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This is pretty cool!

SuperSize Your Vegetables with Wood Chips & Rock Dust in Your Garden - YouTube

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I watch this guy all the time, I have been using azomite for a few years now. I find it does work. How ever if you use to much it turns into clay and clogs up my pots so I only use it on stuff that is In ground now and only apply before I put a layer of mulch, wood chips, or horse manure down.

Wood chips are usually good because I can get them free from local tree cutting service's.

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Some wood chips are not good to use, but the cedar chips they use seem to be doing great for them! The size of that dino kale was very impressive.

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i have been growing mostly bananas using this. this is not fool proof. there are lots of problems that can be caused that were not talked about here. your problems may differ according to where u live. they cant be simply summed up in a video.

i have had good results despite some problems.. i learned to i.d. them and address them early . its about keeping things balanced. good video.

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Wood chips ---- I just started with 2 yards. After 2 months I see improvement in growth and greening. Will finish off all the beds soon. The Lula cado is loaded with new buds now.

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I used to think that wood chips just wouldn't work out here in the muck soils, but I have seen some of the sugar companies incorporating it into their shallower soil. I'll bet the wood chips out of the horse stalls in Wellington would really bump up your yield.

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For the horses we use pine shavings as bedding for them. Back in Europe the farmers did not like to spread out the horse manure mixed up with pine shavings. They said that it makes the soil very acidic and they always preferred horse manure with straw bedding. The funny thing here in the US is that farmers mainly want the opposite: horse manure with pine shavings, because it breaks down more easily and the mushroom farmers want the horse manure with straw bedding.

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That's the stuff that NANANAMAN uses. He has 8 to 12 inches of it in most of the backyard. I'm sure there is nothing better than stable muck-out. Unfortunately, I can't use it for the same reason you can't plant bananas in your front yard!. lol

Hey Nick --- you could change your avatar caption to ---

"Mucking about with muck-out muck bananas".

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I dont mind the pine wood chips and pine bark. My PH is usually on the high side.

I do how ever prefer Horse manure with straw/hey over wood chips because the woods seem to break down the hey much faster then wood chips.