Tree Hugel Pit #12 

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Hello, thank you for the British Isles update! I wish I could grow gooseberries here, but I think it may be too hot, dry, and alkaline. I've looked into date palms, but I think it may get too cold here for them if I remember correctly. My area is a little 'too much' of everything it seems, except acidic and wet. I've been getting more of the coffee grounds here lately, and spreading them around the base of my plants in hopes that it will get worked into the soil over time and lower the PH a bit, but I really need a lot more worms. When I dug this WaldPit (patent pending, name subject to Trademark), I only found one worm, so some areas of my garden space have a long way to go.

@@WestTexasGardenExperiment Some more update info: I planted 'wheat' but it is a cereal which turned out to be cat-grass (aka oat straw or oat grass people ate since prehistoric times, e.g. buttongrass in mediterranean as made into drinks but you must strain the poaceae via a food-mixer-blender to be able to digest amino acids and, legend has it, apparently, vitamins A, C, E, and K, pantothenic acid, chlorophyll, lecithin, calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, and phosphorus but I'm also considering the kernel part of that cereal as food to try maybe by processing it somehow like as a grinding). Aso I planted seeds for russian tarragon, 3 types of turnip I remembered to grow as the news said Member of Parliament Therese Coffey mentioned we could grow some (which btw have health benefits) during vegetable shortages (golden ball, snow ball, purple top milan), dwarf beans, beetroot detroit. I igured it might be inspiration for other sto plant some seed pots. You could grow a gooseberry even in a 1foot pot indoors. Maybe a 'WaldPot' _(patent pending, all rights reserved, not for public broadcast, permit holders only, only 1 child in the shop at anytime, does not constitute medical advice, trademark, copyright)._ Tolstoy: _"Man cannot posses anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."_ My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.

Hey Curtis, this is the 12th pit. I have a good feeling about this one 🤞🏻

Hello, I leave that middle part undisturbed just to give me a solid bit of soil to plant into. I didn't want to mix in wood and leaves and all that other stuff where the tree would be planted because I'd just have to go back and remove all of it when planting. I decided to do that based on my first hugel mound experiment that I ended up removing the upper part from. It was difficult to plant a tree into because of the buried wood, so I decided I wouldn't include the wood where I wanted trees in future revisions. In four of my pits I did have to remove the center, and I just back-filled the middle with soil and nothing else, which really wasn't too big of a deal. The rest I just left the soil solid. I figured it would give the roots plenty of room to maneuver in before tapping into the other parts of the pit. It would also give the wood and such a bit more time to break down before the tree roots entered in.

@@WestTexasGardenExperiment thank for the reply. I enjoy your videos