Recent content by CrookedClove

I suppose if the end product is something I can resell, even at just $10 a yard to gardeners, then over the years you could recoup a lot of the cost!

Rich, in OH you can probably get away with that during many winters, especially if you're close to the lake (I'm from Holland MI). Where I'm at we not only get very very cold nights but high winds at times too. Put the two together and even garlic cannot stand it. I've had cloves frost damaged...

Great call Flushcut! Hadn't seen that one yet! Still scary how much they cost... $30k for an older used one is quite a chunk of change. Garlic farming provides a nice income on the side for us but isn't a major cash cow, so I'm going to have to consider the screening route and see what I can find!

TreeMuggs, the fact that there's bigger chips is only a problem because it can prevent a lot of the new shoots from coming up easily (or at all). The more energy the plant spends getting through the mulch, the less it yields at the end of the season. When you grow 50k plus plants that's a hidden...

Levi, I'm in Larkspur, just about 10 SW of Castle Rock right on the foothills.

Marc-Antoine, thanks for the feedback... not terribly encouraging but very helpful!

That's exactly what I'm doing on an acre at a time treemuggs! Soil here is relatively poor and we don't get a ton of rain... Back to Eden is the ticket but difficult on a large scale! At this time we try and take out all the chunks by hand or just live with them, but being able to reduce the...

Thanks MrMoon5Shine! That's been largely disproven! There ARE tree types that can be detrimental but they're rare and cedar, thought it doesn't break down fast, has been proven not to be one of them surprisingly. I had to research this myself. Most of what grows around here is no problem and...

I thought about his too, but the cost would actually be more than buying a chipper and still leave me with a large pile of waste, and I'd have to move it constantly or clean out from under it which is a slow process. It's a backup consideration however!

Ah, I can't picture that on a chipper but I understand the concept and figured there should be a way to weld in a restriction to prevent the larger chunks from escaping!

Oh, one more thing. What actually allows the bigger chunks to get past chipper anyway? You'd think the machine would only let the smaller material pass, but apparently not...

OH, and for what it's worth, if there's anybody out there who is willing to demonstrate the outcome of this process using a few buckets of chips and a video or some good pictures of before and after, I'd be grateful enough to send you garlic in exchange or give you a gift code to my website for...

Hello all, I own a small garlic farm in CO and have a very large pile of wood chips to my disposal that I'd like to use to mulch my garlic. The chips come from a few local trimming outfits and vary a bit in size. On average I'd say the smallest 80% of the chips are small enough for my mulching...