Taking Back to Eden woodchips to the next level: Maximizing root exudates

It's about to snow again, so I'm going to take advantage of this and scatter seed. The new snow helps hide it from creatures who may eat it. Scattering seed right on top of snow on top of woodchips does work. It's just all about what you are maximizing.

For example, I could maximize the success rate for each individual seed turning into a plant. But that's a very laborious prospect. Saving seed in a cool dry place, cold stratifying, germinating, planting in seed trays under lamps and on top of a heat mat, watering it, tending it, thinning it, potting it up, transplanting it, watering and babying it, etc.

Or, if I don't care about "per seed" success rate, and care more about "per hour spent" success rate, then just carpet bombing a location with a few thousand seed every minute will work just fine. Yes some of this will get blown away, some will get eaten by birds, some will try to germinate on top of woodchips. But some will get carried down to the soil level by snow melts and rains, and will germinate into soil. They will push woodchips up and away and turn into plants. I mean, that's just kinda what nature does right? Drop seeds from above like a carpet bombing mission.

In today's video we "build a seed bank" for our future food forest. Some of this may pop up this spring. Some may not pop up until 7 years from now. What we're doing here is taking advantage of the season...

And we often forget to do this. In whatever season you are in, there are massive opportunities to be taken advantage of. Our world is covered in snow up here right now, it's hitting -10 to -15C at night, and I'm going to go gardening for a bit. Why? Because many plants are dried up and holding onto seed still, and if I want these to propagate further away than a few feet from the host mother plant, then I need to get out there, and spread seed like I am the wind itself.

I mention this in the video, but every single flower and herb being propagated here today is LOCAL, and NON-INVASIVE. I think this is important because I am being a bit "reckless" with spreading this stuff around in today's video. While I do have issues with certain things being on non-invasive lists (mostly pioneer species that do not smother, and die to any competition at all), this here is actually an area we can do a lot of damage in if we were spreading invasives.

Thanks for watching.

Plants propagated today: Rudbeckia Hirta, Penstemon Digitalis, Penstemon Hirsutus, Liatris Spicata, Geum Triflorum, Achillea Millefolium, Monarda Fistulosa, Verbena Officinalis, Aster Cordifolius, Asclepias Tuberosa, Solidago Ptarminicoides, Lobella Cardinalis, Eupatorium Maculatum, Asclepias Incarnata, Verbena Hastata, Solidago Uliginosa, Acorus Calamus, Helenium Autumnale, Gentiana Andrewsii, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Zizia Aurea, Geranium Maculatum, Asarum Canadense, Aster Macrophylius, Matteuccia Struthiopteris, Trillium Grandiflorum, Tiarella Cordifolia, Viola Sororia, Solidago Flexicaulis, Hypericum ascyron,
Calluna vulgaris
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