Just Bury Logs in your Raised Bed they said…
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If gardeners drill lots of holes in the wood before they bury them they'll rot faster and benefit the garden sooner! Cheers from Australia! 👍
What sort of timber would you use!.
And great for getting rid of prickly pear and a couple other 'hard to deal with' scrubs and plants.
Plus wooden wicking bed set-ups are the bees knees >> only successful beds for forgetful waterers like me.
@@janetfernie6127 If you have trees and brush that you want to get rid of, then use that! Some people even keep fast-growing woody plants around specifically just to chop it up and put it into or onto the ground. If you don't have anything on hand, then don't worry about it; don't go out of your way to try this. Logs aren't better than soil. Logs simply become soil. As James explains in this video, this is done to save money.
Logs Are better than just soil when you’re looking to hold onto your moisture in areas that don’t get a lot of natural rainfall…as was also shown.
@@jimj9040 no they are not! all wood is anti microbial.
Bought a house a couple of year’s ago and it had a huge pile of rotting firewood. I used it at the bottom of all my beds and it worked great!
if it was already rotting or rotted it wouldve been extremely easier for the break down to happen, in my experience i find that smaller sticks and branches in my raised beds works much better and faster then logs
why not just cut up the logs?@@n0m0ncreates
Same here!
All the sticks he put in are gone. so sticks are quicker to decompose. Appreciate this info for future beds. Thank you.
The important thing is it was already decomposing.
Using fresh cut logs means they take 7-12 years to decompose & ass nothing of worth for the first 4-5 years & actually use up nitrogen.
James, you may find this fascinating. The Australian Eucalyptus tree (big trees) that exist in gold-bearing regions have been found to contain microscopic gold particles in their leaves. I suppose what happens is the deep roots hit a gold vein and some of it is absorbed in solution. Very cool!
So, money (gold) can and does grow on trees, which contradicts the age old saying that 'money doesn't grow on trees' 😅😊
And Gold is a good healing agent - great for one’s health - and would be imparted into your produce via the compost/growing process 😊
@@brigidlaffey7343 That's a bunch of woo-woo. Gold is largely inert in biological systems. It is neither a healing agent, nor great for one's health. Luckily for morons, placebo is a hell of an effective drug.
That’s cool! Thanks for sharing.
@brigidlaffey7343 Can you share some peer reviewed scientific papers that show that gold is somehow good for health? Thanks.
That saying was always a myth, money is almost directly made from trees and plant fibers; if you know anything about plants you can grow and sell renewable products others don’t have access to. So actually money literally grows from trees we’re just too stupid to see the relationship.😅 it’s funny to me how many people build raised beds out of perfectly cut wood so it’s perfectly square but you’re garden then rots away at a cost, you can just cut logs and roll them into walls by stacking them up like Lincoln logs, costs nothing.
My best friend is a bee expert. When she began using hugelkultur, native bees began nesting in her yard for the first time in 20 years. Hugelkultur provides important habitat for our pollinating friends. Native bees nest in a radically different fashion than honeybees, wasps, and hornets. Thank you! I am always looking for a way to spread the word about this important information. Remember: no bees, no food.
This was something I discovered by accident this year. I bought a property that was abandoned and have been clearing brush for the past couple years and just piling it up in a few spots, this year at the peak of summer each of them were teaming with different bees.
@@adultpersonman4612 Yes, if everyone had even a small brush pile in their yard, the bee population would bee very happy!
While they is a catchy slogan its not true. Lots of self pollinating plants. I ❤ Bees!
@@MichaelRei99 75% of all flowering plants are pollinated by insects or animals. Should we amend the catchy slogan to reflect that fact?
No Carbon = No Life.
Bravo James! Best close-up demo of the results of a hugelkultur that I've ever seen! And I've watched MANY! The water! The mycelium! The root growth! I've never seen any of that before. Thank you! Hugs for Tuck.
This is the first I have come across someone demonstrating the results of this method. Very nice!
