Wood Chip Garden Designs
Avoid sawdust and chips from any of the woods listed above and any kind of processed or pressure treated wood.
Wood chip garden designs. This way you can provide a variety of garden visitors with a place of shelter. Colored wood chips or naturally weathered chips or bark act as mulch for your garden plantings. A surplus of logs and wood chips could also be used to build raised beds by the technique called hügelkultur.
Fungi will colonize the wood so you ll likely get mushrooms over time. They would also be great covering paths between. Within a couple of years the wood chips will break down into humus.
As more of the wood chips become humus plants can start growing in the paths. Wood chips are the perfect material for paths in a woodland garden perhaps laid over weed proof fabric to stop weeds coming through the path edged with logs to keep them from travelling onto borders. This is a technique in which compostable biomass materials such as decaying wood debris and wood chip is used to construct a mound.
Not a big deal in my opinion. Wood chips make a great surface for winding paths in woodland gardens. Logs can structure a miniature abode while wood chips add comfort and extra stability.
If you obtain wood chips from a vendor or landscape supply make sure to get an idea of what type of wood is used and if that form of wood is safe for a garden. If you do nothing they can get muddy.