Why we got rid of our HUGELBED
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- In this video I'll tell you what hugel culture is, how we made ours and why we're getting rid of it now. Also we celebrate my husband's birthday - in the garden, of course!
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You guys are a hoot. Happy belated birthday to your husband, and many more days spent in the garden together.
Wishing R a joyful, peaceful, lovely birthday! 🌷💚
And great work, everyone 💪🥰 Thanks for this fun, positive video to start my day ☕️
That was a really fun video - happy birthday to your husband and it’s nice to see what good helpers the boys are. Even though it got a weed explosion - and who hasn’t had that happen in their garden - your bed was so pretty and I’m sure the new one will be awesome too. Thank you for your many informative videos!
Another great video! Happy Birthday to your husband!
Lovely video!! We also built and then took out a hugelbed from our yard. Lots of work but so much to learn 💖 Thank you for this wonderful video 🥰
great vid! Its really put a smile on my face!
Such a happy video and congratulations to your husband!
Happy birthday to your husband! I just received your book in the mail - it's now my favorite read. As a newbie to permaculture, I appreciate that you keep it simple, natural, and very approachable.
I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying my book!! Would you please consider writing a review on Amazon (if that's where you got it)? It helps so much :)
Super cute, 10 for sure, happy birthday to you vera's hubby!
Nice to see you having fun ❤️
Happy day! Good job! Thanks for your honest story about the hugelbed.
Dankjewel, Lieven!
Love your videos and your family is lots of fun!
Looove the Toronto Blue Jays hat!!! Woohoo!!!
And your not the only one that puts her family to work....lol my husband never knew how much of a farm girl I was until after he married me hahahahaha now he knows :)
I so look forward to your videos. I'm doing a Chinese inspired permaculture Garden. So we shall see how it turns out :) fingers crossed. I'm also doing a squash trial based in super weird names and see which one tastes the best. I can't wait to see what your other package of seeds that weren't in the video are that your growing this year :) happy gardening
Also..... fantastic book!! I read it in a day haha and I've gone back a few times to re-read
I just found your channel. What a wonderful presentation, thank you so much for sharing. Happy Gardening to everyone
Thank you!!
Awww! Your husband got in the frame! Also, what a great way to celebrate your birthday - outside!
It was a lovely day for us all :)
Happy Birthday to your husband!! Love your videos!
Thanks so much!
Happy birthday young man ! 🤝🎁🎺🎺🎩🇨🇦
Succes la lucru Vera 🇷🇴
This is darling. Loved seeing your family. Hello from Arizona!
Thanks so much, Angela! How are you? I've pretty much stopped using IG but I am enjoying making videos at the moment - it is also easier to go more in depth in this format.
@@GrownToCook Hi Vera. I am doing well, and enjoying the beautiful spring weather. Videos are a good format, I love seeing you with your family.
Hi! Vera I am new to your channel through Huw Richard channel loved his also you guys are gardening organically and that’s the way it supposed to go for safe and healthy way. Loved seeing all of you working together in the garden and is your husband’s birthday as well. Loved the polyculture technic it is so naturally to mimic the nature. Can’t wait to see your next garden video. Thank you for sharing and your knowledge of gardening. Happy Spring and happy gardening. From west Michigan zone 5b.👍😊
I love your channel and everything I am planting this year are plant recommendations that you made!!! So thank you for having an input in my garden :)
That's lovely to hear, Emilia! I'd love to see your garden :)
@@GrownToCook I wish I could invite you over! My garden is in Armenia :)
Happy Birthday. Enjoyed watching from California.
I built my hugel during the first lockdown (early spring last year) and covered it with my own compost. I love the way that I barely needed to plant a thing: just a small hazel tree I found under the kids' trampoline, a pomegranate tree I bought online, some Egyptian walking onion bulbils I'd grown the before, and some wild strawberries from the front of the house. Thanks to what was already in my compost - and the power of nature - we had the spontaneous growth of chard, kale, various yellow-flowered mustards, amaranth, courgettes, runner beans, wild garlic, yarrow and all sorts of other medicinal or edible stuff. It was an insect paradise - and I'm waiting excitedly to see what's going to pop up this year. We've already got quite a lot of ground ivy which I know is considered a weed by some, but it both beautiful and potentially medicinal. I do realise though that mixed hugels are nowhere near as productive as I'd like them to be and so I've planted a load of annual seeds. I've also bought your book and am now going through all your videos - which I love. I'm number 56 on the allotment list here in Brighton, and so, in the meantime, I'm planning to plant up some side beds of my garden and install two new raised beds, which I'll plant up with your annual polycultures. My hugel does take up most of what was the lawn, and the trampoline has been replaced by another lockdown project: a 8m-diameter natural swimming pond - which is yet to be lined, filled and planted. However, my husband and five (nearly all grown-up) offspring are reluctant when it comes to losing all the space to food production. Keep up the good work!
What a happy video to start the day, a joy to watch! And all the coincidences: my husband's birthday is today, and my son's name is Sebastián.
All is well in the world!