I've been doing something similar, plus making diy biochar added to the beds. I'm in the drought stricken west, and have cut my water use in half. At the height of the drought I didn't put in a garden, but had a few kale plants which I stopped watering in June. To my amazement they didn't die or even wilt during the hot summer temps. They didn't grow much over the summer, but took off when the fall rains came.
try putting raised beds under some kins of drought resistant tree for shade. Plants inside will thrive. I was taught this by a pro greenhouse owner that pointed my attention to 70% shading plastic webs the was using in Mediterranean summer so not to burn plants in jury august.
This is the best follow up for this method. It proves so much about what has been said about doing this and the benefits. I like the water battery description. Your 3 year inspection was very interesting. This is good to know. It makes one wonder about whether revamping a raised bed has a suggested schedual. While if you left it alone perhaps another year or two might reveal even more interesting details, this looks like proof positive to me that all the suggestions to do this are more than correct for all the reasons! Thank you!
I've done that technique for many of my deeper raised beds, some going on 5 years now. Without a doubt, they are THE best producing beds in my garden. The smaller stuff is all gone now and the larger logs have just about disappeared too.
does that mean you have to add new logs now?
@@bobs5596 I imagine that would be quite difficult to remove all that soil and bury new logs. I don't plan on doing that. Now that the beds have a solid foundation and good soils, I just amend them as necessary with additional compost and nutrients.
No need I think, as long as it is in contact with the soil it will decompose, eventually life will beary it down for you (worms and others)@@bobs5596
@@bobs5596no, just add layers of different organic mater in layers. Don’t stir the pot! Cardboard attracts worms. Layer all the Amazon boxes on your beds over winter.
Thanks for showing us this. It was nice to see the results rather than just hearing the suggestion to bury the logs.
epic gardening did this also. glad to know this method works. thanks so much for giving the tip on already rottening logs. I love show and tells like this.
i did the logs in my raised beds and put wood chips bottom my grow bags and it definitely helps retain moisture and saved money on filling the bags with all soil!
@James : thanks for showing us the buried logs♻️ !!!! I've always wanted to do that 😊!!!!
Buried old wood pieces, compost, sawdust into the raised beds did good and two years later I found the trees in others yards crept into my yard and broke through my raised beds seeking water. Dug them up redid landscaping materials on bottom and just put the soil back.
I had a prune tree that never gave fruit over 10 years time. Quite frustrating. Then I built two raised beds to the sides of is, so to have partial shade in summer (Mediterranean summer). The tree really enjoyed the treat and started producing wildly. Now speak about "stacking of functions" (Permaculture concept).
Goodness!!, Look at tuck, such a sweetie. James, you have the best channel ever. I bought an acre 6 years ago. Found your channel and your enthusiasm towards growing a food forest inspired me. Planted 11 fruit trees, have grapes also. This year I plant berries as they are my favorite. Garden is expanding ever year. Living in Canada the season is shorter, but after watching your channel. A garden challenge is a good challenge. Keep up the good videos. Best ever, thank you James
I have buried my share of logs over the years. Good to know it works! Thanks James!! You’re a legend!!!
I love this guy and his energy for growing food. He really inspires me. ❤
I filled up my raised beds with logs and sticks. Thank you for proving that it works for a healthy productive garden.
I installed a new bed last fall and did this on the bottom. Fingers crossed. In my other beds I put brown and green stuff in the bottom but probably more brown than green, and it worked out fine. Tons of worms.
We dug up our buried logs in our raised bed last spring. Despite our ongoing drought, the logs were like sponges filled with water. It was wonderful to see. I reused them when I moved the raised bed to it's new location.
I have done that as well, never waste a resource!
I have used this method for 3 yrs , using tropical debris & logs in Hawaii raised beds. Works so much better on water retention ; than old method of filling
containers with just soil. 🤙🏽🌺🌱🌳
Your key information is start with logs or wood chips that are already starting to decompose. My best experience is with free coarse wood chips from my utility company--I did not use them until a full year after delivery. It does not hurt to pierce bed soil with rebar to enhance aeration. If he's not already, Tuck would become a smooch-a-pooch under my guardianship!
Hi James! We already do this with our raised beds and it works very well ! We've had no problems at all. Thanks for sharing and your videos are terrific.
We love to see your fluffy pal wandering around and eating veges! Tuck is such a good boy !!! 😀 Keep up the good work!
