How to Create a Hügelkultur Raised Garden
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Let nature establish a thriving ecosystem in your garden using the Hügelkultur technique. Compost, bed prep, and participate in permaculture practices all at the exact same time! My secret to getting happy, healthy plants for years at no extra cost to me!
This is an introduction to using the Hügelkultur style of composting to re-purpose organic materials and create a mounded raised garden bed you can start planting on today.
The layered Hügelkultur system decomposes slowly and naturally and releases nutrients while adding warmth which benefits the plants growing above. This technique can be used to improve soil quality and assist with water retention in the soil as it decomposes.
Check out the podcast episode going into more detail on today's video episode!
E3: Composting Methods, Cost Comparisons, and Earthworms. Oh My!
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For more information on making your own compost:
E2: Introduction to Easy and Affordable Composting
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Don't forget to follow along on Instagram to see what's growing on in the test garden! / turnyourheadandscoff
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Though new to hügelkultur, I'm excited by its potential! Just the savings in off-site brush disposal makes the effort appealing.
Thanks for the helpful video!
I completely agree! I'll be adding a "6 months of growing" video later this month showing how this mound has changed through the season and some collapsed areas I'll re-build by adding and repairing later on. I mainly plan to stuff the interior with leaves and mowed clippings!
Love it! We may transform some of our front yard with this method
Nicely done.
Thanks!
I built a retaining wall with this method today. Took 8 hrs of forging in my woods raking down getting all of mother natures good compost and the composted tree limbs. I’m doing this method around my driveway to help with sore attention and water runoff
WOW! Yes, this video took me 2 full days of labor. It was a long haul across the yard to move these materials to the location where we needed it to be built! Unfortunately, at the time, our mower cart was unavailable or it would have been faster/easier!
Great job, love your ideas here! I've done the digging method and think I'll try this mounding technique here in Georgia - thanks!
I have 2 acres and a lot of it goes under water, so I have less planting space than I want to! I'm planning to expand this idea to other areas the next time I obtain resources (a tree limb falls again).
@@TurnYourHeadandScoff What a great solution for areas that flood! Looking forward to seeing how you use those fallen limbs! :-)
After watching the video, I realized that this is what I have been working on for my garden extension next year. I have been putting down cardboard and sticks. Next on my to do list was to put down grass clippings, then compost. I didn't realize it had a name....
Yes! I had been doing this on some level for awhile. I'd heard a version of this called lasagna gardening years ago but without really large logs and branches. I stumbled across the word around the same time this part of our tree fell down and decided to make the video! Now that I've done this video, I've seen more people doing it. Either the word is more widely known now, or web analytics is guiding me towards similar things!
Very useful, thanks for sharing.
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Building three hugel mounds right now. Was starting to wonder about the erosion. Thanks for the cover crop tip. I think I'm really going to like the mounds but wow are they labor intensive to build!!😳
That's a lot! YES, these are so much work. I am going to be posting a video very soon as I've been filming a couple times a month as the plants have grown and seasons have changed. It's been an amazing addition!
Just a follow up. I did post a rebuild video, but I also decided to use purple top turnip as a cover crop. They lasted into July (over 6 months). I highly recommend them as a cover crop.
I miss living in Texas. I love the community I live in now but there is no place on earth like Texas!!
We're in Central Texas, and the ground here is mostly limestone with a little clay. Our backyard is roughly 70' wide by 32' from back fence to patio, sloping downward toward the house. It was planted in Bermuda by the house builder five years ago (ugh!). We would like the back half of that lawn to be replaced with shrubs and perennials, but I see no real way to deal with the "soil". I think these mounds would be far too high for what we would need, but it is an interesting concept. Something on a lower/smaller scale?
Yes, in my yard the mound resolves a completely different set of issues I face in this location. My landscape design clients in the Austin area use companies that jackhammer out the rock, add soil, and then plant shrubs for their yards if they are directly on rock. However, with slopes, retaining to create tiers may be a way for you to build up and manage growing on your property. I'm sure there are other variables to consider, but definitely don't rush into anything you're not excited to maintain!!!
I'm in southwest Arkansas, the planes. OMG THE FRIGGIN PLANES! The huey's and choppers ( military helicopters) also. They only fly over at 11 pm, and any other time I'm trying to shoot a video!
