How to Make Deep Mulch for a No-Till, Ruth Stout (type) Garden 7-8-2020
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- How we made our deep mulch, no-till, Ruth Stout style garden. We used whatever kind of leaves that fall in the yard. We used wood chips from local tree services. We used all the grass we mowed and we used old hay we got from a neighbor.
We did not till any of it into the garden. We spread it out between 4 and 10 inches deep across the entire garden. The mix was not measured in any way. We added what we had when we had it to wherever was thin.
To this day we continue to add to the mulch in the garden.
The 4 foot compost pile has shrunk down since the second turning.
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I love Ruth Stout and have every book she wrote. Her ideas blew my mind and revolutionized my gardening life. I don't do much anymore work with my garden. Lazy gardening is my kinda food production. The little critters under the soil fascinate me.
Ruth started me on this journey and the 1st time I pulled a potato plant and all the potatoes came with it, clean and easy I was sold.
Thank you. I shreadded leaves last fall and dumped them into rows in the garden 2 days ago. Thanks to this video, I will add wood chips because they are much cheaper than straw bales, based on cost per square foot. I don't live close to any farms. But, I could probably get wood chips from tree trimmers, who have to pay to dump wood chips. I learned about leaf mulch from a friend who works at a cemetery, where they used it to re-seed new graves and get grass from seed within 2 weeks.
Thank you for sharing this and thank you for visiting my garden story. Please let me know how your garden does this year.
The more you explain the more I get excited to start the third garden thank you so much
You are so welcome! Thank you for visiting and your kind words. Please let me know how your garden does.
Wayland, so glad to find your channel. I also have come to this conclusion and do exactly what you do. It works in virgin forests; it will work for us if "we don't get in the way"! Been done for eons! Nice to meet you! Will be following your channel!
Hi and welcome. I just wish I would have known about this 40 years ago. It would have saved countless hours of back breaking work. I look forward to hearing about your successes in your garden and thank you for stopping by and visiting my garden.
@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant if I put down the mulch, how long would I need to wait to plant ?
@@clydeboone6179 I started with all leaves around Dec. and had potatoes planted the end of Feb. However, that 1st summer was a real learning curve with all the other veg. I did see some improvement the 1st summer but the soil was not much improved until the next spring after adding more mulch thru the 1st year. The 2nd spring was great. No one gave me a time line when I started but now that you asked I think I need to do an episode just on that. Thank you for the question and for visiting my garden.
I hope this helps.
This is my second year, no till deep leaf, straw and wood chips mulch deep.
Getting same results!
Thank you for letting me know that. Going into my 3rd year. Are you aware of my Saturday videos? I do a review and then highlight gardens from viewers submissions. If you are interested in having you deep mulch garden highlighted feel free to send me a few photos. waylandsmalley5@gmail.com. Either way, thank you for visiting my garden.
I spent a lot of time in the woods as a kid and as an adult.
I always admired the rich dark soil found in the forest.
It’s just what your saying…. tree branches fall and decompose, plants die and decompose …..etc….. results in deep rich black gold 😊👍
Good job!
Nature can be the best teacher. Thank you for stopping by for a visit.
I absolutely adore your channel! You are a wealth of good information! I've been doing Ruth Stout method for a few years and it works so wonderfully i can't imagine why anyone would do it any other way!
Wonderful! Thank you for visiting my garden.
We are so thrilled to find your channel!! We have been trying to decide a method for the past 2yrs. Lol. You've given us hope. New sub from East, Texas Piney Woods 🥰🌱🙌💃🏻
Welcome!! Did the storm effect you in the Piney Woods. Please let me know how your garden does this year.
@Wayland Smalley Thank you!! We are good. Not affected. I will share post on RUclips of the garden too and will be happy to let you know. Can't wait for spring🙌💃🏻🌱
I am so glad your video came up while on You Tube! We have had such a problem with weeds so we will definitely be trying your mulching system this fall. I want to eliminate weeding, improve the soil, and reduce the amount of sprinkling needed. Thank you so much for sharing your experience in gardening! There is nothing like fresh produce! From a new subscriber in Michigan.
Wow, thanks. Welcome to my deep mulch garden story. Your comment means the world to me and I thank you for stopping in for a visit.
This is how I've been gardening. Great results!
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing and for visiting my garden story.
Blows me away still that this superb presentation is free, though it is priceless. Subscribed!
Thank you for subscribing. Please let me know how your garden does this year.
Thank you sir. I use huge amounts of mahogany wood chips and it's leaves here in the Philippines. Coconut and other tree wood chips attracts termites here and they will also eat seeds. So we have to plant seedlings and that solves the probem and they are not attracted to the mahogany chips. THANK YOU SIR!
I have been using your suggestions over the past year and my gardens are growing better than ALL PREVIOUS YEARS.