Saludos from Tacoma, Washington state!
That's a lovely coincidence! Happy birthday to your husband too!
Watched this a year after it was published and so shocked this garden is being dismantled. I started following u because you're doing something different than the more popular gardening accounts. And u were focused on soil as so many others are just focused on the plants. Can't wait to see how ur space develops from this point forward! Onto another of your videos! Still love your account and enjoy seeing your family!
Hi Ash, thanks for following! The higgled was just a very small area of our 1/4 acre garden :) I'm currently planting winter squash here again and the soil looks awesome! They'll need zero additional feeding, I'm sure!
Nice video! I love watching others work LOL
And I had to laugh at my slightly horrified first reaction to your husband actually blowing out candles on a cake others are going to eat 🤣😷
All my food forest portions of my property MUST be mulched with 5-8" of wood chips every year. This is the only way for me to keep on top of invading grasses. I then still have to go and yank out whatever grasses are able to crop up through it. It's tough but manageable. Also a hard edge with a strip of concrete / stone to prevent stuff creeping in has helped a lot
This was really informative! Thank you 🌻 also warm birthday wishes to your hubby!🇨🇦🌻 a garden definitely grows so much better when there’s male and female hands in the dirt😆 (I couldn’t resist the pollinating humour🤪♥️)
Haha, very true :)
New sub, what a lovely family! Hello from Australia 🤚🏼
Happy birthday to your husband.
Happy birthday Camera guy. ☺️🎉🎊
Wonderful video!
Excellent video!
the channel referenced here (about the greenhouse strawberries): czcams.com/channels/Ij7oH8IJ_Bv-G1RyZikhgQ.html
Lol.... my husband would agree with the sentiment that married to me is also not very glamorous 😂😅. Happy Birthday to your husband.
Great info as always!! Thanks for sharing
Thank you! Fortunately over time he came to enjoy gardening too :)
Happy birthday, Tillykke as the vikings say. Lovely to see the family at work together. 😊🎉🎊🎂🎈
Tussen takk, Johnny! Do you know I met my husband while we both studied in Oslo? :)
@@GrownToCook no, not at all, how wonderful is that. I was in Oslo last summer it's beautiful.
This video really made me smile. A belated happy birthday to your hubby. Btw, my husband celebrated his birthday on Feb 27th and also asked for homemade pizza.
That’s so lovely! Happy birthday to your husband too!
@@GrownToCook thank you!😊
What a sweet family! I love all you guys!! Warmly from my garden in Costa Mesa, California. #CastleofCostaMesa
Thank you!!
Happy birthday to your husband
Public marriage and adoption proposals aside, thank you to Remko (spelling?) for his continued video skills. Heartfelt wishes for a good birthday!
awww happy video :)
Hey, if u want to get rid of the grass u just gotta rake it into its own pile >> then let it dry a bit >> turn the pile once a week until its crispy >> then bury the pile a foot down = no more grass. Plant something else in its place, caz if you don't nature will.
Bare Earth is dead Earth
Basically ur just raking the grass into a pile.. it's going to try and grow, but it's not in the ground. It will just hardly/barely grow, expend all it's energy & crisp up. All the seeds will sprout inside the pile caz it's moist and slightly warm. Then u compost it to get the remaining seeds.
Happy birthday!
For me and that time in my Life , Hugel culture are not efficient. I do put branches 1 to 2" at the base of my raised bed to save on the use of soil. Thank you for your teaching... God Bless.
I love this ☀️❤️
😊 Happy 🎉🎂 birthday
Love your videos ❤️ 🌱 🪴 🌸
Hahaha, grappig Vera :-) En interessant, natuurlijk, zoals altijd.
Dankjewel, Laurence! Gelukkig vindt Remco tegenwoordig tuinieren ook echt leuk ;)
Toffe video! Zo zien we eens wie er allemaal achter de schermen meewerkt!
Haha, mijn zoon alleen bij wijze van uitzondering :) Maar Romeo vindt tuinieren gelukkig wel leuk
Thumbs up, of course!
When i first saw a hugelculture bed being made i thought it was an awful lot of work to go threw for not that much help i think its a waste of time you can accomplish the same thing much easier.Great video and happy birthday.
Thanks! Yeah, I think making a hugelbed is only a good idea if you have wood that needs decomposing and as in our case, also soil that needs to go somewhere.
Blue Jays cap!! Hello from Toronto!
It's his souvenir from 2 years ago when we travelled to Canada with our daughter who went to study at Queen's University :)
Very cool
I came here to learn about gardening that is all nothing more. Your husband have a lovely wife.
Your husband is a very handsome guy, just what you deserve, all the best from UK
Such a wonderful family (including your vegan godson)!♡ Also, I am happy for you that you did not find any rats! ♡
Sending love from Washington state, USA ♡♡♡
happy birthday
This is so sweet
Carob has good health benefits and I personally prefer the flavor ❣️
The hijinks!!! I'm here for the goofyiness... lol.
The two are so goofy :)
I give you a 10 for this video.
