Are logs bad for raised beds? Recently there’s been talk of how this popular method for filling tall raised beds might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
But why? Well, there is a phenomenon called nitrogen immobilization. The simple explanation of why this happens is because adding a ton of wood or wood chips into a soil mixture will result in a fungally dominant soil food web, which will pull nitrogen from the soil immediately surrounding the wood to help break the wood down, thus robbing it from your plants.
While this is TRUE, there are a few considerations:
1. Most gardeners bury logs deep enough in their beds that the root systems of plants grown above in the soil mix rarely make it to the log layer
2. The nitrogen is only pulled from the soil directly surrounding the wood
3. The scale of nitrogen immobilization relative to causing a true plant deficiency is minimal
in the end, we still highly recommend this method, as it saves 50 to 60% or more on soil cost, and is a great way to repurpose organic material.
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How about rocks? Would rocks work? I have a lot of rocks.
Dead bodies also help with nitrogen
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The list :
1. More wood
2. Carcuses
Called "hügelkultur" and it's german
Do I need to go through all 2thousand comments to find your one comment on what not to put on the bottom?
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A good thing to put below is burnt logs, not like pure charcoal but enough that it’s easy for microbes and the plants to turn into useful nutrients. Careful on ash though it could turn the soul acidic.
i think the soil level should be below the edge of the container by a 5 inchs
It’s a technique called Hügelkultur. The wood will slowly decompose and feed the soil.
As long as you're not adding land mines or asbestos to your garden, you're fine
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This is how I do all my raised beds, 6-8 inch of logs. 4 inches or so of dried leaves. 8-12 inches of regular screened loam, then 8-12 inches of high quality soil. Been working like a charm
Where is this place? Mist be Florida with all the citrus trees and stuff like dragonfruit??
Must be so much fun to have a big garden and grow stuff in a climate like that. Where i live we have 2 monts of summer and in late september we can already have occasianal snowfall. So growing stuff like tomatoes or chilis can give you a very hard time if you have no greenhouse. It's possible but sometimes the cold weather just let them grow properly 😢
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Why not just use a bunch of compost?
I did several hugelkulter in my yard about five years ago to get rid of old, decaying pruned branches in my yard. To compensate I added coffee grounds to add NITROGEN to the soil. It worked great.
My mom always filled the bottom of her pots with Styrofoam and small rocks that I would collect from the neighboring lot.
Y’all it’s in the description 😮😅
I did t and mushrooms were all in my garden….used logs. I also had a lot of ants.
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What do you get, in the east, termites.
I can live with knowing that wood logs help.
U suck when you lie 😢what should I add then?
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Hügel kulture
All I got when I used old logs was a great home for termites.
Gasoline? 10w-30? Bleach? Put soil on dirt, but don't put dirt on soil.
what a dummy…..it call raised bed because?
I see a lot o ppl putting pool noodles in their pots and beds. How is this safe? Wouldn't the plastic chemicals go into the spoil?
Doesnt it take like 50 years for logs to decompose? So unless youre handing it down to your kids, whats the point?
Yep. Logs in my beds.
One thing ya don't Wana add is gasoline. It's just to expensive….so add some logs first then fill the rest up with some gas.
I use rocks in the bottom then add the dirt. It's great for drainage. That's all you honestly need! 😊🙏
Why are the beds so deep? If they were not, you wouldnt have to do this, right? I only have indoor plants so Im just curious
Add chicken shit to make up nitrogen
I've some Qustion about raised bed..
1) Do I need add any kinds of compost or something In raised bed in one year to 2 years??
2)How long time I can used raised bed for vegetable garden after harvesting?? Can I reused it??
3) Is there any kinds of maintainence after making raised bed??
You can read the list by clicking three dot on the up right on ur screen and pick description.
He put what not to put at the bottom of the raised beds in the description
logs/branches/sand/cardboard/leaves/charcoal/clay/fish/rich soil/seeds. that's the great later. YOU'RE WELCOME!
I used crushed milk jugs lol
Dem bastards ain’t going anywhere lol😊
Hold the screen for a sec and a menu pops up click on description and there is the list
There isn’t anything in your comments but comments!!
When you say you're going to put it in the comments, you put them there. Someone else had to put where they were (in the description; hit the 3 dots in upper right of the short to get there).
YouTube algorithm wanted to pimp you out, and you lied to us. Your plants deserve a better plant daddy.
It's actually not a problem at all and might assist in providing nitrogen to your plants, especially as beneficial fungi and bacteria find their way into the logs and soak nitrogen up from the decaying wood and return it to the topsoil.
are dead chickens around 180 pounds alright, because they’re biodegradable
what gardening zone are you in? im fairly new to your videos
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