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Hugelkultur, translated as “hill culture” in the German language, is a sustainable agriculture technique that uses woody materials, such as logs and twigs to grow a garden or a farm. Essentially, hugelkultur is nothing more than wood buried in soil that you grow plants on top of. These plants can consist of plants of all sorts, including annual and biennial vegetables and herbs, and perennial plants such as fruit trees. Hugelkultur beds can be made into raised beds and terraces. | Hugelkultur, translated as “hill culture” in the German language, is a sustainable agriculture technique that uses woody materials, such as logs and twigs to grow a garden or a farm. Essentially, hugelkultur is nothing more than wood buried in soil that you grow plants on top of. These plants can consist of plants of all sorts, including annual and biennial vegetables and herbs, and perennial plants such as fruit trees. Hugelkultur beds can be made into raised beds and terraces. | ||
=====Hügelkultur & Raised Bed Building===== | |||
[https://www.gurneys.com/pages/ybyg-hugelkultur-and-raised-bed-building?srsltid=AfmBOooOTO7lfs6dZFMwyCps4T4U49K8v0MnvQ3qo2Ovcsxl2xV60Qv8 by GURNEY'S] | |||
You can use just about anything EXCEPT old railroad ties or pressure treated wood. Naturally rot-resistant cedar landscape timbers are a popular choice; and metal frames are the good-looking new kids on the block. There are composite materials like Trex, which looks like lumber but is made of half recycled wood scraps and half recycled plastic, which is what my beds are framed with. The boards will last forever, and I really like the idea of buying the end stage result of recycling--especially keeping the plastic component out of our oceans and landfills. And many people just buy untreated pine landscape timbers, which like my rotting staves, will eventually become soil. | |||
