How to Sow, Plant & Grow Vegetables in Mulched Beds
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- The soil in my no-till garden is always mulched. I grow a wide range of fruits and vegetables in my garden, and one of the most common questions that I get is how to plant various things in mulched beds - so in this video I try to answer those questions. Specifically, I talk about how to grow perennials & garlic, transplants, Large leafy annuals (like squash), and smaller annuals that grow in rows (like carrots)
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You know Greg watching your videos always gives me information I missed. Kind of like watching a movie twice. I have decided to put some very decomposed wood chips in my bed and walkways and just pull it to the side when I plant my seeds and covering cardboard. Thanks again.
Right on!
So essentially mulch is a better friend than your worst enemy! Good video I subscribed.
Yes! Thank you!
I love this way of gardening, work smart not hard.
Exactly
I lay chicken wire on top of any seeds that I plant. It stops the birds and the cat from disturbing the soil and it' cheap and easy.
That's a great idea
@@maritimegardening4887 I also fold up chicken wire once or twice, (to make smaller holes) for sifting my compost. There's no weight to it. I don't sift a lot but I like to sift enough to use for covering seeds when I plant them. I guess chicken wire is becoming my goto tool in the garden because I also use it to keep the chickens out. LOL
Weeds are my problem. But on another subject. I hear on another channel and try it. It works. Kitchen scraps. Winter I just pile it on my compost. But if the soil is not frozen, I bury it straight into soil. I do the same in late season when I take carrot, I bury the leafs straight into soil. I have more worms in soil than I care to see.
That was a good explanation! I mulched my garden last summer, as per you’re videos, which worked great! But this spring I was a little concerned as how to seed in straw ;) so thank you!🌱🦋🐝
Martine 🇨🇦
Glad it was helpful!
Great advice. I really enjoy your style of gardening. Keep it up.
Thanks so much!
GREAT INFORMATION! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!
Thank you for the wonderful lessons!
Always enjoy your vids, as well as the podcast! Regarding mulch, I believe Charles Dowding only uses only compost (for dampness/slug reasons I believe) but to me that's like bare supersoil! I can't even imagine the jungle my garden would be in a week or less. Of course, I don't have "staff" :)
As I am a cheapweed and eco-minded and also have no source of free wood chips currently, or much of anything else, I'm going to go with shredded dried leaves, since I have many bags of them (thanks to all I nicked them from) I know many advise against, but it's what I have, so we'll see how it goes. Considering adding some paper underneath. One year I was plagued with an apparently free subscription of a large newspaper which appeared in my driveway daily. I was annoyed at first, because papers were sleeved but often wet and weighty, then it occurred to me to use it for mulch so I saved them up all spring. Mulched most of the garden with it, with about a half inch of cypress mulch on top for weight. Worked a treat. Problem became free solution, which is always best case scenario.
Thanks for being you, unapologetically.
Bagged leaves & grass clipping is what I use 90% of the time. People worry too much. The risk is low, especially with bagged leaves - why would anyone spray a tree with herbicides?
Same here, hundreds of bagged leaves, weeds, grass clippings, neatly packed up for me on yard waste day. A gardeners dream come true, and worms LOVE it!!!
Here in NH we have been in a drought situation. Last year was terrible. Not getting sufficient water stressed many of my plants. This year's asparagus Is an example of that. They didn't produce well and most came up match stick size and went to seed right away... I didn't mulch before. But am this year! I am hoping the drought won't be as bad as last year. We are mulching with lawn clipping. Haven't got it deep yet but will continue through the season.
with grass clippings, only couple of inches makes a big difference
Last fall I took a chance and I put the heaviest mulch on my garlic I ever have. I covered it with about 12" of loose hay because, in the past, I was always dismayed by how much it compresses down to by spring and sometimes a weed or two was still able to grow through it the next year. The mulch from last fall worked out fine. It compressed down to about 3" or 4" deep and the garlic came through. I wouldn't use that much if it was lawn clippings or unchopped maple or oak leaves but something that maintains a somewhat broken structure so that the garlic can still find its way through seems to be okay at a substantial depth as mulch.