Shut out to the Philippines. I am so happy to hear your garden is doing well. Thank you for visiting my deep mulch garden story.
THANK YOU!! You have helped me so much!! Your explanation is clear and easy to follow!!!
You are very kind. I hope my story and experiences are helpful. Thank you for visiting my garden.
I live in the tropics where the normal seasons have no hold. All the nutrients leach out in a short time. You end up with a volcanic desert like the amazonian slash and burn. I have a half acre of a forest of ohia and eucyylyptus
I had always heard eucylyptus arent beneficial to other plant life. But the worms love it! Now i dont have to buy promix at 65$ a bale... and my worms are 6 inches long and over quarter inch thick. I might sell them as a side hustle. The eucy's are so messy i have free and sustainable soil in the desert. The garden needs so much less water too.
Hi. New subscriber here. I have recently discovered Ruth Stouts books, which have been invaluable. I had an accident 18 months ago which kept me from gardening for over a year. Looking at it just depressed me, there was so much to do I didn't know where to start. Enter the mulching method. It's taken me about two months of joyful gardening to get it all back under control and ready for spring planting.
Ruth is great. Glad you are back at it and wishing you well. Please keep me updated on your progress. Thank you for the sub and for visiting my garden.
I love this guy! Reminded me of the surfer dude in forgetting Sarah Marshall..
Stand up, but dont stand up.. dont do anything, forget your instincts. the less you do the more you do.. if you know you know lol
Thanks for the tips!
Wow, thanks
Wow great idea! I have so much grass that I can't seem to get rid of. I'm going to try to out. Thank you.
Pile it at least 4 to 5 inches thick and let the life in the soil do it's work for you. It is really that easy and I have been amazed at how well everything does. With the added benifits of less watering and almost no weeds.
Your garden looks great! Keep on doing the vids! Simple but yet very useful!
Thank you very much, I will try to live up to your kind words.
Awesome adventure. Excellent teaching material. Fun following you.
Awesome, thank you!
Good one.
Thank you, stay tuned for the cutting of the cross pollinated squash.
I plan on covering my garden in the fall with grass, leaves and arborist wood chips. I have a very heavy clay soil.
Mine is heavy clay also. The one thing I still can't get over is how deep I put it and how fast the worms eat it down to soil, even the wood chips go pretty fast. Thanks for watching and keep me posted on how it works out for you.
Here’s the recipe: 25% green compost plus 75% brown compost plus water plus heat plus time equal some great garden soil.
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Terbaik berbakti.dengan bumi.bersahabat dengan alam.bagus hasilnya.
Terima kasih banyak atas kata-kata baik Anda.
Good work 👍👍
Thank you, your comments are very motivating.
I enjoyed the video, appreciated the information.
Thank you so much for the kind words and for stopping in for a visit.
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Excellent video Tks
Thanks for stopping by my garden for a visit and the kind words.
Very helpful, thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you for your wonderful content! Yikes, I just put down grass hay that is from neighbors last years cutting. Will it sprout? If so, what can I do? Thank you!
Seeds in hay mulch do germinate a little bit but it is in the mulch not soil so it pops out easy and becomes part of the mulch. I go into that a lot in my mulch episodes. Thank you for visiting.
Good morning, Wayland
I just watched "How to Make Deep Mulch for a No-Till, Ruth Stout (type) Garden 7-8-2020" a week after tilling in the leaves off my yard into my small garden. Is there a way to fix what i did? I planted 2 small plots this season and it didn't go well my tomatoes had rot spots and all the rats didn't eat of my sweet potatoes came to be less than 1 lb do you have any suggestions? i learned a lot from your two videos.
Thanks Michael
I used your question in today's episode. I hope it is helpful and thank you for stopping by for a visit. ruclips.net/video/40YdiZhP59s/видео.html
It's definitely still summer when the trees are screaming with cicadas.
You got that right and after awhile you don't even hear them unless someone points them out. Thanks for visiting my garden.
Such a great idea explanation, thank you so much! I just ordered a delivery of free leaves from our city. Would you mix straw in too? Or layer the straw on top of the leaves?
Also would you weed the area prior to applying? Or just right on top of the weeds?
When putting it in it is sort of layered. I do alternate loads a bit. After sitting a couple months over winter I use my fork and clear row to the soil to plant and that really is where the mixing happens.
@@bonniebanjo7 This is just at the start of me filming the garden but is a good example of how I make rows and how it mixes... ruclips.net/video/p8jHkY2u9Bs/видео.html
Should I be concerned about pest eggs in the leaves that will infest my garden in the spring?
Well, I found with the deep mulch there are enough good bugs, spiders and ants to eat most of the eggs that come in with raked leaves. It is a balancing act for sure.
Love your channel! What's the best way you've found to crush your leaves?
