Should I.... make a hugel (hugelkultur) grow bed in my vegetable garden?
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Not sure whether a hugel bed / hugelkultur is for you? Do you have a lot of spare logs? Do you want to grow food? Does your soil regularly dry out? Aranya offers his thoughts.
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Thanks for making this video on the possibilities of creating an economical permaculture. I would like to read up about this gardener you mentioned, but I did not quite catch the name. Could you please text it here for me? Thank you.❤
Yes of course. It's Sepp Holzer. You'll find plenty about him online.
@@LearnPermaculture Thank you very much. Looking forward to more of the helpful content.
Ive made massive hugal beds on a spare piece of land .. i must admit i jumped on the band wagon before i thought of where i might end up ...i dont regret it in anyway but had i thought first i might of understood i was going to need 1000's of plants to fill the beds ..😂😂😂
It takes a long time for everything to start to break down for some reason this puts people off. Ive no idea why .
Thanks for sharing your experience Dean. Yes, they're a bit of a long term project aren't they?
Thanks for making this content, what would you class as good wood? I have willow, alder, poplar, hazel, ash and only deadwood from the few oaks, each of these decreasing in quantity from the first. I'd like to try an experiment and see what temperatures would work for starting earlier in beds but for my context it has to remain outdoors, I can't create a cover structure.
Any wood that's not been processed into something else and potentially exposed to chemical treatment. If it looks like it's just come off a tree or shrub that works for me. Hugel beds don't get hot in the same way that a pile of ramial woodchip might but they're also slower to use up the nitrogen in the soil. All the hugel beds I've seen have been outdoors. Sepp Holzer uses a digger to make the holes as his mounds are pretty big. With a few friends you could dig a decent size hole by hand in a polytunnel perhaps, but outdoors is most common.
@@LearnPermaculture Thanks, Sorry I should have said that I meant I have trees so they have not been treated 👍🏻 I just wondered it was know that some trees were better than others or should be avoided. Cheers.
@@combitz Pioneer trees such as birch will likely break down more quickly as they grow faster and as a result their wood is less dense. Some trees/shrubs contain toxins, rhododendron and laurel for instance, so best avoided for food growing. Conifers, pines in particular, contain antifungal and antibacterial resin so I imagine they may take longer to break down.
Hi aranya. Are there any species of tree to avoid? Thanks
Quite likely. It would depend on where you are. Here in Britain I'd probably avoid Laurel and Rhododendron, but then you wouldn't want to be chipping them either as breathing in the sap fumes can hospitalize you. :o