Love your channel. 🙂 Blessings!
Viewing your video, which premiered an hour ago ... in Australia (11-00am) on Sunday morning.
Enjoying a tea/coffee break and watching your vid as we relax in the garden.
You're inspiring us to go back to work ! 🙂
I did this too years ago, but didn’t dig them up. The plants I grew were strong, soil seems healthier and if I create new beds I’d do it again! 😊
Doing this In Arizona also helped on watering. Because of the heat and water shortage I put them in containers without a hole in the bottom. The hole was on the side about an inch above the bottom. That way the logs have time to absorb the water. And the logs become sponges for the plants. That fall the strongest. Largest and whitest roots were the ones going into the logs
Love to see you and Tuck doing good❤
We dug up some Fir & Spruce trees to move them, at night. We noticed White Fungus that grew on the Roots, glowed luminously once it was dark outside.
Wow this is amazing!!! Never heard of this technique but I’m gonna do it!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank youfor sharing your idea with us. Your gardens are always so abundant and beautiful vegs & fruits~💚
First I ever heard of logs being used to retain water, especially rotted logs. Great info!
I tried that a few years ago n when I got my lazy butt out to investigate, I was very impressed, started a whole bunch of trenches with my pruned branches instead of burning them
Good morning James and Tuck.❤
My lush front garden is still enjoying the fertilization from the stumps and thick roots left after chopping down some unattractive, dying bushes after almost 20 years. This is a great idea for those who want to benefit from this natural soil assist.
We have a few acres of property so before putting up my raised gardens last year I went around and gathered as many dead/rotting logs as I could. Everything in my raised beds did amazing this season. This is a great method to save some money and enhance your raised beds. Also even when it got dry I hardly ever had to water any of it.
I've tried this method and it's been glorious!
Get some rest Tuck, you are the best Guardem Dog♥
You make gardening look so easy. You do have a green thumb.
@James Prigioni Hey! I just watched this video! I love this method with raised beds. I will definitely be doing this on our property this spring. Thank you for the shout out! I love your channel! I will continue to watch and learn from your videos. Thanks again for amazing content. I will continue to support your channel.
Something to think about for those trying this, If you grow mostly root crops make sure your bed is tall enough so that they can grow freely. I threw logs into my somewhat shallow bed to save on dirt but now can only grow above ground crops for the next few years. Which sounds fine for most but my favorite things to grow are garlic & potato's. Logs on one side stick on the other if you are new & are not sure what you want yet.
❤ He’s so sweet 🥰
A real learning experience here! Thanks! ❤️
I'm a first timer at creating hugelkulture beds, so far so good although six months or so on, the level of our soil has dropped roughly about 15cm/6inches due to over time it dropping and settling in all the nooks and crannies of the logs and branches we used. I did use a high pressure garden hose on the soil as I built the bed up in the hope to move it down as thoroughly as I could into every spare space. Our beds are roughly 1 metre x 2 metres and longer.
Very cool to see this! Thanks James
Always great ideas! Forever in my mind now...😊
Thank you so much for digging up your living soil, I’m about to change over to be raised beds from containers. I’ve been told the logs would deplete the Nitrogen, but your video helped me so much, I think Tuck is bummed the Summer treats are gone.
Just remember that he's got soil on top. What you don't want to do is till in things like woodchips into the soil up high - say 3-6 inches from the top because that's where the majority of the roots are going to be. Some plants have deeper roots but not all plants have that.
It's a form of hugelkulter and it's great. I do it myself because it costs money to buy the soil to fill beds up. I even do this with containers and buckets.
The nitrogen depletion is happening lower in that raised bed so it won't impact your planted materials. Remember that, with watering or rain, things like fertilizer (things with NPK) are also moving down. You're going to get depletion which is why, in your garden, you have to amend with things like fertilizer or compost or chop and drop or something like that to refill the nutrients in your container.
So long as you are not trying to decompose the wood in the root zone of your plants, there will be no problems.
I found the beds with logs are fine but the bed I filled with woodchips + a foot of soil have nitrogen issues. I'm guessing it's the surface area of the woodchips that cause the issue.
@@Estertje93 I used split logs in my raised beds. I had about 18 inches of soil. I grow things like tomatoes and those roots go down.
