Making Compost in Pathways for Amazing Results!! 

Yes!! We do this too Linda… and if you’re desperate for room, you can plant in the path too🤣 or rotate where you plant 🌱 Hope you’re enjoying the cooler weather now xx Cathi xx 😘

Great idea and execution Linda. The compost path ticks one of the permaculture principals of conserve energy eg make your compost where you need it not 20 meters away. Could not be any closer by being between two beds!

I found this out last year in one path and now going to do it around all the paths then I'll just turn it on to the garden after a year. Such a natural way of using the wood chips and cut back plant material. I was contemplating moving the garden on to the path alternate years but too much of a hassle. Take care =-)

You work so hard at improving the soil in your garden. Your hard work is showing positive results!

This video was the first I've seen from you. I enjoyed it so much!!! I had put a wood chip layer about a foot deep in between my rows. Now I know it will take 2-3 years to decompose. Your content was so worth watching, thank you for your time and efforts! New England, USA

Thanks for your time and dedication. I love before and after shots. Very necessary for gardening videos. And you even made a middle :D

Linda, I am loving the seasonal updates in your video. Very good idea, space saving using every bit. Using many free and nutrient dense resources you already have. The fact that it keeps moisture and fertility for the plants to reach even during the height of summer means you would have to do very little watering. It buffers the earth from compaction. Yet when you walk on it, It helps to break it down. Deep in situ composting with resources on hand is incredible. That’s the basis of tropical rainforests too. I do compost paths and areas covering the earth/rock here on a steeply sloped sandstone cliff site (except some weedy plants from neighbours which I make weed tea with). It holds the earth, creates path swales and berms on contour eventually turning to compost and keeps the mud out of the house from the dog’s paws. Be aware to keep it well away from your house and structures containing wood because of termites though….which have underground nests as big as football fields. Cardboard is used by termite eradication companies as a bait too, so keep that away from your house and damp spots too.

I love that idea Linda and thanks for a great video. 💚👒

What a great idea! Using what we have in the spaces closest to our plants, awsome, thanks so much for sharing, will definitely give this a go. 🌻

Thanks for taking the time and showing us this Linda That was very interesring and enjoyable. I will be giving it a go for sure.

Love you showing Huw’s ideas used in real life in a much different climate! Thank you. I’m very impressed with that scythe-like weeding tool you use just before the 3-minute mark. Please tell me what it is. Thanks!

I’ve started doing this once you showed it in a past video, I love it!

Thank you so much for sharing this "trial and outcome" compost path experiment with us! Really appreciate the detail information as well! Definitely will be trying this! (Also new to your channel) Blessings on your winter break as we are now just getting started! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿 (US)

sometimes i found wood chips in the community containers for an optimal mix w/ grass cuts which a neighbor uses to give me.

What a fantastic video! So well done and I so appreciate the completeness of it showing the process and end result. Thank you for your effort and time making it seamless. Loved it.

So nice to see your enthusiasm! Love love love

Thank you for sharing...👍👍

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Fun, efficient, and lovely!

I wonder if you had more rain it would have broken down more completely. Looks like a great ingredient to go onto the top of your beds.

Awesome got me motivated thanks

I like the accent of down under

I like that , the plants benefit right through. I did enjoy vid, thank you.

Once mulch is first laid, it’s advisable to wet it thoroughly. Mulch will retain soil moisture, but only after rainfall has penetrated. I don’t know what you’re precipitation is like, but if you don’t get many drenching rains, they may not be sufficient to penetrate a compacted layer of sawdust. I’m thinking that’s why you still found it sitting under there virtually unperturbed. If the dance sandwich of notes layers you put in your path had more moisture to start, I suspect you’ve had a more thorough decomposition. You use some water, but sawdust can be pretty resistant. Are used to use pine sawdust as cat litter. It takes a lot for it to get soggy. I envy you having an easy source of clean sawdust.😊

Awesome Linda, i also compost in paths not as good as you did but, then i sift it and put the stubborn materials which are usually larger back on top of the paths which lets the water through the paths and into the beds like a gutter. My friend sells cypress for gates flooring fences outdoor uses because of its resistance to rot so maybe not the best for compost, i could be wrong about that. Thanks for another great video

i use to shred & mix it up such big chunks to get compost earlier

I am going to try this. I realised I have a 200mm trench between my two most productive beds. This trench is lined with sleepers. So I can use the sleepers to make more beds and fill the space between with compost materials. Winning all round.

Very nice. We use wood mulch which does an amazing job of improving our soil but it's over quite a bit of time. I'm gonna try this for a season results. Thanks for the video and how to!

Must be nice to have sunshine

That looks great and not too mention , time and energy saving . We had a lively discussion yesterday on the merits of both composting right next to garden beds or even in them ir creating a compost pile. Im going to create mini terracing in my garden to better harvest and store its own water. After watching this , I'll also do this between those beds . I love that the fruiting of the plants was goid as well as all their lush leaves . Thank you for sharing lovely ❤❤

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Great video! And you took the time to save all the related videos for a whole year. I questioned your use of the cypress sawdust. I looked it up and I read cypress wood contains oils that help it resist rot. That makes it a good option for outdoor furniture, but I'm not sure it's a good option for compost. Your dig seemed to confirm that, since much of the other material showed signs of decay, but the cypress sawdust didn't. I will definitely try your method, though. Thank you.

Wow do great im doing this but on 8000m2

You might consider using a tiller in the pathway and then walking on it as a pathway.

The Cedar that you picked up from the sawmill has almost no nitrogen in it, due to the drying process that lumber goes through. To add to that Cedar takes a very long time to breakdown. I would add some urine to that cedar and it will accelerate the process of it completing the compost process.

I'm curious, why was your garden set back by double-digging the path soil onto the beds? I can understand it was unnecessary work, but did it actually delay growth? Interesting if that's the case for sure.

Great stuff. I'm using saw dust and woodshavings in my walkways, too. So far, without green stuff and manure. And my observation is, that sawdust is rather slow to decompose if the layer is too thick. It can also be dry below that layer. In other areas I used woodchips mixed with horse manure and biochar and that decomposed really well - so maybe mixing manure with the sawdust before putting it on the path - or making more but thinner layers of sawdust will be a way around that? I'm a bit scared to try the compost path method, seeing your monster zucchinis - my trees are already way taller then they where supposed to be growing and I have to prune them really hard to keep them "house garden size" - I'm afraid, if I feed them like that, they will explode 😂 On the other hand - I chop and drop everthing directly on the beds and just put woodchips, sawdust and shavings on the paths. Same stuff, just slightly different arrangement (and almost no manure)

what do you make with all your pumpkins?

First time viewer here. Thanks! I love this idea but shouldn’t you be using manure that has heated up for a year to kill pathogens?

I admire you for moving a worm out of harms way💛🪱💛