vue - Sawdust in the Garden - Not a Good Idea
To conserve moisture on last years garden, I spread sawdust around some pepper plants. It worked well as I had plenty of peppers up until frost. To get ready for this years gardens, I tilled the sawdust into the soil. Was that a good idea? Absolutely not ! I'll show why and also tell you how to correct the problem. https://www.facebook.com/mhp.gardener
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The BEST Gardening book i've read so far is "THE ONE STRAW REVOLUTION"
a whole new/ and old easy, NO-TILL, no added fertilizer or chemical style of gardening!
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Woodchips and saw dust should not be mixed in soil, they deplete nitrogen; use only as mulch, when it degrades naturally it releases nutrients. Also legumes need not fix nitrogen. First soil bacteria or rhizobium may not be established in your soil. You may need to inoculate legume seeds with rhizobium. People get excited when they hear of Nitrogen fixation, it is not so easy in practice, remember caveats too.
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Open soil isn't good for good soil biology . Wood chip will do a better job with a no till garden. tillage kills soil biology
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sir you have given me the answers to everything that I do wrong,.. all that woody mulch. Thanks.
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Make permanent planting beds. no till. compost in beds only & sawdust (wood chips) between in paths.
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It's all about a no till system.
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You can use sawdust and carbon in the soil....plant legumes to fix nitrogen then cut the legumes and leave it as a green manure/cover crop/mulch.....this will prepare the soil for the corn/other plants
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you did not understand the eden method. You did one thing you never do - till the woodchips in the soil. The woodchips are there to protect top soil where all microorganisms are. Wood chips do not have to be aged, they just protect top soil. When you plan you move woodchips aside put seeds in and cover back with woodchips. easy.
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Wood chips and sawdust are meant to stay on top of the soil and not mixed in. If left on top to naturally decompose it will add nitrogen to the soil.
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Wood chips will work but may take a year or two...
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Good stuff man. Thanks for the advice. Keep the videos rolling!
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If the sawdust is dry in the late summer, can you blow it off to the side with a blower to keep the weeds down around your crops for the next year?
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Wood chips are fine as long as they aren't tilled into the soil unless they are aged. I do the no till Ruth Stout method with wood chips, cardboard, leaves, straw and hay and the garden gets better and better every year. Watering less than 10 times a summer. My only fertilizer is rabbit pellets.
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I put wood chip and it causes bid damage
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Good to know ! My son has a saw mill and I've been wondering how I might use the saw dust ! NEVER put it on the garden .
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I also know some sawdust is kill dried before being sawed this only takes about one year.
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I would think most anyone should know whatever you put on soil needs to compost first.
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I use sawdust to mulch my spuds and it works great. After harvest I pull the sawdust back. before mulching with it again I spread a light dusting of urea on the bed to counteract any nitrogen loss as the sawdust takes nitrogen as it composts down . This is the second year using this method and the spuds have never looked better no wilting even plus 100F heat
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