Wood Chips For Garden Beds
I’m about 2 years into using the bte gardening method.
Wood chips for garden beds. The depth of the wood chip base would probably be about 18. They will not strip nitrogen from your garden soil. In a similar vein, covering paths between the rows or beds of your garden with wood chips allows you to walk around without getting your shoes mucky, even while it’s raining.
My question is whether this is a good idea. Several research studies have shown there is no nitrogen depletion problem for established wood plants using fresh wood chips. This way, you can provide a variety of garden visitors with a place of shelter.
Are there any dangers to adding wood Logs can structure a miniature abode, while wood chips add comfort and extra stability. Here’s a short video with more on using wood chips to fill a raised bed vegetable garden!
We thought that we could use the wood chips from the cut trees to help level the planting area and then build the raised beds on top of the chips. If you’ve access to both logs and wood chips, you could consider developing an animal habitat. Raised beds are infamous for drying out quicker than the soil around them.
Nitrogen deficiency can be amended over time by adding certain materials. Because of this, and the general coarseness of wood chips, they probably are best not used around vegetables and in annual flower beds. Wood chips make clean paths between garden beds.
Vegetable beds and fruit trees nourished with wood chips produce tastier fruits and vegetables! You can even pile the chips up to serve as a killing mulch in overgrown raised beds that you’d eventually like to plant in. Some wood chips can be toxic to your garden depending on where you get them from.