Using fresh wood chips in garden paths
Mom: "What are you going
to do with your big pile
of wood chips?"
Anna: "Put them in the
garden."
Mom: "Won't they burn
the plants?"
Anna: "Not if I keep
them in the aisles!"
At our first homestead,
we chose to mow grassy pathways between permanent beds because it was
just too tough to haul in supplies. But here, cardboard and wood chips
appear to be copious and free for the asking. So I'm layering the
former then the latter between my beds to kill weeds and slowly build
soil. I'll be sure to keep you posted if the raw wood chips cause
problems placed so far from my plants.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Wood Chips
What about attracting termites?
Comment by
Nayan
— Wed May 9 08:36:09 2018
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From what I've read, wood chips won't attract termites. They like to live in a sealed environment where they control light and humidity. They can't seal up all the gaps in a pile of wood chips. They much prefer nice solid trees, logs and houses.
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Darren Collins
— Wed Aug 1 06:23:50 2018
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