In this video Dan from www.PlantAbunda... shares with you some results after growing on hugelkultur for the past 4 years & answers the question, "Does the wood in hugelkultur deplete nitrogen in the soil"?
I like how you said there is nothing to it but to do it! I am planning to start my first hugelkultur as soon as the snow melts. I really appreciate you sharing what you know and showing the examples of the different years.
I watched this video, among others, 2 years ago & I've been inspired so much that I'm doing the same! 🌿 The Garden of Vegan is my permaculture project and I just wanted to say THANK YOU for your videos that have inspired me 😊
I love that your wife is Filipino and you have Kabocha squash and Moringa growing for her to cook.😁 Not sure if you know the answer to this question.... but would it be good to use the trunk of the moringa tree as a base for the Hugelkultur pile? We cut down our moringa tree down this summer bc it just got too tall. We still have the trunks and branches in our backyard. My mom (who's also Filipino) says that wood disintegrates so it wasn't gonna hold up if we used it to help build our chicken coop. So I'm wondering if we should use the trunks towards are raised beds we wanna make in the future.
as i build raised beds I do Hugelkultur methods in them. In a high drought area, it has helped me immensely. If it depleting , nothing i have planted in them..doesn't know any better..lol My thick dense red clay soil thats is so hard it basically a rock , this has been my go to solution for create soil and organic matter
Old chunk of coal. Yeah we are learning that one. We dug into the ground about a foot before doing the bed trying to cistern using the hard soil but as you said.... I am getting various melons squash and corn but beans fried. gonna try and add shade and see.
@@One-way I found that growing my beans in the mostly shade helps them tremendously. This year has been awful here in Florida, with temps in the mid 90's. Even my small fig trees dropped their leaves. I hope they come back. The heat is just a killer, and anything in full sun struggles. That's why I like doing container gardening. I can move them out of the sun if it's too much, and I see a difference within an hour or two - they perk right back up. I hang the beans in the trees and they grow up the branches.
Aloha! Awesome vid🤙🏽 my neighbor cleared some of there land before we bought ours and piled up all the brush on our land, so I said "thanks for the hugelkultur😬". we planted some Thai squash on the mounds, can't wait to see what happens. Mahalo for clearing up the nitrogen question. Ours was all old wood so we should have no problems🤙🏽
Ever thought of adding or creating Biochar to the mounds? You probably could just add raw charcoal as a top dressing to the mounds and it will act more of a mulch and help with moisture retention. And as you add more chips over the year's, the charcoal will turn into biochar and add to the built up soil
A lot of squash, I like cukes, bush bean, noodle beans, I'm thinking of trying corn together with corn so they have something to frown on. Collard greens, Swiss chard and things like that. I'm not sure how to plant these plants.
I am in zone 4 bordering on zone 5, WOnder if I can plant peach trees on top of a hugelculture raised bed. I wonder if the heat generated from the decaying wood will protect the roots of the tree for many years as peaches usually can grow here after a deep freeze winter. THanks!
No. The settling of the soil as the wood decays is super bad for tree roots. You could plant peach trees _near_ a hugelbed, but please don't stick it in
Thanks for your nice information. I've 2 Qustion about Hugelkulture.. 1) Do I need add any kinds of compost or something In raised bed (hugelkulture) in one year to 2 years?? 2)How long time I can used hugulkulture bed for vegetable garden?? Can I reused it?? 3) Is there any kinds of maintainence after making hugelkulture bed??
I really enjoy seeing what the caption program does with unusual words like hugalculture. I got a kick out of hooka culture but my favorite by far has been, whooville culture. Dr. Suese would approve.
I always thought moringa was a tree that grew in the desert because it uses a taproot to find the water it needs to survive? If you don't mind, please explain what that moringa perineal you were talking about is. thanks and God bless
Good video. Rather late to the party however question, have you ever recorded the delayering of a hill mound to see the condition of the logs on up. Were to logs put in horizontal or cut into sections with ends up? ty
So inspiring. Thank you for sharing. I have almost 3/4 of an acre I will be dedicating about a 1/3 of that to this kind of design. When you plant your plants at the base of these mounds what are they planted into? Compost with wood chips on top? Thank you.
I just created my first mound and added urine to give some extra nitrogen and get things started. Was hoping to keep it on the down low, but my wife just spotted my gallon jugs in the basement waiting for the second bed.
I've noticed the hugelkkultur videos I've seen all look like they are in tropical/sub-tropical climes. How does it do in mild to warm summers and cool to cold winters?
Thanks for the video! Lots of great info and it's nice to see the plants doing well. What do you use mugwort for? It grows abundantly here, I use it for some chop and drop mulching but I don't know what else to use it for.
Great video...But this is the first time I'm hearing about don't plant with fresh wood! All the other videos I've watched say, "throw it in and go" or nothing about this. Just planted today in fresh wood. Dang!!!
It depends on your exact construction. It doesn't look like this fellow put sod over the mounds (with the grass side down, roots up) but if you do that the nitrogen from the grass will be absorbed by the wood, and later released. Others recommend growing clover on the mound the first year.
My best results with this type of plot is, I dig down to where the soil turns to dirt, and throw whatever wood, prunings garden refuse has collected, I have a above ground swimming pool frame that I encircle with a fence material, and make a tunnel for the chickens to enter. Our kitchen scraps, canning waste, excess fruit, veggies go into the moveable chicken run. I move to new location every year, and the garden just thrives, My fill hole is about 1/2 the size of the run, and it supplies greens for them to eat. Works for me, and the chicken do the tilling, I cover the wood with cow manure, alfalfa pellets them some of the soil from the hole, Most of my better garden growth is on the mounds, as our Arizona monsoons are hard with regards to drainage, and poor soils.
I'm clearing land now. About twenty trees, pines in a couple ofd windbreaks and about half a dozen big hardwoods. I'm opening about a 1/2 acre up to sunlight for panels and plants. I may make extensive use of this technique.
I have some new beds that I am filling and I have a lot of trees and shrubs that I have taken down to make room. I was thinking of using them to part fill my beds and top with compost. I plan to use them straight away but the wood isn't rotted would it be alright to do this? I would appreciate your advice.
Once u see my land and in philippines... Lets see!!!that lamd is a virgin bro.. U wanna come up with me!!! I have my virgin land.. But the problem is.. H2o source!?! The
Hi Dan, I'm considering making hugelkulture raised beds ojn our land out here in West Wales. It's pretty wet out here and we get a lot of slugs. What is your experience with slugs on the woodchip covered raised beds?
If you built one in snake country perhaps. I've never had a snake take residence in my hugel. If there was one around here it more than likely would be harmless like a garter snake. Cheers!
Question: I have a lot of trees and shrubs that will need constant trimming. Can I continuously add trimmings to hugelkulture year-after-year or is there a better system to return those nutrients back to the environment?
I would guess either keep adding to the end or create a 'spiral' design to eventually fill in. Or two parallel to each other & eventually fill in the center. Whatever room you have available would predict the size & shape.