Every mulch is different - it's neat to see that you're playing around and figuring out the nuances. 12" in fall is 3" in spring for some things, you're totally right! (There's a "that's what she said" joke in there somewhere I'm sure... :)
Thank you for speaking to this topic. Definitely on my mind lately. 😎🇨🇦
You are so welcome!
Hello Greg! Great video, I always learn something. I had so much fun in my garden that my feet and knees are reminding me just how much fun I had. ☺️ You know how it is, you start something and it takes twice as long as you thought it would, but you have to finish it, well maybe you don’t but that’s me lol. Thank you for sharing your style of gardening, sometimes simple and easy is the way to go. 😉
I totally know that feeling and find myself in that situation often. :)
Wow, that garlic heavy mulch was awesome. please share the late summer harvest on video when you pull them. Great stuff as always.
Will do!
Greg, I used a couple of your mulching methods in a new garden. It's a grassy area preferred by gophers. Tilled to remove grass, rocks. Put down horse, goat and a little rabbit manure- mostly aged horse manure. Some bio-char from a brush burn and some ash from same. Mixed it in as well as I could. Then used your cardboard strips method on the first bed. Thought that was too much work. Then I tried the hay mulch method for the next two. What I decided to do was soak the hay in a container. It's hay I raked up off the ground. That was my favorite method. It allowed me to mold the hay in place on the rows very easily. Left behind was a compost tea from the manure that was in with the hay, so I watered with that. It was worth picking up all the hay I'd laid out on the last three beds to soak it. I'll let you know how it works out. Thanks for all your great advice.
Thanks for a great video Greg. Hopefully your spring isn't as rainy and overcast as mine!
Snow storm outside right now :)
Great information. This spring I tried your method of sowing seeds under plastic to start them. I tried broccoli. Then we got winter again, -8 in the mornings, wind and snow. I was sure the experiment would fail. But just the other day they sprouted with almost complete germination.
Thank you for the video explaining that.
Janine McQueen super!!!! Great to know feed back!
Awesome!
I don't have access to hay or straw, but have a big pile of old oak and maple leaves that has been sitting all winter. Can I put this on top of my garden as it is, or should it be shredded, dried, etc. Some of it is packed down and wet, so I'm wondering if that will cause problems and bring in mould, as well as keeping the sun from warming up the soil. Really like your podcasts and videos. Great to have a local gardener who deals with our kinds of growing conditions.
I use leaves all the time. Yes! You don't need to have hay or straw :)
Greg, I’ve been having many questions on how to garden, from a lot of people that never gardened before, due to our current pandemic situation.... i freely admit, i refer to your youtube videos as my source of info, since it is in the atlantic provinces. I suggest you keep in mind that many viewers will be newbies to gardening, and refreshers and basics of gardening would be well received... great channel, and great source of my gardening info!👍
Thanks - yes, I'm always trying to find that right balance of enough information, but not so much that I'm talking for an hour every video. It's difficult to get it right. If I don't say enough, I have to write the equivalent of ten essays to answer all the questions that people ask in the comments and on facebook; conversely, if I speak to every question that I can possibly anticipate (which I am inclined to do), then people complain that I talk too much :) Anyway, using the search-ability of RUclips is a great asset. I have about 380 videos, so it's likely that there a video out there that will speak to whatever the question is . Glad you like the content, and thanks for sharing my stuff man :)
Love your videos
Thanks
Thank you!
You're welcome!
What about leaving vegetable leaves and stalks as a mulch on the beds after you harvest, e.g., you pick your beans, and then just pull up the bean stalks and leave them on the bed. They aren't added to a compost pile, but rather are used as a mulch, decomposing in place.
I do that sometimes
@@maritimegardening4887 I do it lots. Basically, compost/mulch in place.