Nice video and family, but I’m still not sure why you dismantled the Hugogarden?
The purpose of it was basically to compost large pieces of wood and that was already well on the way. Besides, the problem was that it got invaded by some perennial weeds and it was impossible to get rid of them as the where entangled with the roots of other plants. So we spread out the (mostly composted) material and covered it with cardboard to kill the weeds. I grew some winter squash there
Thanks for inspiring me to start a hugel bed!
Karl, one tip for you, don't bury a pile of wood. One big mistake many make is building a pile of wood, covering it with smaller diameter branches, then covering the whole thing with soil, which many people teach and which looks to have been done here based on the video footage. Instead make sure that you put down the logs with space between them then fill that space with soil before adding more logs on top with spaces and then fill that with soil....repeat until you reach your desired height and then use any small branches as a mulch on top of the soil. In this way you will not have any nitrogen loss issues and your plants will have no problems finding places for their roots to grow. I've listened to Sepp Holzer correct people on this misconception. Wood in soil works amazingly if folks follow the "wood in soil" not "soil on wood" rule. I hope this helps!
Maybe add nitrogen rich material (manure or urine) or plant nitrogen fixing plants or nurse trees at the start and chop n drop
@@gregmartin3984 the trick is to bury hot (uncomposted) chicken manure in layers with the wood, stopping a foot below the top, so you don't burn the plants.
Happy Cakeday!
Good
7.5 is good! Wish my son would say the same!
I was pleasantly surprised:)
Here's a good article describing hugel beds and their intended function (creating soil)--really meant for annual plantings during the first several years (according to Sep Holzer), and then later, perennials once the mounds have flattened out. This would allow you to use mulch to suppress weeds at first, or seed a series of weed-suppressing cover crops. But navigating around herbaceous perennials at the onset would cause the troubles you have. www.permaculturenews.org/2015/11/06/dont-try-building-hugel-swales-this-is-a-very-and-i-mean-very-bad-idea/
I have 4 books by Sepp Holzer and we visited his farm Krametrhoff in 2014 where we could see the way he uses his hugelbeds and in what ways they work (or don't). As I say in the video, there were no perennial weeds in the bed when I planted it up. I always stress that it's important not to plant perennials before dealing with perennial weeds. The problem was that over time the weeds crept into the bed from an adjacent area. Unfortunately we have too little time for gardening and are only able to deal with weeds in stages, covering strips of the garden each year (I have videos about that). Its' not that I do not know better but that we lack time and resources :) Anyway, the bed did it's job which was to decompose the wood, there 's very little left!
Did putting down cardboard get rid of the couch grass? The only thing I've found which gets rid of it is digging out every tiny little piece of plants nd root otherwise it spreads underground and spreads elsewhere. It can grow through concrete apparently!
I found couch grass grew into & through the cardboard.
In my experience the cardboard (of sufficiently thick) does get rid off couch grass. It does take the growing season to accomplish though. Maybe try a double layer? Also: I have found that when we put wood chips on top of the cardboard, it decomposed faster and weeds started growing through before they were killed off. So now I do not do this anymore and leave the cardboard bare
I actualy love couch grass...
... Compared to ground elder (Zeveblad/Giersch)😅
Yeah, it is perhaps a little easier to get rid off than ground elder (which we unfortunately have in our backyard - it keeps creeping back from our neighbors' plot)
One big difference between ground elder and couch grass though, you can eat ground elder. Harvesting it while the leaves are still young helps keep it under control.
@@allotmentpermaculture6419 You can eat both actualy. But I don't realy like ground elder.
As long as you cut it short at the beginning, tomatos und other tall plants don't mind it. But for smaler plants...
Also annoying is Screening cinquecoil (griechendes Fingerkraut), especialy between strawberrys...
@@stricknitt0184 Thanks. Didn't know that so I learned something new today and have something to look in to.
Ik wil jou adopteren!
Funny youth!!!!
They’re such goofballs :)
What does " Hugelbed"means? is that " a huge bed " or something else?
Hügel is the German word for Hill 😉
@@Mister_Stork thanks so much. I'm Chinese, my English is bad😭
@@lilyli2460 your English is glorious compared to my Chinese, which doesn't exist! I respect your language skills very much.
@@Fragrantbeard Thanks for your sweet words, highly appreciated👍🌻
Would love your recipe for your vegan chocolate cake (Yay to your godson! go vegan! 🍰❤️)
He does exist.
He very definitely does, he just prefers being on the other side of the camera :)
I think finding a rat’s nest would be quite exciting!
Haha, it would definitely make for an exciting video!
Please add me to your waiting list to marry you. LOL!
Perhaps you should marry the men who asked for your hand and put them to work in the garden!
泥
To much labor anyway
Black plastic over the grass
Do you mean instead of cardboard? We use cardboard as clearance mulch because we try to avoid plastic :)
I bet your husband is a good man 😃 tell him I apologize for asking you to marry me, and I apologize to you as well 😀.
Goodbye and hello
Until next time
So long
And
Farewell
😂 you guys are great