How To Make a Hugelkultur Bed

Hugelkultur is a centuries old practice used in permaculture that essentially creates a living compost pile in your growing bed.
Hugelkultur beds have lots of amazing benefits likes helping with water retention, holding on to nutrients and even raising the soil temperature!
Here’s Vicky with easy steps on how you can create a Hugelkultur bed in your garden.
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I'm not working with much space
But I dug down far as I could - 3 feet sounds not so deep but it is for clay
I built up about a foot of an interwoven core with tons of sticks - puzzled em together to fit as much as possible
Filled in the soil
Later I dug down 2 feet to the old core & added another tight bundle of stick jenga
Got my little scythe & got 4 biiiiiig bundles of dry tall grass - u can pack as much as u can carry into a very small space.
& then I just recently raked 6 inches of soil back to build a third core layer .
Highly reccomend going crazy with cores. U can set aside a bed just for building soil. Stretching & balancing store bought soil out by a lot.
Pop some potatoes or Jerusalem artichokes or ginger or garlic in there in the meantime. Very fun to know thats all getting eaten up by worms.
Only way i know of to really improve drainage - also depending on ur area it would either increase or decrease drainage to your needs
depending on what ur burying