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hugelkultur
By: The Dudely Lama Date: May 31, 2020, 1:00 pm
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ive struggled with various ideas to deal with the significant
increase of dead and fallen trees in the aftermath of michael...
burning or hauling them off makes no sense to me, (but then
neither does raking leaves or shoveling snow). i wanted to
keep the carbon and nutrients in the ground, where they can be
used... so we built a deep hugel... zone a, right in front
of the house, i have four fenced paddocks... what used to be
“stallion” pastures for studs... to keep them from the mares
and provide a breeding area, about 2 acres each. made an
A-frame with a level attached and marked out the contours of the
top of the hill for the first one. backhoe used to cut out a
trench, on contour, 5 feet deep, 6 feet wide, the full length of
the hugelkultur. we began filling the trench by mixing in
layers of logs, branches, twigs, leaves, rotting and composted
hay, freshly cut green things weeds/thistle/fence line
trimmings, (fix two birds with one bandaid), mushroom compost,
dirt, sand, clay, and lastly the sod, upside down, covered with!
shit! i almost forgot the best part! shit! horse shit!
llama shit! theres almost two cubic yards of rich black-brown
equine feces blended with the very finest offal offerings from
our organically raised, grass fed, stress free, free range, no
antibiotic, non-spitting... (ok, rarely... but you’ll never see
the cue..) gong bath attending llamas...
oh yeah... sod, upside down, covered with a 5” deep layer of
mushroom compost and topsoil and a layer of rotting hay for
mulch...
#Post#: 5261--------------------------------------------------
Re: hugelkultur
By: AJ Date: May 31, 2020, 3:01 pm
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[quote author=The Dudely Lama link=topic=590.msg5260#msg5260
date=1590948037]
ive struggled with various ideas to deal with the significant
increase of dead and fallen trees in the aftermath of michael...
burning or hauling them off makes no sense to me, (but then
neither does raking leaves or shoveling snow). i wanted to
keep the carbon and nutrients in the ground, where they can be
used... so we built a deep hugel... zone a, right in front
of the house, i have four fenced paddocks... what used to be
“stallion” pastures for studs... to keep them from the mares
and provide a breeding area, about 2 acres each. made an
A-frame with a level attached and marked out the contours of the
top of the hill for the first one. backhoe used to cut out a
trench, on contour, 5 feet deep, 6 feet wide, the full length of
the hugelkultur. we began filling the trench by mixing in
layers of logs, branches, twigs, leaves, rotting and composted
hay, freshly cut green things weeds/thistle/fence line
trimmings, (fix two birds with one bandaid), mushroom compost,
dirt, sand, clay, and lastly the sod, upside down, covered with!
shit! i almost forgot the best part! shit! horse shit!
llama shit! theres almost two cubic yards of rich black-brown
equine feces blended with the very finest offal offerings from
our organically raised, grass fed, stress free, free range, no
antibiotic, non-spitting... (ok, rarely... but you’ll never see
the cue..) gong bath attending llamas...
oh yeah... sod, upside down, covered with a 5” deep layer of
mushroom compost and topsoil and a layer of rotting hay for
mulch...
[/quote]
That' awesome!! Pics?
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Re: hugelkultur
By: The Dudely Lama Date: May 31, 2020, 8:52 pm
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ive tried, but im gonna have to resize everything
#Post#: 5265--------------------------------------------------
Re: hugelkultur
By: AJ Date: June 1, 2020, 6:27 am
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[quote author=The Dudely Lama link=topic=590.msg5263#msg5263
date=1590976366]
ive tried, but im gonna have to resize everything
[/quote]
Sorry. This is a sub par forum for pic posting.
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Re: hugelkultur
By: The Dudely Lama Date: June 1, 2020, 7:58 am
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it more than makes up for that in other ways...
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Re: hugelkultur
By: AJ Date: June 1, 2020, 12:05 pm
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[quote author=The Dudely Lama link=topic=590.msg5266#msg5266
date=1591016285]
it more than makes up for that in other ways...
[/quote]
:) 👍🏻
#Post#: 5330--------------------------------------------------
Re: hugelkultur
By: guest13 Date: June 18, 2020, 6:19 am
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Interesting technique, new to me. What will you grow on it?
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Re: hugelkultur
By: The Dudely Lama Date: June 18, 2020, 6:15 pm
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[quote author=Danocoustic link=topic=590.msg5330#msg5330
date=1592479193]
Interesting technique, new to me. What will you grow on it?
[/quote]
seminole pumpkins in hills at both ends... (prolific climbers,
long vines, and the garden is fenced for horses, let em go on
that fence!), regular pumpkins , crookneck squash, spaghetti
squash, tomatoes, onions, peppers, basil, corn, and beans.
planted a lemon and orange tree with watermelons around the
lemon and muskmelons around the orange. marked out the next
hugel bed and may start digging it this weekend. mine start with
a trench about 5 feet deep, but i have a lot of fallen trees to
use up.
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Re: hugelkultur
By: AJ Date: June 19, 2020, 7:03 am
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[quote author=The Dudely Lama link=topic=590.msg5335#msg5335
date=1592522108]
[quote author=Danocoustic link=topic=590.msg5330#msg5330
date=1592479193]
Interesting technique, new to me. What will you grow on it?
[/quote]
seminole pumpkins in hills at both ends... (prolific climbers,
long vines, and the garden is fenced for horses, let em go on
that fence!), regular pumpkins , crookneck squash, spaghetti
squash, tomatoes, onions, peppers, basil, corn, and beans.
planted a lemon and orange tree with watermelons around the
lemon and muskmelons around the orange. marked out the next
hugel bed and may start digging it this weekend. mine start with
a trench about 5 feet deep, but i have a lot of fallen trees to
use up.
[/quote]
Seminole punkins never surrender. 😄🤘
#Post#: 5992--------------------------------------------------
Re: hugelkultur
By: The Dudely Lama Date: October 18, 2020, 4:06 am
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my garden was a major fail. three cukes... my new trees are
all looking good but the compost i bought was full of
bindweed... i wont plant in it next year until i figure out
what the next step is... dont want to use chemicals. dug and
potted up about 275 date palms last week. at least they all look
good.
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