Raised-Bed Hugelkultur
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- During my travels on the East coast of U.S., I had the privilege to work on an amazing project with an awesome company!
We took the idea of a Hugelkultur and modified to particular specifications!
Check out the Organic & Sustainable Landscaping Company that I had the opportunity of working for during the summer!
dutradesigns.com
If you missed my video on regular a Hugelkultur, check out the link!
• Hugelkultur
And for more info on Hugelkulturs check out this informative link!
www.richsoil.co...
Filmed w/ a Nikon D7100
Edited w/ Final Cut Pro
This is great, Jesse! So glad we got to meet at Emily's mom Susan's house. Wish you could have had the time to visit here. My raised Hugelcultur bed was put in last year and, without exaggeration, produced healthier plants with more fruit than the other 4 raised beds which had blight and other problems. You go boy!
At last, I see my ideal huglekulture method. Thank you so much.
Well, this video was made a little more than three years ago now. How's that Hugelkultur performing now? How much settling took place?
Nice design love the spaces on the side for strawberries or whatever else you want to plant there!
Yeah Jesse! nice work
Nice idea and application. I like the height. Someone said they lose up to about 8-10" a year from decomposition, but this makes it easier to maintain.
FYI your music was too loud for me.....couldn't concentrate on your voice....
We would love to see the resulted fruits or vegetables it produced. In my opinion, some people miss understood this idea of hugelkutur, they just fill up the beds with freshly cut logs, that would take long time, probably few years to start decomposing itself and sometimes re growing inside or producing roots that will actually consume all the healthy contents of the soil and therefore leave plants or vegetables NOT totally dependent on that soil. My point is just to add a little explanation here not to criticise this video. Old logs that already started decomposing itself are best for using in hugelkutur.
Thank you for your video! I will come back and look at it more carefully after I harvest some carrots and make breakfast.
Background music is wonderful, as long as it's not drowning out the speaker. Other than that, thank you for the awesome video.
Awesome Jesse💚
I like this idea, having small mountains do not work well with my back as the top requires more bending at the waist that a young person may not notice :)
That was a really well executed project! Great techniques and looking very nice as well. I never considered planting into the sides of taller beds. Quite smart.
One thing I noticed is that you build up the soil to user level, but because it still has to settle, you probably had to top it of quite soon after installing?
I was under the impression that Pine logs don't break down well
Well explained! Also, I've never heard of raised bed with hugelkultur. It looks like a great setup. How is it after a season? Thanks!
Great video, wonderful explanation of a twist on concept. Love the exposed strip on the sides, where she will plant strawberries, marvelous idea! I Have been planting traditional raised beds for decades, but will now incorporate Hugelkultur in my plantings and use near zero water! Keep on planting. Peace.
Love this!!
regarding those air pockets u talked about - say one has huge air pockets b/c one screwed up with the build up, any ideas how to fix it without taking the whole thing apart --excessive watering maybe, in the hopes that the topsoil or -grass will seep down :S
I would not use the lining on the base as it will prevent worms penetrating from the ground beneath. Worms thrive in natural hügelkultur settings.
bravo quel beau travaille vous êtes super
Nice vid. Heard that pine wood prevents fungal growth so shouldn't be used in huegel culture.
Pine is fine for hugelkultur
The video was very useful thank you. I have a small question is it necessary that the top soil should always be mounted or we can make it flat as well. Thank you so much.
Did it work out that year or did you have to wait years like comment below? Love how people are telling you how it will fail and did it wrong, yet don’t harden? Cool vid, where is this, not Costa Rica too? Great exotic fruit, want to try this!
how is the garden doing now? how well is it producing? is it low mantainace?
cool shit bro!
+Dee Loc Thanks my brutha!
How are your vids coming along?
the music so depressing and you are talking like if she broke your heart ...i almost wanted to cry... BAAADDD!!!!!!
Great info but background music is too loud.
It’s very hard to hear what you are saying because the music is so loud. Spoilt the video, but I get the gist of what your making.
the guitar tuning noise isn't needed ..... loud to the point of distraction it is..... but ty for video
gardening for the rich
Indeed, felt very conflicting tbh
Beautiful video
PS: very annoying music
Those look like pressure treated 4x4s, probably not very hugel. You might want to read up on what they treat those with.
