The Basic Principles Behind Building Hugelkultur Raised Bed Gardens
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- In this video Dan from www.plantabunda... shares with you his thoughts and opinions regarding the construction of hugelkultur raised beds as a way to grow food and sequester carbon using the available biomass on your property.
Please come back. You are the first gardener I learned from when I started gardening. Miss your wiseness much.
I just watched my own video 3 years later here in 2020. I had to laugh at the number of times I said "hugelkultur"... hugelkultur, hugelkultur, hugelkultur...lol
Nice!
You said hugelkultur alot but this is the first I've heard about it and this video blew my mind. Watched this video 4 times to gleam all the info. Going to build one this spring!!
Cool. I live on a sandbar on the Pacific Ocean. I am doing hugelkulture under the raised beds and inside them for 2 layers of protection from the samd leeching water and nutrients. We built a huge 4 bay compost and I put Hugelkulture underneath it as well. I got an Earthwise chipper shredder and mulcher. Love the thing.
I am doing seaweed compost. Found the Motherload of washed up seaweed yesterday and took my pack basket down the beach carrying load after load home. I need greens to put in the Hugelkulture as well. The lot next door sold and they cut down all the trees and shrubs and left a bunch.I have an endless supply of branches, rotted wood in various stages of decomposition, nice forest floor soil to use before they start building. Fun to walk around the neighborhood with a pack basket full of sticks for the chipper.
Hügelbeet lol I am German and familiar with this kind of gardening. The decomposing material adds also some warmth, which is great in colder areas. Plus you increase the surface area.
It was all good. Didn't notice.
That's so clear and crisp, to the point, no nonsense, he'll of a video. Did I like it? Nope, I loved it. We had a severe cyclone a year ago destroying all my big trees. I never knew what to do with so much wood and that's when I read up hugel kultur. Thankfully, all the remains of my beloved trees are respectfully buried now in my garden, as a part of my hugel kultur beds.
I just love your narration! 👍😀
I'm starting my new gardening area on the property we moved to 3 years ago. We've had an accidental Hugelkulture patch at the front of the property that grows bonus plants(comfrey, poppies, daffodils, and borage) where the excavators dumped soil, grass, and a pile of dumped branches when they cut out the road. Our old property had trees with lots of limb loss and I had cut them up for firewood. When we moved I brought a load of that firewood to the new property, since there is no woody foliage growing on the site, only grass, and unexpected incidentals. Unfortunately we are besot with winds (gale forced) most days. Outdoor fires would just be reckless, so the pile of firewood has sat covered. Bring on the Hugelkulture!
The raised beds I'm using are 2 1/2 feet off of the ground, and 2 more feet to the rim, so that I don't have to kneel as I age with the garden. The bottom of the beds are expanded metal so there is drainage. I've split some of the logs so they are about 6 inches tall and placed the flat sides to the bottom, covering the entire surface. I'm assuming the logs will hold enough moisture to help combat wind loss, along with tarps I'll be using on the fencing to block wind. Over the logs I'll cover with homemade compost, then finish with a garden mix soil to the top. I'm using the 7 raised beds for vegetables, and intend to add leaves from my neighbor's orchard to replenish the soil in the Autumn, then composted soil to replenish loss in the Spring. I still have leftover logs for future use if necessary, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
Thanks for another great video Dan! Almost every raised bed in my garden is a hugelkultur. Here in Tx, it really seems to help with retention of moisture in the soil.
Thanks for this video/tutorial. I'm planning on dropping a small dead tree in my backyard, and now I have a use for it that doesn't include renting a wood chipper :)
Fellow HUGELKULTUR enthusiast here! !! This was a pleasure to watch (again :)
Keep up the good work!
This is the very best video that I have seen on this subject. I appreciate you for sharing your knowledge. Thank you.
Answered alot of questions fast
Hi from 2020, so far this is still true :)
Really nice discussion on this! Great shots showing how well it works for you!
Wow, the mounds lowering 2 feet a year is crazy! I just built two and barely made a dent in the log pile being generated by my trees. This is great info!
Thats composting down of the pile more than 1/2 meter a year 😮
Really good explanation! I like the way you garden a lot and I love that you put all this effort in your video channel. Keep up the good work!
