
Direct-seeded. Nova scotia canada 6a
I got a gardening knife a couple years ago for christmas i really like it. Its rather large though and weighs like 2 lbs (the hilt is really heavy and the blade. But it works well.
Hey Greg...was just admiring yr toaster because we need a new one. Is that a corner unit? May I make a suggestion 2 you and 4 others that may read this. It is wise to always keep yr toaster or any other small appliances that have heating units in them due 2 manufactures issues . As in catching on fire. The fire chiefs suggest this all the time and when my sister cld have had her hs burnt down due 2 her toaster which caught her kitchen cabinets on fire and surrounding wall. Fortunately their dog woke them up because she didn't hear her smoke alarm . Anyway..I have reminded many family members to make that a habit to pull their plugs after use with pictures of my sister's toaster and the partly burnt kitchen. Go now and unplugged yr toaster....I'll b watching in yr next kitchen video. 😁🍞
I gardened for over fifty years before I got my hands on a hori hori knife. Now I don’t even go off my porch without it. I’m pretty sure if you tried one, you’d feel the same. I use the stainless steel one made by AM Leonard. I chose that one for a number of reasons but the highly visible orange handle was a big one. It’s so much more than a knife.
I had one - but I found it's too big to be practical for most situations where I need a knife
What a great idea!! I found a knife in a bail of hay ( also a snow shovel blade)
Yum, yum, yum. My rhubarb is still small, just put it in last yr. But I can get some from my folks! Going 2 bake this and use real local whipping cream on top!
Hope you enjoy
I found that a serrated steak knife works well for this. The serrations keep a cutting edge longer despite scraping rocks and dirt. I did this too for a while until I upgraded to a greens knife, more ergonomic.
My grandma did this my whole growing up. She always had a couple of knives in her yard apron and she would pluck up sand spurs and garden weeds or even edge a driveway with her old hickory!
A crust on bottom. Love it! My rhubarb which I gave compost and a good layer of mulch this winter is looking really good! Can't wait to try this. Thanks
Good stuff!
I’m jealous of your peas! Mine just don’t want to germinate. Old seed?
I guess average viability of peas is about 3 yrs: yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/article/1999/4-2-1999/veggielife.html So it's either that or they got infected and died
I hope your back heals up. Everything is hard when your back hurts.
You bet!
Great idea! I'll try this next time I am weeding. Thanks!
I use a long bread knife. Works really good.
i love my hori hori for weeding usually. Doesn't cutting dandelions just cause them to regrow more heads?
I thing pulling off the buds will have that effect. Cutting the root beneath the crown probably will not kill it - but it shouldn't encourage multiple heads. Also - remember - I'm planting potatoes there and that whole area will have 6" of leaf mulch. The dandelions will not be able to push up through that - so they will die
I love your simple low tech solutions. I have a long (maybe 12 inches) pokey weeder. It was left by the previous owners when we bought our first house more than 30 years ago and it was old then. It's great for getting at the roots of grasses and dandelions.
Great option without going out to buy some expensive tool for just weeding.I like being close to the plants so I can see myself using this.
How do those leaves not blow away? Whenever I've tried using leaves as mulch, they quickly blow away..
the box holds them in place somewhat. Some leaves blow away more readily than others. You can put tree boughs on them to hold them in place. We have heavy winds here - they work