Hi totally enjoy your videos. We are in zone 5 Havelock ON so your methods are really good for here. One question about newspaper. I have a son who refuses to use either newspaper or wood ash that has had newspaper used to start the fire in anything that we plant our food in. He is concerned about the print and especially now when they are using so much more colour ink. Have you heard anything pro or con about this?
Direct your son to this: extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/techniques/ink-bad-my-vegetables
Great link Greg. We use all our “garbage” paper and cardboard as a mulch as well as the carbon part for our compost bins. Works great and not a worry about chemicals (I’d be more concerned with the air we breathe these days). We recycle any highly coloured/glossy paper :)
Good timing
I try man :)
Great episode! What comprises the mulch in your garlic bed?
I have 6 garlic beds. All mulched with a range of types of yard waste, from leaves to grass, to tall, hay-like weeds (I think this is the bed you're referring to)
lovely video, such valuable information , thank you 😎👍, what happens if you get grass growing from the hay seed?
I think this video addresses your question. ruclips.net/video/BTENCbIR_eA/видео.html
Oh one more question. I could get chipper wood chips, but the fresh ones. How long it takes to make them usable, and for what. I could use them on pathways only for a season. Then what.
Put fresh wood chips on your garden soil but don't til it in. Also great for pathways
I'd like to hear your thoughts on the comment about compost as mulch. Have you tried the Dowding method doing that where you observe how the weeds react to it? Is Dowding compost thick enough to be considered mulch, or do you consider it exposed soil? Same thing with Gautschi; he uses screened decomposed wood chip/chicken manure compost - is that mulch? He likes to call it "wood chips." Does it have to have a certain particle size to be mulch? I would think the weed and water outcome would answer that question. If it suppresses the weeds (like they claim) and retains water, then it's mulch. But you'd have to try it yourself to know for sure. It would also be a superior method if it doesn't fall over as much on top of the exposed bare soil where you direct sow and is easier to shape and mold. Also, a comment on the exposed area drying out - just because the "soil"/top compost layer is dry, doesn't mean it's dry in the root zone, especially if the soil has had a bunch of organic matter added to it over the years.
I've talked about that to some extent in a recent video (link below) .
ruclips.net/video/nW1pcT0WTy4/видео.html
Super job :)
Thanks
Really appreciate your videos! Found them last year when researching whether I could mulch with seaweed (yes!). We’re retiring in 2 weeks and moving to the Gaspé for the summers, where I’m going to expand a garlic and onion patch into a full garden. For one new section, if seaweed is all I can find, do you think a foot of pure seaweed on top of potatoes on untilled ground (with weeds scythed) will work? (Need to chop seaweed up with clippers)? Would you put the scythed weeds on top of the seaweed or under it or somewhere else? Also, something I (and maybe others?) would find helpful is a sort of one-video summary of the basic order in which you plant everything (some initially under hoop houses) and the phenological signs you follow for each as the season progresses. Thanks for all the time and energy you put into this!
That last bit is a great idea - I'll have to give that some thought. Re: the 1st bit - leave the chopped bit where it lies, lay down the potatoes, and pile that seaweed on! Don't know what kinda seaweed it is so hard to say if you need to chop it up - if it's relatively "spaghetti-like" then it should be fine as it is.
@@maritimegardening4887 That's great! Yeah, will look for the spaghetti-like kind. There's usually lot's of that high up on the beach. Thanks again!!
Would you have a recommendation for remediation of twitch grass/couch grass in my asparagus bed I put wood chips on last fall and can already see that they r pushing through
Outside of an herbicide, you'd have to pull it by hand meticulously, roots and all, without damaging the asparagus. Later in the season, when you done harvesting the asparagus, you can mulch heavily with paper and grass clippings to smother it out. Sorry - no easy solution there for twitch grass. For next season, try a denser mulch, like leaves.
I used a thick straw mulch and lost all my French beans to slugs. Would planting into bare soil have made it more difficult for the slugs to reach my beans. Dry soil vs straw?
