Permaculture? What is it? Well I’m still learning to answer that question for myself, but basically it’s designing our environment more like nature. When we mimic nature our gardens will thrive and be more self sustaining. We help the soil along by providing more materials like compost, clippings, mulch and in the case of Hugelkulture we bury wood.
It is my goal to use my farm in a more sustainable way. Or as a gardening buddy of mine on Google+, +Dan Grubbs, says “regenerative”. The idea of restoring our land to a more fertile and fruitful existence.
This is all new to me too. I’m learning right along side you. Here is my first experiment with Hugelkulture. As the experiment goes along I’ll add pictures and video to this post. So, bookmark it and come back! 🙂
Watch this video 🙂
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| Starting the Hugelkulture Bed – Daddykirbs Garden Blog |
This next video shows some of the “next steps” I took to make this bed work better.
Finally I was able to plant the beds. Check out my berry bush plants going in in this video.
Since that first bed felt so good… I built a second. Here is a series of pics for that second bed.
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| Daddykirbs Garden: Hugel Bed #2 Logs covers with mulch – view from the South |
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| Daddykirbs Garden: Hugel Bed #2 Logs covers with mulch – view from the North |
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| Daddykirbs Garden: Hugel Bed #2 Covered with first layer of dirt |
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| Daddykirbs Garden: Hugel Bed #2 Layered with horse manure compost |
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| Daddykirbs Garden: Hugel Bed #2 Layered with horse manure compost – view from the South (Awesome shot of my beautiful little ‘bota in the background) |
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| Daddykirbs Garden: Hugel Bed #2 Layered with horse manure compost |
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| Daddykirbs Garden: Hugel Bed #2 Final layer of mulch/dirt blend. |
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The bed looks awesome, Blake. Good luck with it and keep us all posted on how the berries do. I’m going to be planting mine with ‘three sisters’ this year as an experiment and see just how the sweet corn, squash and pole beans do. I’m also pretty sure I’ll be planting my melons in a hugelkultur bed, too.
Thanks Dan, Yeah I’ll update when I plant the bed. I look forward to seeing your Hugels too 🙂
Very informative. Wish I had more land then .2 acres. Like the principle.
You seem to do a lot on your .2 acres. Your gardens seem to do really well. I appreciate your comments.
Great bed! I’ve got to get me some of that equipment. Makes jobs like this so much easier.
That little tractor has saved my back 1000 times over.
Great update, Blake.
Thanks, Dan. Sometimes I forget to snap the pics… this time I remembered after I added mulch to the pile of logs.