Wood chips are not always beneficial in the garden, woodchips have encourage pests such as pill bugs, earwigs, and wood lice. Wood Chips can also introduce deadly fungus in your garden as well. So you have to be careful about how you use woodchips. It’s not really the fault of woodchips but how you use wood chips.
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1:05 Pest Problems
2:32 Termite Problems
3:03 Source of Woodchips
3:26 Fungus Problems
4:17 Get Free Woodchips
4:44 Benefits of Woodchips
5:09 Mulching Around the Trees
5:50 Nitrogen Stealing
7:25 Fire Hazard
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36 Comments
SO helpful! Much thanks.
Nature full of ifs and buts!
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Great information as always! I harvest my own timber on our property and have a wood chipper set up to to get my own wood chips. Your piles make mine look like nothing 🤣
I'm in Texas and I've had problems with fire ants nesting in the wood chips. They have ruined two grape plants. I now douse the ants in dawn detergent with water. Then I sprinkle the area with diamatacious earth. It's better but I have to be ever so vigilant that they don't return. Good point about the chickens!!!
Really excellent video. I so wish I had this info 4 years ago when I covered my entire lawn with wood chips. The good news…I did successfully kill off my lawn. The bad news, pill bugs and earwigs took over for a couple of years, I had tilled in the chips in some places and those are still decomposing and stealing nitrogen, I killed a HUGE pine tree because I had done the volcano around the trunk…so ya, did I say? Made all the mistakes. Learned anton of lessons and finally my garden is becoming awesome! Wood chips rock, if you know how to use them. Thanks for a super useful video. A must-see for beginners who are all starry-eyed about wood chips after seeing the "Back to Eden" documentary!!
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Thank you!
Thank you for the information.
This was very informative. Thank you.
Rabbit! Is it a farm animal or is it feral? https://youtu.be/206F-SemRg8?t=465
I use wood chips. I live in Texas and after the first freeze in November, I pull all the plants and pour in wood chips. I use soft wood and shredded chips from Lowe’s or HD. With a shovel, I turn them over every Saturday and by April (when I plant) I have very rich soil (chips are gone). The pests and diseases don’t happen when buried. Thank you for this excellent video. I learned a lot about using chips above ground
Thank you! 💖
Wonderful video as always!! I'm in N.Y zone 6a. Four years ago I went to a local furniture store and asked them to save me cardboard. I then asked my local tree service to bring me woodchips. They brought me about 10 yards that fall. I put down the cardboard and then about 12 inches of woodchips ontop. Over that I built some raised beds. First year all along my fence I dug holes in the woodchips filled them with potting soil and planted my tomatoes. I had the biggest heirloom tomatoes that were absolutely delicious. My woodchips are still breaking down after 4 years and I still push back the chips before planting. I never have had a problem with any bugs in them. Environment and type of woodchips do matter. But the best part is I don't have to weed!! So we'll worth it!!
Inside a large chicken pen where chickens like to scratch; add 2” of wood chips over organic matter to produce worms and bugs for chickens to eat?
Another thing about termites. Unless the wood chips are piled up against the foundation of your home there's absolutely no chance that the wood chips could possibly be a cause for termite infestation in your house.
earwigs are good for the garden
The smell of fresh dirt is fresh life. The California wild flower/poppie is a great ground cover. Unfortunately city regulations believe it’s a weed and a fire danger 🫶🏻 In the name of safety we should do nothing but focus on what we don’t like 👹
and roaches!
Jag, I saw a hare jumping at the back, at time 7:53 of your video. So cute.
But doesn't fresh wood chip become old as well?
Sorry my friend, your camera sensor needs cleaning 🧹
Great information. I suffer from pill bugs already so I am careful about my soil and compost or I am in trouble. They so love to eat young seedlings.
Thanks Jag- another great video about a topic I've heard conflicting information about. I have used wood chip mulch for years which never seemed to impede my plants from growing. I did discover many many slug eggs in some of the wood chips, so I use beer traps to trap and kill them. You are so right with the quality of the decomposed wood chip mulch is delightful smelling! God Bless you for this intelligent video!
Ssa veer . Can you make a video about water shoots on orange and lemon planta some people said to cut em and some said to leave them .
You dont know how many gardening channels have blocked me for pointing this out through my experience
Thank you! Very informative.
That's some tough lessons Jag. Thanks for sharing.
I found out the hard way that wood chips are a HUGE no where I live. The previous owner of my house had put down wood chips the fall before I bought the house. The next spring, I was inundated with earwigs and box elder bugs. I'm not exaggerating a bit. I saw a lot of young earwigs crawling around on top of the woodchips and moved them a bit. Holy mackerel! Thousands and thousands of not only box elder bugs, but earwigs as well. When it got warm there would be piles several inches deep of box elder bugs sitting around the yard. I immediately got rid of the woodchips. Unfortunately, thee were so many of both bugs, it was nearly impossible to be outside for the rest of the year.
Wood chips, or mulch, are the best amendment. Moisture retention. Breaks down to amazing soil. Worm habitat. Keeps soil cool. Fertilizes plants. Insect habitat. Weed suppression. Cheap…
I've been using arborist woodchips for a deep mulch for a few years here in Hawaii. It works great. There are a lot of bugs and stuff that make their home in the woodchips, but they help break it down relatively quickly. They also help keep down the population of slugs I have found. I used to have a bunch of slugs, but after the woodchips were applied the amount of slugs I found and the damage they caused dropped dramatically.
I also regularly mix in used coffee grounds to help with break down and add extra nitrogen when it breaks down
I had problems with cockroaches 🪳
Solid content. Thanks for the video.
The pest predators are in the wood chips within months, they are a benefit, I have used wood chips as a top drsg and thick mulch for over a decade and have Never seen a termite, the predators eat them!
There is another source for wood chips. If you live near a sawmill, they have plenty of wood chips for a decent price.
When you say 'aged wood chips' do you mean composted-chips, meaning would wood chips purchased from a hot pile have the same fungus threat?… My leaf pile is 130f right now so it's killing off certain parasites & pathogens, though I'm no expert.
My largest issue with mixing chips into soil is the mushroom bloom make the soil hydrophobic where it literally won't intake water. The fungus turned by raised bed into a cork like structure that could probably float.
Great video. Thanks.
I use cedar bedding for my bunny poo. should I dispose or use this poo?