For my grow bags and assorted buckets, I use about 2-3 inches of woodchips at the bottom and then, soil to the top with a final mulch of shredded leaves.
I tried woodchip mulch but it was a mess to clear and then, amend the beds.
I'm not sure if others are doing this, but the wood that I put in my raised beds or the chips are not fresh.
1. I'm paranoid. So I have a quarantine zone. I give it about a year so that any pesticide/herbicide has a chance of decaying. In addition, I can monitor for unfriendlies and deal with them.
2. I prefer aged chips and logs that have experienced at least 6 months of decay.. I will throw coffee grounds and suspect lawn clippings or throw things watered down compost tea sorts of things onto those logs and chips without fail.
*suspect lawn clippings. the stuff that grows near the street where I can't adequately protect from town residue.. think of the stuff that cars transport via their wheels. For me, I'm paranoid. That's the danger zone.
Just a reminder.. get a soil test. Instead of guessing if it's a nitrogen issue, spend less than a hundred dollars and know what you need to do. It may be something entirely different... say bad compost that had something like grazon in it.
@@jenniferhunter4074thanks for the elaborate reply! Thankfully I haven't had issues with herbicides... I had 3 raised beds, 2 filled halfway with logs and 1 with fresh woodchip. Then 1 foot of soil and then a mulch of compost. The soil and compost were from the same source, that's why I suspect the woodchip to be the problem. For 2 seasons in a row I've had issues in that particular bed. I now amend with sheep's wool/manure pallets and it seems to work. I grew carrots in there now since they don't need so much nitrogen and that has been fine as well.
Interesting idea sir! For a dry garden that seems like the moisture in the logs might help the soil/plants above.
There are a ton of YT vids that are just over 10 minutes. There must be some incentive to do that. Hmm
All these veggie gardener vids never say what zone they’re in. My veggie garden is 10 ft from a lake in MN. I always check the RUclipsrs About page to see where they’re from so I can relate to the video or not. Most say United States or Canada. Thanks a lot. Pardon me, there is one popular (over 1M subs) that states he’s from Michigan. That helps!
With winter underway, time to record some videos on making some awesome wooden structures for the garden?
Just wanted to pop in and say I hope you and Tuck are doing well. I’m waiting impatiently 😅 for a new video from yall.
Same here, I always look forward to seeing these inspiring videos!
i did my raised garden ,60x4, when i took it apart, if the wood had any air pockets, the wood did not rot any, if i hade dirt all around, they roted, when you put the wood in the box , put durt in an dirt at same time, i waited till i put all the wood in before i put any dirt in,
❤❤🐕. I have logs in my garden bed. Thanks for this content.
That dog of your is adorable 😊
That’s why he’s the boss! 🐕😁❤️
Hmm… I have tons of branches and a downed tree on the sides of my yard. This could be a great way to use them!
Thanks James for this valuable information much appreciated 😊
Cool, hopefully this will help prevent people from wasting wood. My only concern is controlling which fungus and insects are in the wood. Wouldn't want a bunch of maggots and fungus potentially assaulting the roots
Great shot of the water those bits of old wood can retain - We dig out the walkways between beds and fill them in with sifted wood chips. The fines go on top of the bed, the coarse goes into the path/ditch (2-3 foot deep, depending on how many years, and how bad the topsoil was to start. Good soil goes on the beds, subsoil stays in the ditch.) .. and holds enough water to supply the plants and trees growing nearby all the way through the dry season without supplemental watering. Logs, or small branches like James used in his raised beds last a bit longer, but chips can be dug out of the walkways and added on top of their associated beds every other year. most of our beds are un framed except for the wood chips surrounding them, but we do have some that we made from concrete blocks, with hardware cloth at the bottom to keep gophers out. Both benefit from having this reservoir of water close at hand.
