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[https://hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/what-is-hugelkultur/ by Hartley Magazine] | [https://hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/what-is-hugelkultur/ by Hartley Magazine] | ||
Jean Vernon is an award-winning garden writer and winner of The Beth Chatto Environmental award from The Garden Media Guild in 2020 for her writing about bees. She has a passion for wildlife and especially pollinators. She gardens with nature in her greenhouse and garden and writes for a number of national gardening magazines and newspapers. | Jean Vernon is an award-winning garden writer and winner of The Beth Chatto Environmental award from The Garden Media Guild in 2020 for her writing about bees. She has a passion for wildlife and especially pollinators. She gardens with nature in her greenhouse and garden and writes for a number of national gardening magazines and newspapers. | ||
=====Sustainable Landscapes: Creating a Hügelkultur for Gardening with Stormwater Management Benefits===== | |||
[https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/sustainable-landscapes-creating-a-hugelkultur-for-gardening-with-stormwater-management-benefits.html by Qing Lana Luo, Casey Hentges, Carmen Wright 2020 EXTENSION] | |||
“Hügelkultur” (pronounced hyoo-gul-kulture) is a German word that means mound culture or hill culture. A hügelkultur is a sloped and raised planting bed filled with topsoil, wood, and organic materials. German and European people have practiced it as a gardening method for hundreds of years. Illustration 1 shows what a typical hügelkultur in the field looks like. A well-built hügelkultur is a self-watered, self-composting raised garden with few irrigation and fertilization needs. This garden bed is perfectly designed to capture rainwater runoff for sustainable stormwater management and can serve as a windbreak. | |||
