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Prepare Garden Bed by Raking Mulch

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What happens here

Mrs. Stoney Ridge begins by raking out wood chip mulch from a designated garden bed area. The purpose of this mulch is multifaceted: it adds valuable biomass to the soil, helps control weed growth, and aids in moisture retention. Josh explains that the soil in this particular area was previously sterilized and compacted due to a house fire, making the addition of organic matter crucial. The plan is to create rows by pushing the mulch aside for planting, then redistribute it around the newly planted vegetables to maintain these benefits. Josh demonstrates the raking process, emphasizing the goal of evening out the mulch layer.

Goal: Rake out wood chip mulch from the garden bed to prepare it for planting, utilizing the mulch for soil improvement, weed control, and moisture retention.

Tools and materials

  • Garden rake — Raking and spreading wood chip mulch in the garden bed
  • Wood chip mulch — Adding biomass, controlling weeds, and retaining moisture in the garden soil

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oh so what you're doing mrs. Stoney Ridge break out the malts for the garden working girl hands how they hurt and you need your gloves not yet maybe the same so what she's doing well I'm walking around like an idiot with the camera which I should be helping her but I've got another task on the other side of the farm and I've been picking sticks up all morning she's raking all this out I think if she hadn't known she was gonna have to rake all this up she probably wouldn't go into the gym this morning it's not that big a deal it's about a 20-minute job and I'll show you what it looks like after she got done here this garden is probably somewhere in a neighborhood of a quarter of an acre and this is plenty enough to feed our family we really only need about probably a quarter of this garden so the reason for the mulch here on the garden is that we had access to a lot of woodchips and I wanted to put some more biomass in our soil here this was one of the worst places there used to be a house right here they burnt the house down we had a brush pile as big as our house right here and we burnt it up and basically baked the ground sterilized it and turned it into concrete so we're trying to fix it up we got the chickens close by so we can put our manure in the garden and eventually the plan is we'll have it all fenced in all the way around so once the garden Peters out at the end of the year we can move our chickens through the garden and let them clean up the scraps and put down some manure forests that get old but fertilizer we like so much so the task I have to do today is we're going to spread a couple hundred pounds of grass see I've already spread about 200 pounds of grass seed this morning before I got the camera out and we've got a bunch of sticks and rocks and stuff to pick up on all this new land that we cleared not take you around we'll show you that we cleared about somewhere in a neighborhood of 40 to 42 acres of new land and this is really really rocky soil that's why I call it the Stoney Ridge so we got a lot of rocks and sticks and roots and stumps and stuff that we need to pick up and put in the burn pile down here now if you didn't catch yesterday's video we put these ridiculous wheels on the Gator they seem to be great they actually leave less of a footprint than the old Gator tire so I'm actually gonna use them I'm gonna keep them on there for a while I think it looks really cool and they serve a purpose they leave less of a footprint and dig…

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