Comments on: DIY: Gardening Without Weeds & Water? Our Back to Eden Plans

By: Lisa Lynn

Lisa Lynn — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:08:24 +0000

Have fun planting your garden! Your soil looks great! Thanks for sharing this on The HomeAcre Hop! Hope to see you tomorrow night at: http://www.theselfsufficienthomeacre.com/2013/03/the-homeacre-hop-11.html

By: Sonja

Sonja — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:52:35 +0000

Hi Jenny, We are going to be implementing these concepts, too. Thanks for visiting!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:09:46 +0000

We really enjoyed this film and have watched it twice. Excellent concept and one we are hoping to implement in our garden over time. We made many trips last year to the free green waste site in our county.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:01:32 +0000

Hi Steffanie, Thanks so much for sharing. I will have to look more into the nitrogen. Thanks for visiting!

By: Steffanie

Steffanie — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:53:47 +0000

I LOVE back to Eden! Watched it a Year ago and have since started a large sustainable garden using wood chips. We use them everywhere in the yard but I especially love wood chips in the front yard companion garden. It is true what the DVD teaches about weed ease and compost benefits. Wood chips however pull nitrogen from the soil in order to decompose so its important to feed your chips/garden. I use chicken, rabbit, and worn, tea and compost.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:37:08 +0000

Hi Nancy, Thanks you for sharing and visiting!

By: Nancy@livininthegreen

Nancy@livininthegreen — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:46:25 +0000

We have always mulched different flower/vegetable beds with whatever we could find for free or was inexpensive. I believe mulching is beneficial and have seen our soil being built up through the years from trench composting and mulching. Thanks for sharing the info…I will keep it in mind for sure!

By: Sonja

Sonja — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:06:57 +0000

Hi Rebecca! Thanks so much for sharing. It is encouraging to hear success stories!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:30:39 +0000

We have been doing this for 2 years in our vegetable garden. The worms love it and it makes walking in the garden, even right after it rains, very doable. We have clay soil, so going in there to pick vegetables after a rain , would have almost required someone tying a rope to you and pulling you out , before we had the wood chip mulch.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:23:14 +0000

Our friend has done this with his parents flowers for 10 years and just started applying it to his vegetable garden last year. He even got to go to the actual farm since he lives in Washington! He’s seen it work. We will see too, now!