Do you have a woodchip market garden?

Is there anyone out there that uses woodhchip on a market garden.  Looking online, it seems that most market gardens (esp small ones) use bare earth rows (esp for things like salad greens when many seeds a direct sown) or rows with weedmat and holes in them for putting transplants.

Transplanting could happen in woodchip easily, but what about direct sow?

I don't and I haven't seen any around here... most of the market gardens here use plastic row covers.

My concern with pure wood chip in an annual garden is unless the woodchip has composted fully it's likely to be fungal dominant which my understanding is would be great for woody plants, but less awesome for annuals that prefer a bacteria dominant soil. I have heard of several people moving from woodchip to other compost for their annuals after seeing less than ideal results. But there are probably cases where it has worked, I'm just not familiar with them.

In my garden I make woodchips for the paths between the garden beds and use a compost/mulch hybrid for the annuals.

Here are a couple of threads I found in the Market Garden forum where wood chips are being used.  One for helping with irrigation and one for helping with weeds:

https://permies.com/t/137884/Water-Garden#1081792

https://permies.com/t/129578/Weeding-methods-work-don-locales#1016590

To me, most market gardens that you see are not being planted by permie people.

L might be right about the annual veggies though the good might outweigh the bad.

Thanks for this - L. Johnson, what other mulches would you recommend for annuals?  Out of interest, would you use woodchip for cane berries?

Annie Hope wrote:Thanks for this - L. Johnson, what other mulches would you recommend for annuals?  Out of interest, would you use woodchip for cane berries?

I use rice hulls and chopped and dropped vegetable matter and some weeds. I think Ruth Stout used straw? Basically whatever I can get that doesn't introduce more problems than it solves.

Yeah I think wood chip mulches wood probably work well with blackberries and such, though I don't know that they need much help in most cases.

Take my advice with a grain of salt though, I'm still a novice gardener myself.