BACK TO EDEN GARDENING | 7 Tips to Avoid Failure

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Thinking about starting a Back to Eden garden? GREAT! It’ll be slow-going at first though until the effects of wood chips composting on top of one another start to give you their full benefit. In this video we share 7 tips on how to get better results from your Back to Eden garden sooner than the 2-3 year mark.
We hope this helps you on your Back to Eden gardening adventure!
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A bit about us:
My wife and I grew up in sunny southern California, 15 minutes away from the beach. As amazing as that was, we both dreamed of a life closer to land and animals. After getting married and moving to Utah, our family slowly grew. We had become a family of 4 living in a townhome with a small backyard filled with potted plants and a swing. In October of 2019 we decided it was time to make the dream a reality and move to a homesteading property. We came here with a 6 month old and a 3 year old and a fish. We now have a 18 month old and 5 year old, 4 pregnant sheep, 30 chickens, 20 (or so) rabbits and a garden that has the potential to sustain us and our animals, and a fish. There's lots of learning to do! And we've been happy to do it as we pursue a more enjoyable and sustainable life here on "the farm."
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1 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 28

@dauntlessdivine2627 2 года назад

I dont see why people think Paul only said woodchips...? He recommends to put several inches of compost down with woodchips that still have green material on top as a COVER. He never said grow in only in pure woodchips. Now that his garden is established, he puts wood chips in with his chickens and adds green material in the coop and the chickens create compost from the fresh chips for him. He adds this to his bed to enhance the soil every year.

@robertsimons4543 3 года назад

Don’t be disrespecting Paul Gautschi, he said you need leaves in your mixture of wood chips.

@Mrs.LadeyBug 7 часов назад

Yes, exactly. It’s supposed to be “whole tree” chips; leaves, smallest branches, etc. He does not say to put on the bark or coloured chips from stores, etc. Also, it is recommended to be aged and mixed with compost. He has chickens and feeds them his old veggies/carrot tops/etc. He tells you to plant your seeds directly into the soil, not into the wood chips. So many things people have missed when they think they are “correcting” what he actually did say already. :)

@madeirafonseca6383 Год назад

1) Add compost 2) Make a compost run for small animals [chickens & rabbits] 3) Large animal manure 4) food scraps 5) vermicomposting [worms] 6) grass clippings 7) garden scraps

@NevadanHunter 2 года назад

If you listen to what is talked about in the film he clearly talks about hauling in truck loads of composted horse manure and that he uses his chickens manure. I think the problem with people thinking it only takes woodchips is that they haven't listened to what was said, they hear what they want to hear.

@tiffanyshepherd3358 3 года назад

Continuing to learn so much from your videos. Thanks so much!

@homesteadingwithPJ 3 года назад

Thanks for watching. It means a lot to hear this kind of thing!

@jessicah.1828 2 года назад

Thanks for the great tips! Also love the humor thrown in (maybe you didn't mean it but I was laughingso hard at, "But I'm super tacky so I use a machete".

@wudchk Год назад

My goodness the level of people defending Paul for diverging from his methods is astounding. He's not the end all be all for how to do things folks. People have to do what works for their climate, not everyone gets 6 feet of rain per year like the PNW.

@barbarazuazua3927 Год назад

Good compliment to the Back to Eden video. I watched BTE a few times preparing myself for this spring since winter. You make great points about adding nitrogen. I was thinking that blood meal would be a great help for such a large area. I tend to use grass clippings to get that extra nitrogen, but adding a garden just made the demand higher. I'm currently in search of finding aged manure. In a bind, blood meal would help a lot. I started a vermiculture bin! It's going great after a few months. It will never be enough for my small garden though. I'm thinking my bin with 1000 worms will be good for potting soil amendments at about the 6 month mark. It's been cold so it might go faster with the rising temperatures. But I wanted to comment on your suggestion about making a safe place: Make sure it's in the SHADE! If it's in sun you will just cook the worms! I'm thinking I might convert my mini worm farm to worm towers in my garden instead of the bin method. They'll be in a consistent temperature with freedom to roam and breed in a natural setting without me having to fret over their environment so much.

@charlescoker7752 2 года назад

All chips are not created equal. The chips with a lot of green matter breaks down faster. I had two piles one broke down fast the other took much longer Not enough green matter in the slow pile. Adding organic nitrogen

@TulipAcres 3 года назад

I've been thinking of putting red clover in my paths, too. Will it take over the garden? I also have buckwheat that I'm going to try.

@homesteadingwithPJ 3 года назад

I have used red clover for a bunch of stuff, but not for patches yet. I could see it creeping in it's second year, but I wouldn't expect it to crawl much it's first year. I've thought about using buckwheat too, but haven't yet.

@TulipAcres 3 года назад

@@homesteadingwithPJ I'm throwing a red clover mix behind my chickens as well. But I didnt put down,any straw so I'm afraid much of it won't germinate.

@aliciapyle5 3 года назад

If you’re breaking new ground walk me through the steps. Mechanical tillage to get rid of grass first? Then lay down chips? How deep? Can I plant small seeds into the chips? Like lettuce carrots etc

@homesteadingwithPJ 3 года назад

We'll the biggest advantage of this is to NOT break new ground, rather just build soil up. So if it's grass, just cut very low and get 6-8" of chips and you can plant directly into them.

@vivadevega 2 года назад

So I can easily do this with my chicken manure. Thanks!

@homesteadingwithPJ 2 года назад

Yes! Chicken manure is really hot (meaning lots of nitrogen) so that's a perfect application for it!

@judybuessing5143 2 года назад

Do you place compost on top of preexisting chips the following year?

@homesteadingwithPJ 2 года назад

I try to! Better is to put the compost on and rotate my laying hens all of it to get more nitrogen into the wood chips.

@bigbrew5750 3 года назад

My lord where do you find the silver fox rabbits? I'm having no luck & I've been looking since last year.

@homesteadingwithPJ 3 года назад

It was really hard for us too. My wife looked for weeks and finally found someone like 3 hours away for our first set. Turns out even those ones were duds. Eventually I saw someone buying rabbit feed at the store and started talking with him. Turned out, he was rasing silver foxes too. So that's where out first buck came from. So lucky!

@bigbrew5750 3 года назад

@@homesteadingwithPJ well whenever/if ever you breed & sell I'm 100% interested!

@homesteadingwithPJ 3 года назад

@@bigbrew5750 We will let you know!

@rawjola7431 2 года назад

I love the tips but it's still beyond me how can anyone have a heart to kill and eat a rabbit 💔

@rawjola7431 2 года назад

Please tell me you don't eat the rabbits 😭😭

@i8dpie 2 года назад

Poor Bunnies. 😥

@AdmiralsGaming69 2 года назад

i guess your not one to watch how nature does it are u shame and Don’t be disrespecting Paul Gautschi you need to watch how nature does it and do what she does plan and simple