It's so true. I have to do almost all voice over right now because we have construction on the main road in addition to the planes. I actually get so lost in my garden when I'm out there that I had no idea there was all this noise until I started filming. I'm fully transported when I'm in there!
My husband loves your Mounded raised bed method... I see him making one soon on my property!🤣
Did he ever build one?
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He is clearing land out right now so he has room.. Lots of work for a 70 year old!
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Would you help us to develop this technique for restoring burnt areas and slopes in BC, Canada? We think this technique you showed here could be used to build terraces in slopes to retain water and to speed up the natural processes of regeneration.
Take a look at my more recent video on planting this mound. It shows the active decomposition over about 8 months which will help you decide if this is a good idea for your land.
@@TurnYourHeadandScoff I will. Thank you very much!
Could one be made to hide those green septic mounds?
New subscriber.....is your whole channel based in houston, rx? Reason I ask I want to follow someone who is in the same planting zone as me. I'm in conroe.
So sorry I missed your comment! Yes! we are NW Houston probably 30-60 minutes from you!
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Do you have any moles? We have some in Oregon so I’m wondering if anyone had issues with the mounds.
We do! The rats are much worse, though!
We're in ohio, and moles love these beds. Me and my daughter trained our hens to hunt and eat rodents. It is the only thing that keeps them away for a time. Moles love these beds...
Hi thank you for sharing! What kind o
You're welcome! Feel free to comment again if you meant to ask a question! Only part of your message was posted!
Thank you for sharing ! What kind of mulch would you use in the small bed? Would you get from home depot? Thanks ! God bless!
I used a cypress no float from the Big Box store in this video for the small bed because I wasn't ready to commit to a large bulk delivery at that point. The no float was so finely shredded that it did start covering up my seedlings when it shifted during watering which was frustrating. Very soon after filming this, though, I realized I was spending a ton of time and energy getting carloads of bags and justified buying cedar hardwood chips in bulk from The Ground Up in Houston.
I’m curious if you had any issues with the placement of cardboard under this given you mentioned you get flood events. Were there any issues with the mound shifting during these events?
Luckily, no. I picked the only location that's the tiniest bit higher than the rest of the land already. So, the water flows naturally on both sides without being obstructed. Otherwise, yes, the flow of water would have washed out a considerable portion of the loose soil if it was obstructing.
I m going to makr one like that.
I got some ghost airplanes here too 😮😂
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Do you have updates of how this has done for you?
Yes! I have a 9 month progression (link below), and I'll have a re-build video posting later this spring. The mound worked so well for about 8 months and grew a lot of flowers and food. Eventually the drought in our area caused some collapse. It was very easy to use dead plants after our freeze this winter to repair the surface and add soil on top to replant. czcams.com/video/jSlnGNlaRNM/video.html
what about wood chips on top
Wood chips are a great option for colder climates. Houston has year-round growing, so if I'm not planting something, the weeds will takeover! That actually would have been okay if I was just raising an area and didn't want to plant since our weeds are just native grasses and perennials. Additionally, this mound was only made from leftovers in the yard (fallen tree limbs, grass clippings, worn out soil, compost that wasn't fresh), so wood chips would have been a costly addition especially at the thickness needed to suppress weeds.
The only downside I have seen from these types of beds is that they are mole lairs. All those voids and easy digging attract those buggers like crazy...
I was very concerned about rats living in this. I tried to make sure my wood was set up tightly with small branches filling many gaps in the bottom layer. I was lucky we didn't have any critters call it home. We do have critters everywhere else, though! This is actually a year without moles, but we have our first gophers wreaking havoc in the main garden. We're trying to set traps, but it's been easier to catch them in the rain when their holes are flooded, and the dogs can find them above ground!
I think you need to be a little more careful about what kind of materials you're growing your edibles in. Like, you cant just dump any old wood down as there are many species that are literally poisonous or release an oil that inhibits plant growth. Straw should only be utilized from sources which have not used glyphosphate, etc.....
Great point! I have a few episode on my Podcast that describe my property and it's challenges. We've spent a lot of time and money learning about every inch of our land, and luckily, I'm a garden/horticulture nerd!
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