Greetings from germany,
Anne
I am so glad I found your channel, I wanted to know if you would be willing to sees share. I am just getting started with my garden and I am slowly setting up everything. Please let me know if you would be willing to do so. I would ever be so grateful. Both of you are fantastic and I love learning with you all. I truly appreciate your content and knowledge.
Thank you again Dan. I don't know how many years you have been doing this, but it is wonderful to be able to use all your knowledge to help out when I start my own garden next year. I can spend this year getting everything ready. Thank you! You are much appreciated.
This is a well made video with an excellent narrative. Thank you for sharing. It’s inspiring
What a beautiful garden! Thank you. Nice summation if the process and what to use and expect 😊
Hey Dan! Finally we are currently building our own Huglekultur beds thanks to you! You have been my inspiration to get into permaculture and here I am, building them! Thanks a ton for your inspiration and for your informative vids! I hope you are well and keep the vids coming!
Thank you for having CC. I am having hearing problems since surgery.
Adapt this for a no dig permaculture lasagna method? Make walls and floor of bed with logs. Fill with compost, topsoil, mulch, logs, rocks, sticks, leaves, coffee grounds, moose shit, whatever. Cover with turf. Plant mixture of perennials and annuals of different heights to get different mixtures of light and shade and leave for a few years. Tolerate weeds unless they are invasive non-native species or getting too tall and blocking the light and rain, in which case just chop and drop. Weeds on the whole are good, they enrich and build the soil.
Thank you for this comment. I'm going to use the overgrown weeds to add to my hugelkultur bed.
Great info, as always. I just recently found you. Not only is your info helpful, but also thought provoking! Just realized I can use this method on a part of my garden to maximize growth and use the logs to help prevent weed growth, for a while. (I live on a prairie in N. Idaho…prairie grass is a nightmare to control!)
So, THANK YOU SO MUCH! Looking forward to more great content :)
Also, thanks for the quick and orderly explanation with clear demonstration. Home gardeners tend to be so chatty and it's hard to follow.
I found this video to be a really easy way to share the concept with my cousin, who just moved to a new state and needs to restart his garden. Elevated gardens are perfect for our stage of life and the hugelkultur method would be ideal for him to use since he has a lot of yard cleanup to do at the new place.
My husband and I use elevated beds to save me from more back pain, but we have a large space that this method would work well for. We have a farm and always have lots of wood and compost material to use. Can’t wait to try it this year!
That native soil looks great i wish it looked like that in florida aswell
Thanks again. Towards more plant abundance ! Keep safe and let us keep on planting!
Subscribed! Thank you so much for this video, echoing many others’ comments, this is one of the best and most comprehensive video on hugelkultur I’ve seen! We are moving to a new house soon and I will implement these there. Our large sloping backyard needs some leveling off and ability to collect water - hugel beds as berms to swales is one of my thoughts!
good explanation of the theory and technique
very informative - thanks, I'll give it a go. All the best to you from sunny Cyprus!
We just planted our first hugelkulture beds today! Aided by our landlady and the gardener/ landscapers who designed our food forest. So am getting myself educated... Your produce looks amazing!!!!
You have a landscaper and a gardener ???
I love the videos Dan and your simple, clear way of teaching. Could you explain a little more about why you chose hugelkulture over biochar? Thanks :)
It really helps me conserve water - a big issue in Central California.
great video. makes everything crytsal clear.
It becomes such a naturally beautiful bed!
Take a shot every time he says "hugelkultur" 😂
Let me guess
Vodka
Help, I've got alcohol poisoning now.
Thanks for getting right to the point. Great information.
Great video. Thank you for all the information on the topic.
Thank you for this video. GREAT. Greetings from Curaçao
Amazing video... Most detailed and consise on the subject
I caught on to this idea after having to rent a dumpster to get rid of yard waste. Wish I could have found it sooner. Thanks for the info!
I have 15 small (11ft x 6 ft) beds. Can I just trench the center, put in logs, leaves, food scraps, sawdust, coffee grounds, etc..cover and plant in, instead of building a traditional, raised bed hugelculture mound? Kind of a hybrid hugelculture/lasagna gardening method...Thanks
Did you try out your method, yet,?
Thanks, great video! Very inspirational!
Instant sub. Great video! Many thanks!
Thank you for this video, informative and very well presented. Great info!
Great video. Excellent explanation.