OK, geek moment here: You noticed the earthworm on the log there .. here is what is happening: The fungi spread their mycelium through the log, consuming cellulose and lignin. As the fungi complete their life cycle, some of that mycelium dies off .. and becomes food for the worms, that can eat their way along that old mycelium track like a miner following a vein of ore. As the worm passes, it leaves its waste: a nitrate source! The nitrates further aid the decomposition process, resulting in fantastic soil in just a few years. Most of dead wood that falls and lies on the soil surface does not decompose and become soil organic matter: just the part where the wood is touching the soil horizon. When these logs were buried, it kept them moist and protected from oxidation, allowing the microbiome to do its work converting them to OM.
Next spring 🌸 my friend I will be starting from scratch…. You make it look fun!!
I love that cute little ear of Tuck's just sticking straight up while he's napping!😁
And keeping an ear on the situation 😊
Nice video. Yeah I did this last year and my plants didn’t grow worth a darn. I think the issue was I used twigs up to 2” sticks - all fresh cut- filled the 24” deep bed about half full then layered on cardboard then soil. I think next year everything will do better
Oh wow! Yeah, I bet next season everything will be broke down amazing!! Great work!!
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God bless
James, you are the light of my garden's life. :) I am so grateful for your videos and your clear teachings. I am learning and pray that I will someday realize something near the success of your garden. My confidence is growing, thanks to you. Will go out into the woods and find some nice jiucy rotting wood for my raised beds. I love how you explain the way the wood waters plants. You are my garden hero!!! - And Tuck is a delight! Love you both!!!
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In my experience, logs and branches that are 5-8 inches in diameter are ideal, like the ones you see James burying in his raised bed. Any bigger than that you'll want to inspect them to make sure they don't have termites if those are common in your area.
It's not a problem if you source logs that have critters in them, because termites do their part to break down the wood and make good soil for your plants. If you're trying to re-create the natural environment of the forest floor, understand that many insects are a part of that ecosystem, and its fun to see what kinds of critters you find making their home in your garden.
Most logs you find are going to be great for stacking at the bottom of a raised bed. You may want to avoid black walnut, though, as it has natural chemicals that deter other plants from growing around it. Just beware so that you don't put logs that you know have termites within reach of buildings, it may not ever be a problem, but colonies can grow. You usually won't find them in the smaller logs, since they prefer a dry environment and those smaller logs tend to become water-logged quicker.
Just my opinion and experience, take it or leave it, use common sense, be your own gardener.
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the "water battery" concept, I've never thought about, absolutely amazing visual representation. Reading this shit in a book doesn't compare. Not very exciting but one of the most informative low key videos ever.
Doing a raised bed or a mound or a trench and putting logs and old rotting wood in it (obviously, no pressure treated) is the trifecta of gardening goodness: sequestering carbon, reducing the need for watering by holding water and enriching the soil. ❤
I left a longer comment about my raised beds regarding why not to use pressure treated wood. Can you explain why please? I've nine year old rotten wood I was going to use for this method. Thank you.
@@flamingdonut9456 it's poisonous
@@flamingdonut9456 "Before 2003, pressure-treated lumber was often treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA), a preservative containing some amount of poisonous arsenic.". Of course if you have a piece of lumber to bury in your raised bed today, it's possible it's that old. But if you're building the raised bed today, with new lumber, you can use pressure treated lumber for the bed construction.
The chemicals in treated wood will kill you. It is poisonous. Defeats the purpose of growing your own food if you include any kind of poison in the process.
@@tomtrask_YT ah, thank you. Very interesting. The original beds were constructed in 2014, so I assume it should be alright to use, then. Thanks again.
we did it with our in-ground garden too. When they dug our pool we had them dig out a garden bed. All our debris sticks, roots, straw, paper, cardboard, sod, dead leaves. We have heavy clay soil, and most people do it here. Take advantage any time a back hoe is nearby
Definitely going to do this in the next garden bed we make!
Thanks! This was super helpful!
I'm going to have to try this!
