We Covered Half the Garden in Wood Chips (18 Month Update)

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Over a year ago we did an experiment in the garden by covering half of it with wood chips. The results have been very eye-opening! Here's what I liked, disliked and if we're mulching with wood chips again this year. melissaknorris.com/279

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
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1:25.2	Welcome to episode number 279.
1:29.2	Well over a year ago now, I decided to do an experiment with my garden.
1:40.0	And my husband was not quite so on board with this experiment as I was. So we ended up doing half of the garden in wood chips and then we waited an entire year.
1:57.0	It's now been actually a year and almost a half because we did it in the spring of 2019, and it is now at the time of this recording well into the fall,
2:09.6	almost November of 2020. We covered half the vegetable garden in wood chips and this is going
2:18.8	to be about the results, what I would do differently, what I would do again and the overall thoughts one full
2:26.8	year later but first let me officially welcome you to the podcast.
2:35.1	I'm your host Melissa K. Norris, a fifth generation homesteader who got back to my roots
2:40.0	of using simple modern homesteading for a healthier and more self-sufficient life
2:45.3	after a cancer scare in my late 20s. This is the place for you my friend if you
2:51.1	sometimes wondered if you weren't born a hundred years too late, if you've
2:56.0	always thought that you and Laura Ingalls would be best friends, and if you think that every
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