Thanks for your info on this system. Combined with core gardening, and then finishing with at least 4 weekly applications of JMS and JLF during the heat of summer, is going to be just what this dead soil out here in the mid-high valley of the Mohave desert needs to help loosen up the soil, build up the beneficial local micro organisms and build up local bio available nutrients for a fall/winter garden possibly, for sure in the spring. We won't be out of the 100's until the end of September, at the earliest. At rare times I've seen them last until early to mid November.
The only issue with the resources out here for this system is you MUST make sure that they are completely dried out and chipped if possible. Because most of the plants that can be used, while they grow like gang busters here in the desert, the are highly invasive and it doesn't take much for them to gain a foothold. Tamerisk, oleander, cottonwood, Arizona ash, palm, castor bean. The first two are the fastest growing, but are also the most aggressive when it comes to reproduction.
I have hugelkultur mounds in my backyard. It was the easiest way to dispose of the dead tree from my front yard. In one of my h-mounds, I constructed it purely out of branches trimmed off the shrubs in the front yard. Some of those branches were sticking out of the mound, and began to grow leaves. It might be wise not to put shrub branches in the h-mound. I cut a 9 inch piece of one of these shrub branches to display a label for a tree. That 9 inch stick grew leaves and roots. I planted it elsewhere to see if it grows. I am dealing with heavy soil with clay, and after 2 years of trying to grow in this unsuitable dirt, I decided to invest a couple of years of transforming the heavy soil into rich soil. This house I bought a while back was a rental for decades, and so I am pioneering this property from weed heaven to a fertile garden. Last October, I planted cover crops (radish, peas, sunflower, clover, and parsley). The greens from the radish plants were huge, and excellent for my compost pile and mulch for the banana plants. The clover has beautiful flowers and lots of roots. The rolly-polly bugs and snails ate most of my sunflower sprouts. I'll have to experiment on how to start sunflowers. Right now, if I see a sunflower sprout, I water it and put a glass over it to keep off the pests.
I tried this about two months ago in our spring (Australia) with a raised bed and tomatoes. My layers are: cardboard liner (unfolded box with tape/labels removed) flat on the ground, twigs and branches from our large Chinese elm tree (bottom half), good soil from the front yard near large tree (quarter), compost, leaves and some garden centre organic mix (quarter). I then planted some tomatoes, staked them, watered them and mulched with sugar cane mulch (one and a half inches). The tomatoes are growing great and have plenty of flowers with fruit just starting to form. I am definitely a huge fan of hugelkultur now. I've just started up another hugelkultur bed for strawberries, built with a similar mixture of layers. The main advantages are (1) wonderful moisture retention (reduced need to water) and (2) organic filler to save filling costs. The growing medium is always moist. It never dries out so I don't have to be anxious about forgetting to water.
Try inoculating any wood with mycelium. Breaks wood and compost down faster while locking nutrients in soil
Bless you brother.
Excellent video. Thanks very much for sharing!
Great information! Thanks!
Thank you
awesome explanation , thanks
Thank you! I enjoy your video!
been meaning to try this
I have been practicing this kind of agriculture in my tiny garden, from the fact that I have a tiny garden and no place to make compost so I would bury my old plants from the bed in the same bed, and I would immediately sow new seeds again
Excellent straightforward useful information for the average gardener.
Thank you
Beautiful work!
Fantastic! Thanks
Thank you!
Awesome!
Love your channel brother! I've helped a few people build their hugelkultur beds but have never seen the outcome. I'm on a piece of land now that is perfect for this. Our land hosts are not quite sure about it but are willing to experiment so I want to make sure we get it right the first time! They want to grow corn and zucchini to start but I've read that corn doesn't do well on a hugelkultur bed. What would your move be if those were the only plants they are willing to experiment with?
awesome video... do you have to supplment your garden with manure or any other fertilzer?
Right on thanks. Excited to get started and get rid of my rotting apple tree wood.
Thank you.
okay, im gonna try this.
great stuff man, inspiring.
Thanks for your nice information.
I've 2 Qustion about Hugelkulture..
1) Do I need add any kinds of compost or something In raised bed (hugelkulture) in one year to 2 years??
2)How long time I can used hugulkulture bed for vegetable garden?? Can I reused it??
3) Is there any kinds of maintainence after making hugelkulture bed??
Great info and video
Have you had success with partial shade?
Awesome video...
