{"id":3396,"date":"2020-05-07T18:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmhacker.com\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2020-05-07T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:47:12","slug":"wood-chip-vegetable-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmhacker.com\/wood-chip-vegetable-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Wood Chip Vegetable Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gardening with wood chips has many benefits. If you aren’t utilizing wood chips in your garden, I want to show you how to start a wood chip vegetable garden that will make gardening way easier for you.<\/p>\n
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Wood chip gardening offers many benefits. The wood chips help keep water in the soil by preventing it from evaporating as fast as it normally would.<\/p>\n
Wood chips also help suppress weeds by creating a ground cover.<\/p>\n
And finally, as the wood chips break down, they organically fertilize your garden for free.<\/p>\n
These benefits make wood chip gardening great for growing vegetables.<\/p>\n
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Because wood chips take time to break down, wood chip gardens are usually more productive after their first year but don’t let that discourage you from building one now. You can also build them in the fall in preparation for the following year.<\/p>\n
With that being said, here’s how we started our wood chip garden from scratch.<\/p>\n
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The first step was making sure we could get wood chips for free. Lots of tree removal and tree trimming services need a place to dump their wood chips so we were able to find one that dumped theirs at our farm.<\/p>\n
If you need wood chips, call all of your local tree removal and tree trimming services and ask them if they are looking for a place to dump their wood chips.<\/p>\n