How we are using our walkways to create garden compost: “Back to Eden Method, on steroids.”

[@greenstair]

Hi there. Thanks very much for putting this content up, it's a great resource.

[@WellGroundedGardens]

I’m so glad!

[@GARDENER42]

I grow in 4'wide beds & the paths in between are 15-16"wide. Beds get 1" of compost a year & the paths 2" of woodchip. Both are subsumed into the soil over a similar amount of time. I don't have borders between paths & beds, which allows my plants to send out roots into the paths & oh boy, do they like rooting into the base of the woodchip layer - no more than 3" down. Thus I just leave the composting woodchip where it is.

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Same! In our new garden I’ve just left the wood chips in place in our pathways and I add more every year. The squash beds in particular send their roots WAY out from under our concrete block beds.

[@carolmckeever1037]

I would put cardboard fown to kill the grass and this woll compost down with the woodchips. Charles Dowding no dig videos are my go to in the UK

[@WellGroundedGardens]

We’ve done that exact thing in other areas. Works great!

[@georgechacko7505]

Very good

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Thanks!

[@Riskninjaz]

Good video thanks. 👍🏻

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Glad you liked it!

[@samanthabuss2984]

Which way are your arches oriented? North south east west? I want to install some in my garden this year. But I don't want to mess up and shade out some of it

[@WellGroundedGardens]

Hey, they're oriented with the long dimension east-west. A bit of shade can be good--we put our lettuce and spinach just to the north of it, so that they get some summer shade--it helps delay the inevitable bolting. Other good options are the brassicas (broccoli, cabbage, kale...) and any root crops like beets or carrots. They all do fine, sometimes better, with a bit of midday shade in the summer.