This video teaches you how to plant seeds in a wood chip garden. Back to Eden Gardening is a no-till regenerative organic gardening technique that uses wood chips to regenerate the soil, grow healthy plants, and nutrient-dense food. Learn the most common problems with planting seeds in wood chip gardens and easy solutions to get amazing growing results every time you plant! Planting seeds in a wood chip mulched garden is easy and does not involve preparing the soil by tilling or digging.

Traditionally, gardeners dig, loosen, or turn over the top layer of soil before planting. Their intention is to eliminate weeds and make it easier to plant but it literally does the opposite causing more work and more weeds! Tilling the soil kills microbial life in the soil which makes farmers dependent on chemical fertilizers, reduces soil loss, and dramatically reduces crop yields! Plus, tilling releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In stark contrast, wood chip gardening, no-till gardening, and cover crops keep the carbon cycle in balance. In fact, these growing practices actually sequester carbon in the soil. There are many organic mulch materials that are beneficial to improve your soil including cover crops, straw, manure, leaves, etc. However, studies comparing various mulching and cover cropping methods found that arborist wood chips produced the highest yields and improved the soil the most dramatically! That is why we cannot recommend enough times to switch to wood chip gardening which eliminates the practice of tilling and the need for chemical fertilizers.

Learn more about wood chip gardening at www.backtoedengardening.com

Video credits:
Produced & Directed by Dana & Sarah Films
Music by So Fo Real Productions