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[https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/gardens/garden-styles-and-types/what-the-heck-is-hugelkultur by Julie Martens Forney HGTV] | [https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/gardens/garden-styles-and-types/what-the-heck-is-hugelkultur by Julie Martens Forney HGTV] | ||
When you build a hugelkultur bed, you layer materials, just like when you put together a compost pile. By layering carbon-rich brown materials (logs, branches, brush), which decompose slowly, with nitrogen-rich greens (weeds, grass clippings) and manure, which decompose quickly, you create a planting bed that’s self-tilling and full of air pockets that help plant roots thrive. | When you build a hugelkultur bed, you layer materials, just like when you put together a compost pile. By layering carbon-rich brown materials (logs, branches, brush), which decompose slowly, with nitrogen-rich greens (weeds, grass clippings) and manure, which decompose quickly, you create a planting bed that’s self-tilling and full of air pockets that help plant roots thrive. | ||
=====Creating a Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed – Lessons Learned===== | |||
[https://compostcollective.org.nz/hugelkultur-lessons-learned/ by Compost Collective 15/6/20] | |||
I would have turfed a bigger base for my hugelkultur bed, turfing at least one extra spade width on each side of the bed, maybe two, I also would have dug long turfs one spade blade wide, with not too much soil attached, so they could easily cover the logs and would stay in place. My turfs were too small and thick and were difficult to position on my steep hugelkultur base. | |||
I also would have kept my turfs separate from my topsoil. I put all of mine on the same tarpaulin to begin with and separated them later. | |||
