Build Soil Health with Wood Chips

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Wood chips: They’re abundant, inexpensive, and renewable. There are many possible applications in horticulture.

Uses of Wood Chips

Wood chips have many uses in gardens, farms, and landscapes:

Mulch to suppress weeds and conserve moisture

Heat for propagation

Growing media

High-carbon ingredient for composting systems

Soil amendments

Ben Raskin’s new book is The Wood Chip Handbook.

He sees a lot of untapped opportunity for wood chips in…