WHY You Should Put Your Beds to Bed for the Winter!

[@JoyfulHomestead77]

Find free wood chips delivered in your area - getchipdrop.com

[@raymondneil7870]

This information should be very helpful to you subscribers.

[@VLXMario]

I like keeping my woodchips in the pathways and planting a cover crop of rye grass in the garden beds during the winter.

[@JoyfulHomestead77]

Yes! I have heard that certain cover crops are really good for nitrogen fixing and for keeping the beds from eroding, etc. I just purchased a 4lb bag of buckwheat that I am going to try the same thing on my resting side of the garden. I was actually thinking of throwing it IN the wood chips, not sure how successful that will be, but I guess I will find out. Good idea on wood chips for pathways-the traffic can make it a muddy mess, otherwise. Good luck with yours, let us know how it works for you! Thanks for sharing!

[@VLXMario]

@JoyfulHomestead77 i will be uploading videos of the progress

[@kellyf3626]

That was very helpful. I thought I had to compost from my kitchen, so I’m glad to know there are other ways to enrich my soil.

[@JoyfulHomestead77]

With scraps from your kitchen, it is always good to have a compost bin or a vermicomposting (earthworm) bin for that stuff. Very little of it will do its best work if put directly on your soil, but will be great if broken down over time, THEN put on your garden. I think kitchen composting is an awesome idea, but it certainly takes some planning and foresight to do it correctly. We are fortunate because our kitchen scraps go to the chickens, then the chicken manure is mixed in with our wood chips- so we have a "middleman" to make quick work of it!

[@kellyf3626]

@@JoyfulHomestead77Briilant!

[@raymondneil7870]

That’s a lot of chips but your garden will winter well!

[@JoyfulHomestead77]

Yes we are super excited that we are able to network with a local tree service! They get the benefit of a shorter trip and a FREE drop of chips as opposed to the landfill, and I get the benefit of FREE compost on a gigantic scale! I always recommend that gardeners try to allow some "fallow" time (2-6 months) each year for their gardening spaces, and wood chips helps that rest time become really productive....