I cut down all the sycamores dominating a London garden I put them into several cubic metre habitat stacks but when it came to double digging the wide curving beds I had the bright idea to put them in the base of these new beds, that was in the 90s ,I've been doing it ever since, even in Lanzarote where it's all poor dry soils. I've had little opportunity to dig deep and see exactly what happened to properly evaluate like you did here, but it has always felt right,more sensible than dumping it,burning it or even stacking above ground if exotic sycamore, I prefer to convince a client they need a log bank or stumpery and buy in a load of big native logs in the UK ash,oak hornbeam,Birch etc in Lanzarote I got whole canary palm and tamarisks from local dumps,sad that people illegally uproot 300year old palms but I used them as path revetments on slopes,extremely heavy things but too beautiful to waste, look great with palm seedlings germinating all around them, the tamarisks,often dumped by the council on their endless road widening schemes are like willows in that when buried in long trenches most of it sprouts to form a beautiful fast hedge, despite a lot of it being mangled by the heavy machines used to dig up these roadside hedges generally speaking I always educate clients to keep all the bigger limbs and trunks cut down onsite as well as anything under 2cms in the traditional compost heap anything bigger use as a coarsely chopped mulch, or bury it in the beds or can they make a useful attractive dead hedge like a hazel or willow hurdle, a living tunnel,a structure for a rustic rose arch over a path or seat, a support for annual climbers or crops like beans,peas etc ,I've used brash to make cosy hedgehog hibernation areas with evergreen honeysuckle or ivy allowed to scramble, or like you put them in the lower half of raised beds, I think the trick is to use your imagination for any excuse to keep the dead stuff on site and stop seeing it as a waste problem but a valuable resource, 2 more suggestions for people with enough land a petrol chipper that takes up to 3 inch diameter branches is excellent for less scruffy mulches and composting the bigger woody stuff, this can be laid down 6 inches or more for cut and fill or edged with staked planks (I use hinges to join the ends and stop the dreaded drifting apart) this makes lovely springy woodland weedfree paths that can be topped up over the years or treat them as a horizontal composting system to be dug out on a rotation as and when a new lot of chipped wood is available, note: in many areas tree surgeons have to pay to dump their chipped wood and so will be happy to dump it where it will be quickly moved off the street.
One final thought,sorry ,2! There's a recommended method to create the ideal habitat for the greater and lesser stag beetle, the larvae spend years munching through dead wood half a metre above and below ground level and logs a minimum 8inch diameter .. this is particularly relevant to the inner and greater London area where these big beautiful but endangered stag beetles have their natural distribution...we Londoners can all help them . One last thing...columbo of the Saprocylics....there's the incredible art of ANDY GOLDSWORTHY who makes all sorts of permanent and ephemeral "land art". some of his works could be used as inspiration for using dead wood in our own gardens .. I especially want to have a shot at the branches arranged into a perfect circle you could walk through . Here's wishing happy days repurposing your cut wood , try keeping it in on or under your garden
Happy days !!!
Tuck is the BEST gardener!!!!
My Dude, I love you & your videos... Thank You
Now dont you start that. I just ordered a chain saw so i can clear up this yard. Now you tell me to bury them instead of.burning them. What i going to put in the fire pit, the big stuff?
Love your videos & showing us continually how to feed our families. Thank you. Sweet Tomato Vine Homestead on RUclips not sure if you've seen her channel she grows so much food in raised beds & containers such as yourself. The both of you are great I'm learning each time you post a video. Thanks.
Sponge, battery, buried treasure. Gonna remember that. Thank-you.
Does it matter on the kind of wood? I am currently building beds. I would love some input. I also have 3 acres of woods. Do I have the resources.
Yes. Many woods are toxic. Do your due diligence. Soft woods decompose quicker, hard woods slower. A mixture of the two could make for benefits more quickly and readily available, as well as providing longevity. But even if the water battery dries up, will be left w killer living soil.
Love seeing Tuck!!!
A friend of mine once mentioned that I shouldn't put Pine logs or boards into raised beds, something about the acidity of the tar, but maybe something else too (cant recall now,) but what is your take on that? I sometimes take construction side jobs and there's plenty of pine scraps that gets hauled away to a landfill, I have always thought that would be perfect to use for gardening instead...
You should build 2 new beds exactly the same except one has charcoal in the bottom and the other with sticks and logs and grow the same things in them to see what or if they perform differently. I'm thinking that the charcoal one will have more longevity but might struggle the first year or two.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤hearts for Tucker. Love the tree behind you. So vibrant and beautiful. That is a treasure chest of gold!! Just what the plants wanted. The back to eden concept seems to be the best one yet. So keep doing what God created and you will thrive in your crops.
