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15 Feb ’12
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cool site that shows them building their beds, pretty small footprint as well
23 Feb ’12
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I've been saving wood and composting all summer with the intent of heading this direction. I might finally break ground and do some digging here in a couple of weekends.
15 Feb ’12
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I've been saving wood and composting all summer with the intent of heading this direction. I might finally break ground and do some digging here in a couple of weekends.
how's your soil down there? Hard clay?
23 Feb ’12
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I have awesome soil actually. It's just great black soil for 1' to 2' ft then clay. My lot has been here since the 20s and lots of the past residents seem to have been gardeners. The past owners pretty much left everything alone and let the chickens run and the leaf litter pile up, which all in all, isn't the worst thing they could have done.
3 Nov ’12
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One think I can tell you, CC is that you will need to use a good groundcover/mulch.
I put mine in last year and there was a weed explosion I had to deal with. Other than that, the strawberries and blueberries love it. Im going to put in another one this year. Im going to polyculture it, but the main crop will be sweet potatoes. They supposedly love hugelmounds also.
Sounds like you'll be off to a good start with what you have going on there.
20 Feb ’12
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Every time I see a hugel bed I can't help be see rain running off with little opportunity to absorb. If you dug a slope back towards each hugel bed on each side you will at least get absorption at the base of the bed, but I don't see that as ideal. I know the wood will wick the moisture into the soil, and the organic mass retains a ton of water, but I see a lot of potential for your bed tops to dry out. Maybe I am just being silly, but for those with hugel beds, do your tops dry out?
I'd like to try a hugel bed with a channel in the top to catch water, and maybe some swale like ridges on the sides to encourage more water to stay high and work with gravity while moving through the bed.
Looking at the short end of the bed, parallel to the long sides, something like this?
Thoughts?
15 Feb ’12
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interesting idea KE, aren't the swales you built at your parents basically mini hugelkultur beds?
http://thehomesteadi.....hread3368/
we technically haven't built one, we incorporated some wood into our raised beds, but our berm is basically a bed,it grows like crazy
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