Move the mulch back a bit, and keep it to 2-3" at most - that's what I do - but I do lose some to slugs - lets say 25% in the absence of a slug bait. As you say - another option is to leave the mulch off until the plants get established - of course that will not make them 100% slug proof either - slugs come out in the dark and don't acre that you have no mulch at night :)
@@maritimegardening4887 thank you for the advice
I am using your heavy mulch method this year and I am using old hay..... my question is... am I to be concerned with the thick layer of gray mold that is forming where the mulch meets the ground?... will this harm the plants in any way?.... thank you for your time..
I wouldn't worry about it. Not sure how much mulch you have on - 3" is all that's needed for most things other than potatoes.
@@maritimegardening4887 ok thank you... my mulch layer started as a foot thick but now is only 3-4 inches...
How do you deal with slugs that love to lurk in mulch?
Georgina Macfarlane I live in the same area as Greg and in the moist woods, aka slug paradise. I mulch everything and on first sight of slugs I take out slug be gone and reapply every 2 weeks. Also have to pick many of them off with the kids, they enjoy it. No easy way with slugs.
Further to Heidi's point (I do the same basic thing) a good number of the things I grow are not bothered by slugs - and the things that are vulnerable to them (like kale) become less so as the grow and become mature.
can I use old bill statements as a mulch?
yes
Folks, any worry about ink in decomposing newspaper? Thanks 🙏
It's usually plant based dye
No worries its soy based.
Do you have slug problems with dry mulches like hay?
Not really - I talk about this somewhat in this video:
ruclips.net/video/nW1pcT0WTy4/видео.html
Maritime Gardening. I’m in ireland so it’s still quite damp in the summer. I’m being hammered this year already. I’ve beer traps everywhere!!! Thanks for that.
Sorry. Need more information. I do appreciate what you tell us. Very helpful
Maybe one of these will answer your questions:
ruclips.net/video/cF9lOYvXJlA/видео.html
Another problem. Perennial weeds are not decomposing. You put them to compost, they grow again.
Do you mean perennial weed seeds or the weeds themselves? I really don't understand this comment. Perennials weeds, like anything else, decompose if you kill them. Here's a vid that I did on weeds a while back: ruclips.net/video/BTENCbIR_eA/видео.html
I mean perennial weeds. The plants. The ones with thick roots. They can survive everything. If I drop them hope they dry, rain is coming, in compost they live until next year, through winter. Now I just damp them in river. River or rather a creek is by my property. Sometimes it stills my soil. So I give it the weeds. Not the best solution, but it works for me. Don't use any chemicals in my garden. Yeah- that's my excuse.
Newspaper might have some ink you don't want in your garden. I am not criticizing. I have to pay a lot for any mulch. That gives me another idea. Try it first and tell us. Leaves when wet and packed in black bag ,in sun exposure. Decomposing fast and furious?
I just put the leaves on top of my soil. No need to waste plastic bags. Most newspaper inks are plant based - I don't worry about it. Just use yard waste as mulch - it's free. Cardboard works well too - also free.
That doesn't look like our lambs quarter.
Perhaps it will be resemblant of it when it's bigger - it's hard to identify things when they are young and undeveloped.
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When you film, please pay attention to the sun. When you stand with your back to the sun, your shadow is cast in your garden beds. If you want us to see the garden bed, stand facing the sun, so your shadow is behind you not in front of you.
I'm aware of that - it's just hard to get it right all the time without a cameraman.
@@maritimegardening4887 you do a great job making the videos and sharing your garden knowledge! I have learned a lot from your gardening methods. My comment was not a criticism, but simply an observation. You appear to me to be an observant man. A person in harmony with his garden and sensitive to nature’s ways. Thank you for sharing what you know and how you garden. Please accept my comment as humble feedback.
@@smhollanshead I know that - no offense taken. Someone tells me my camera angles are bad at least once a week :) I like to think the vids have slowly gotten better over time as I fumble my way through the the learning process - just like gardening :) all the best, all cool