I use piles of sunflower stalks too
Nice tips. I was curious how much they sink down. We were considering adding branches into some of our new raised beds (can't afford 136 cubic feet of premium compost but can afford to throw in old rotting branches from around the property). In your opinion how well do they produce in comparison to your standard bed? I'm still trying to get a grasp on how well these things really work. We like the idea because it's cost effective but are unsure about how well they produce
City to Farm I've tried it in raised beds. Plants are much healthier. I vote yes in pots, raised beds, and ground.
Jaq Clark Thanks for the feedback!
City to Farm I've moved many of my new raised beds to be hugelkultur to help retain water because of the dry climate. They did sink a bit but I didn't have many logs or branches. Good luck if you go for it!
Great video sir
Thanks bud. Great job.
I’m still trying to just learn to say it.
“Who-gull-culture”. I think I have it now!
Now say it 3 X's fast! lol... : )
Que show! Grata por compartilhar conosco.
Great directions on how to do this! Thank you so much! Is there certain wood that is better or worse than others to use for this?
Great video! Thanks!
Great video. many thanks
Thank you very much
I have only heard of this type of growing recently. I am thinking of buying a piece of land, around 2.5 acres, with standing woods on about 2 of those acres, on a fairly steep hillside (about 30 to 40 degree slope). Can this method be used to create create terraced gardens on the hillside using already downed logs and logs and debris that I cut out to thin the canopy? I was thinking of starting with plants requiring less light and, as I thin the canopy in areas, to plant things requiring more light. My goal is to have a fruit, berry and herb woodland...
don't plant large tree on the mound, put them beside it or dig a hugel ring and plat them in the middle. Trees will get blown down if the roots are in the mound.
Seems to me you can increase log rot by drilling holes into a log. We do that to rot out tree stumps. Also, dump saw dust into the bed. Why not just use all saw dust? I used to live near a wood working shop. The owner always had a hard time find ways to get rid of his saw dust. He would use it for his smoker BBQ. Just an idea.
It may be helpful to dig down to the water table so the biggest logs are down at water level. May make it more draught tolerant?
I have this old apple tree that is dying but can't be chopped down. We took off lots of branches and let the apples drop. We're going to try a hugelkultur mound. Does this seem like an effective approach: dig a shallow trench, line with cardboard (to block tree rhyzomes), lay the long and largest branches, throw on some dirt to trickle through, then add the useless apples and other kitchen scraps, then layer with leaves and other brown material. So, it's kind of like a compost mound with large branches at the bottom. Hope to grow my rhubarb there next season. Any suggestions or warnings?
How do you use the final rotted logs..
Can Manzanita and pine be used ?
Question. How long does it take to brake down?
I have taken down some year 1 and 2 trees in their place i wanted to put some raised beds, using the Hugel method do i need to dig the roots out? these branches are 2 or 3inch diamiter can i use these or shal i wait till they are one year old before putting them in my beds?
I built one a few years ago. My issue was MICE & VOLES eating my plants.. any ideas? (The cats can't get them, and we did stab the bed with a pitchfork, to no avail). 😵
hi all, can i use freshly dug out thuja occidentalis to put as a base of my planned hugekulture or would it make it too acidic... thanks for your tips
Is there a type of wood that you recommend? Hard or soft? Pine or oak?
thanks man
Would it be wise to start my mound in a low spot in my yard?
Can I use bamboo (it’s not an invasive kind) instead of wood?
If older, slightly decomposed wood is good, and fresh wood is not so good - what about seasoned, dried wood? I have a bunch of wood I cut up for firewood about three years ago but for various reasons I decided I no longer want to burn it. So it's old, but dry? Would there be any concerns in using this (aside presumably from the fact that it'll take a bit longer for it to start breaking down)? Thanks!
Seasoned dry wood will work great!
@@plantabundance Thanks for the super fast reply! Here in Ireland - where it is (somewhat characteristically) very wet right now. I was thinking I could fill my bed with the wood and leave it have a good soak for a while.
My only other concern is that I *think* it's some form of laurel. Apparently laurel can contain a lot of cyanide, especially in the leaves. Which is a bit of a shocker... not so sure about the timber, and seasoned timber at that. Trying to figure out if this is a concern.
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Where are you? What climate are you in?
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I had to look up Hugelkultur to understand what it is.
Does anyone not notice the shoe glove thing he's wearing?