It mean a lot to me that you took the time to visit my garden and I hope some of my story is helpful. Thank you again.
Hi there! I found your channel a month or so ago and I want to do that too 😉 I have a garden established but my soil is dirt! I compost and supplement with cow manure but it doesn't make a huge difference. Like you I did a little research and love the idea of no till. I was digging beds in the spring. To get started for next spring, I added an inch of compost and leaves about a foot deep. I'm hoping to have substantial improvements in the spring. Do you think that's realistic expectations or will it take a few years? My only mulch is leaves. Thank you for the great ideas! I like how you put plants in any where it strikes you! I have "raised" beds right now (no boxes, just higher ground) but I may try filling in the paths with deep mulch. Thanks for any advice you can offer! Should I sign this
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Thank you so much for visiting. I never thought I would not have enough time to answer all the comments. I do read them all and truely appericiate your time. I do use similar topics for future episodes. I hope you will take a few minutes to visit my long form episodes that may answer a lot of questions. Thank you.
Are volunteer peppers/tomatoes possible in this type of garden since they are landing on top of the woodchips and not the soil?
Peppers not so much. The tomatoes seem to make their way to soil and we get several volunteers every year. This last summer I harvested almost 50 pounds from 4 volunteers.
@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant Good to hear Wayland! Appreciate the response.
Hi! Do you add extra fertilizer like compost throughout the year? Or is the decomposing mulch good enough?
Only mulch on top, 4 inches thick or thicker is what we are doing. Thank you for visiting my garden.
I have raised garden beds and an in ground that we started this spring. Will thick mulch work in raised beds too? If I put mulch down in my new garden area, which has poor sandy soil, will it be better next year? Can I use straw? I know it has no nutrients so I was wondering. Thank you!
Yes, yes and yes. Mulch works wonders in each of those areas. Only put it on top. The mulch acts as insulating and food for the critters that build the life in the soil that works with the plants. I have an entire series on living soil. ruclips.net/video/0utIz_318Cw/видео.html Thank you for visiting my deep mulch garden story.
Did you plant things the same year you put down your layer of leaves? What did that process look like? Did you just leave a little opening for your plants? I'm looking to no-till entirely this year after good results last year. I have a ton of leaves. Thanks for the vid!
Started laying in leaves in Oct and finished in Dec of the 1st year. Come spring I didn't know what I was doing and the 1st plants I tried to plant in the leaves but it was obvious there was no structure so I moved them a little and added potting soil and lost the 1st 10 or 12. Then I realized I needed to pull the mulch back to soil, plant like normal in the soil and mulch back around the plants. I go into great detail about it in the 3 years of my channel. I show exactly what I do and we follow everything. Thanks for stopping in to visit my deep mulch story.
@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant Thank you very much for the information, sir.
I know you don't want to put pesticides in the garden but my fix for stink bugs in a little dawn dishdergent in a spray bottle and spray under the leaf kills alot of stink bugs
I couldn't seem to get the concentration right and burned the leaves worse than the bug damage. How do you mix it?
@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant about a tea spoon to a quart of water I spray early the bugs won't lay their eggs also spray around the base of the stem those bugs are a garners enemy
I recently moved to East Texas and it is SAND not dirt, not soil...I have my work cut out for me!
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The question is, how does one direct seed?
Pull the mulch back to soil and plant like normal. As the plants grow I add mulch. Thanks for stopping by.
We have oak trees and pine trees in our yard. When we take, we get both leaves and needles. I’m assuming I shouldn’t put the needles in the garden because of the acidity. Is that correct?
I wish I had access to needles. When you just put it on top and do not till in it breaks down slowing and from what I understand does not effect the acidity levels. If you are concerned, mark off an area and use as a controle with a few plants. Please let me know how it works for you.
I know some of the wood chip mulch I get has some pine trees mixed in and have had no issues that I can tell, if that helps.
Do you have bermuda grass clippings? Do they start growing in that mulch?
Yes and sometimes but if they are dry I haven't found them to be an issue. Thank you for visiting my garden.
How often do you water your vegetables?
Depending on the rain, but not very much. The deep mulch and the micro life in the soil really does a great job retaining the water. I still use the old school method of sticking my finger in the soil if it has been really hot our for several days. I do make sure seeds and seedlings are moist until they get going. I can't get full Ruth Stout and not water at all. Thank you for stopping by my garden.
What do u do about mices
We have hawks and owls and snakes so they haven't been a problem. Thanks for visiting my garden.
What grass clippings do you use? I have Bermuda but I know it probably needs to cure before I put it it down. How long should I let it dry before using it?
I usually wait a couple days. Sometimes I add to the compost pile. Thank you for visiting.
Hay...grass seed source
Hasn't been an issue with piling it deep. Thank you very much for visiting my garden.