Gardening With Woodchips

🌱 Different pockets of material within a load of wood chip mulch can be used for specific purposes such as mulching around established trees or building up whole culture mounds.

🌱 Finer particulate wood chips break down quickly throughout the winter, leaving larger wood chip chunks towards the surface, creating a skin layer.

🌱 Wood chip mulch with primarily just wood chips is great for rebuilding pathways, keeping them neat and dry throughout the winter or for inoculating an area with mushroom spawn.

🌱 The objective of covering the entire landscape with mulch has been accomplished, and now the focus is on rebuilding certain areas and recovering pathways.

🌱 The sheet mulch technique, using cardboard and mulch, can smother out unwanted weeds and turn it into a premium garden bed for the next growing season.

🌱 Preparing for the next growing season can start early by bringing in mulch materials, mapping out new garden plots, and deciding which fruit trees to bring into the garden.

🌱 Getting a jump start on preparations for the next growing season will lead to better success, and the earlier you start, the better.