How to be a lazy gardener

[msshoeka]

Thank you for the lessons. You seem so earthy and peaceful. Be blessed

[homesteadaquariusviewmaste]

Hello my friend. I am coming to you from Arkansas Woodcutter. I appreciate your take on lazy gardening!😂👍
This will help a few folks.

[tmbsrtmbsr]

I have been reading Ruth Stouts books on this mulching method and it is great seeing it in use. Your gardens look great. I am getting much older now and looking forward to this method. I have been reluctant on doing this for a long time because of critters. I use to mulch out garlic and asparagus beds only to find them rampant with mice and voles in the spring and living in the raised beds. It was a mess and they just destroyed everything moving from bed to bed. The garlic bed was ok but the asparagus roots were destroyed. I stopped planting root vegetables like carrots and potatoes but the voles and mice would take a few bites and move on destroying those crops.
My question is do you have any issues with these types of critters and if so how do you combat them. It seems Ruth Stout was lucky as she would put it not having issues with these types of animals. One other thing when my soil was doing incredible well with my back breaking cultivating we had abundance of earth worms which created another issue with moles because of the earth worms. In one season before eradicating the moles they ate all the earth worms from under the compost I was producing.
I am going back to this mulching method again this spring because we love the garden but due to age it is becoming difficult to do all the labor intensive ways that mulching eliminates. So any help with how to deal with the critters please let me know.

[samnikole]

Greetings from Bulgaria! Thank you for your vid. I got a good supply of mulch so I think I will go nuts this spring. lol

[patricianunez]

I'm trying no dig, organic cottage garden, raised beds, lasagna style, composting, Back to Eden, straw bales etc... Trying it all! May need to raise some rabbits too. Ha
The best sun I get is in the front yard so trying to keep it looking pretty. May need Woodchips on top the hay. Ha
Does the hay need to be rotten? Or can I use fresh?

[friendlyfoodforest]

I am in year two of a back to eden food forest. Joshua Zieba channel where we're killing grass and planting fruit trees and everything else. We are using wood chips.

[virginislandwild]

Thanks for the advice, so simple, no fuss. Love it!

[kensimmons]

I know this vid is 7 mo. old, Hope you still read comments.... Do you have a problem with slugs & snails with heavy mulch?

[kurtrudolph]

How do you deal with planting? Are you strictly transplanting, or can you direct seed? Do you have to remove the mulch layer if you are planting carrots?

[sparky]

it is really easy getting and keeping a nice clean, highly productive garden. bribe your wife and kids to do it

[audreylong]

Where do you affordably access that much mulch/hay?

[cardstockcollector]

What do you recommend for using as mulch?

[kazzana]

Good video, though I disagree about crop rotation. If your soil has a good balance of soil microbes, like fungi and bacteria, disease will not be a problem, nor will fertility. The old woodchips from your paths could be added to the top of your beds to introduce more fungi. Old woodchips on your garden give it a compost tea every time it rains.

An excellent source of information on soil biology is Dr Elaine Ingham. Once you establish an aged mulch of woodchips, you are unlikely to ever need to water again, though seedlings when first planted appreciate a drink, and you should never have to feed your plants again.

I have to admit, the first couple of years with woodchips is tough going growing vegetables, but after it matures, it just gets better each year. Any mulch is good, but I favor woodchips as the complete tree has stored heaps of nutrients and they need replacing less often, plus that fungi benefit. As you probably know weeds prefer a bacteria dominated soil, and as your fungi percentage increases conditions for weeds become less favorable.

[JanicePhillips]

Need nitrogen?
Pee on it.
lol
10 parts pee, one part water.

[MrArtbyart]

Thanks. Has your garden become infested with snakes?

[knotweedkninja]

This video is much easier to watch if you kick the speed settings up to 1.25.

[natureboy]

Put down a layer of overlapping soaked cardboard first.