Awesome! Question, does it matter what kind of wood it is? Does it have to be hardwood or can it be pine?
Yep doing this next year for sure!!
How do you avoid attracting termites to your property? This only seems viable far away from your home.
This is very interesting. However, I'm a little skeptical about doing it in my area, as I would worry about the bed being inundated with termites. Have termites been a problem for others using this method?
Zero termites here, think it has something to do with them being buried? I think termites need to be closer to surface...🤔
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I grow indoors in 5 gal buckets. What do you think about using this idea of decayed pieces of wood and leaf litter in the bottom of my indoor buckets? Maybe 6 inches of this loamy material in the bottom? I'd have to be careful with watering, I wouldn't want this layer to be over saturated with water. Give Tuck an extra radish for me. Thanks James
Do you ever have concerns about whether the logs might have been chemically fertilized before rotting and going into your beds? I have a lot of rotting firewood, mostly oak, that I’d like to use although I do t know the history.
Love Tuck❤
I've recently taken over an allotment with rotten raised beds and will be replacing them this week. Was going to put the rotten wood at the bottom and then back fill. I saw a comment saying not to use pressure treated wood. Can you explain why please? Great video as always, cheers mate.👍
Pressure treated wood is full of nasty chemicals you don't want going into your food. Pressure treated wood is treated with chemicals that prevent the wood from breaking down, so that defeats the purpose of putting it in there as well
Wish I could show you my front yard. After we cut an invasive Sumac tree last year, the log sized roots covered in wood chips are now fully colonized by fungus. I knew something interesting was happening, because the stump had attracted so many ants, then it smelled funky for a few months. Now the soil is a living food web factory, and my strawberry patch is booming around the stump.
I followed your suggestion with my raised bed this past summer. It did well. I was wondering what would happen to the logs so it was good to see you dig them up! Gives us a good idea of what to expect.😊
You’re a genius! Going to try this very soon!!! What I’d give to have the amount of crops you get! I am old…..but I really want to do this!!!! Thank you James and lots of love to Tuck!!!!! Love that little guy! My chihuahua is 14….she’s my baby and don’t want to ever be without her! She’s my garden baby!!!
Nothing new here. He even makes a bad mistake around minute 7:00 . The correct way to fill a raised garden bed is to have big logs, small sticks, then a layer of compost, leaves, or grass (not cuttings but sods) to prevent the soil you put on top fall through into the holes between the sticks, etc., cause then you will have an anaerobic & sour environment. Also if you put some ripe compost in, you have an excellent start on soil life. So I put a layer of that and only then the soil on top
@@donaldduck830 So, you think James makes mistakes…..they WHYINHELL do you keep watching him and complaining? Go to someone YOU think is perfect! Do you get the yield James does? Just go away!!! James is incredible….you? Not so much…..
From Australia.
I built raised beds, with logs & sticks on sandy, weedy soil a bit over a year ago, on wasted space at the rear of my brothers business, as I live in my Van, locally. I obviously didn't put enough mulch / woodchips on top. The weeds are thriving through it. What did grow, was screaming with joy! Really hot summer here already! & not a whole lot of rain. I'll have to start again but deeper & more cardboard lining the beds. I collect fruit (for seeds), veg & herbs from the local charity food bank, once a week. Total cost? Zero!
Doesn't the rotting wood attract termites and carpenter ants
let's go Tuck! ♥
great video..thankyou..❤❤❤❤4 Chuck
Love that Tucky boy!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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As I can't garden properly any more my husband made a trial raised bed this year and we filled the bottom with logs, sticks and some straw and topped it off with soil and it is doing well, although perhaps not in the ideal spot - we're in Australia, so it's mid summer here and the runner beans are flowering and we put in a few squash and melons... fingers X'd. I s'pose it's important to say only use natural timber - probably a good way to reuse the prunings and old logs, but not building lumber & never use treated lumber around food crops. Happy gardening guys and keep warm up there!
I use building lumber in mine, same as logs, just dryer. I only use pine. I have some maple logs, but they are a little large to use.
I wonder if those fibers are really roots or mycellium. The later would make more sense to me but I'm not sure.