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[https://home.howstuffworks.com/gardening/garden-design/hugelkultur.htm by Kate Morgan 16/1/24 howstuffworks] | [https://home.howstuffworks.com/gardening/garden-design/hugelkultur.htm by Kate Morgan 16/1/24 howstuffworks] | ||
Hügelkultur, pronounced HYOO-gle-culture, is a German word meaning "hill culture." It's a gardening method that's hundreds of years old, but was first widely written about in the 1960s. It uses rotting wood and organic material, topped with compost and soil, to create mounds that retain moisture and supply plants with nutrients. | Hügelkultur, pronounced HYOO-gle-culture, is a German word meaning "hill culture." It's a gardening method that's hundreds of years old, but was first widely written about in the 1960s. It uses rotting wood and organic material, topped with compost and soil, to create mounds that retain moisture and supply plants with nutrients. | ||
=====How to Make Hugelkultur Beds for Growing Vegetables===== | |||
[https://www.growveg.com/guides/how-to-make-hugelkultur-beds-for-growing-vegetables/ by Barbara Pleasant 17/12/20mGrowVeg] | |||
But change is good, and due to a convergence of events, I find myself on the verge of hugeling. This past spring after renovating several terraced beds, the poor things looked sadly sunken, and we’d like to avoid the volume issue next year, when we redo two more beds. The beds are being dug out anyway and I have plenty of woody materials on hand, so I plan to gain the 12 inches (30cm) of loft I need at the bottom of the beds using hügelkultur methods. | |||