Would LOVE to see updated photos of how this gorgeousness has flourished !! Praying it works well for your elderly garden loving client !!!
Would love to see a follow-up on this design.
Interesting . Next video please don't have music. It was too loud and distracting .
Can you go ahead and set plants in it.? Or do you need to let it set
I failed on my compose and dirt raised bed it was just too thirsty for me to keep watering.
I was just trying to compose my trash wood, limbs and leafs both green and brown and planted flowers that I didn't want to fuss with out back,
Only water in the planting and I walked away and later pass a month and 2-6 months later I have some of the best flowers doing great on their own .I just happen to used your methods and it was a great garden last season, Going to add compose and hopefully get a repeat season.
Thanks
How deep should the top soil be to prevent the plants from losing nitrogen from the decaying wood the first year or two?
Sad distracting music :(
The material is way too green with not enough of a break for instant gardening. The branches go up too high, are too fresh, and will interfere with the nitrogen cycle until they decompose. The wood at the bottom will take years to start decomposing. That paltry offering of grass will do hardly any good and all of that nitrogen will run off before the tree chunks are in a state where they are able to use it. Her raised bed will sink so much. If she tries to plant strawberries in the sides of the fabric in the first or even 3rd year, the roots will get ripped off by this sinking. This video looks good but the science behind it is not right. It is both mechanically and biologically doomed to work until a few years have passed and many amendments have been made.
Thanks for the pointers!
What would a Raised Hugel look like if it were to be mechanically and biologically successful?
I have never made one yet but have been looking at many videos and reading many threads and all of actual scientific explanations and reasons just clicked in my head last week. I am going to build a mini raised Hugel/BTE in my garden this year and this is what I will do.
Make the bed 2 feet deep by at least 2-4 feet wide. Make the spaces between the raised bed wood 1/4 inch apart. No fabric. You want to let the air get into your soil.
You can place a SMALL solid core of fresh wood in the center of the bottom of the bed as it will take years to even start decomposing. Older is better. Slightly decomposed is better. The best for instant gardening would be rotten logs that have all of the lignan, or color out of them. They arent the normal yellow you see in regular wood. You can crush them with your fingers.
Pieces of rotten logs would be better. On either side of this log, smaller and semi decomposed...hardwood is best. NO SOFT WOOD! Instead of filling the spaces with grass use woodchips. This will give a boost to surface area of humus compostable material. It will also take longer to decompose than grass. To give nitrogen to the mix to help breakdown both woodchips and the green log on the bottom, add most of your amendments to the soil that you will grow in. Add lots of used coffee grounds. The bottom layer will be a nitrogen sponge for whatever runs down from the soil above.
For me I have a hard clay soil so I have already gathered sand and the top 1/2" of topsoil from a deciduous forest. I will mix this sad clay with about 10% sand, 20% forest soil, and 10% coffee grounds. I will top this all off with a 4" layer of leaf mold and a 4" layer of woodchips.
Now I have a water storage system at both the top and bottom of my root zone and plenty of nutrients to perculate down to feed woodchips underground.
Dont forget to feed your raised bed mushrooms
The one thing that I noticed was old, nearly rotted wood, is always added near the top layer as this wood will soak up moisture and should already be teaming with biological activity. Which can be crucial to a new bed. I would also have added some bigger thicker green nitrogen sources, as well as some worm castings in the soil layer. I would also add in some sea-90 or rock dust as well as covering the bed with hay/straw mimicking the Ruth Stout method. It's kind of a 3-way hybrid Raised/Hugel/Stout garden bed now just water with aquaponics fish water and it's a quadruple hybrid...
I've used this method in large pots and it works great! Okra and tomatoes both thrived. I'm pretty sure these folks know what they're doing:)
SHACKLED it doesn’t matter if it takes years to rot down , putting on compost etc each year with wood chips can be done to grow in ,the wood below will break down in its own time so no big deal ,it will benifit in years to come anyway.
The music is really shit but I made a hugelbox kinda like this one the other day and it's going like a champ
Are these for fruit? Pine is allopathic and not great for vegetables.
Gotta say along with others, music was nice buy wayyyy to overbearing
Good video but music too loud, hard to hear you.
This was SO WELL DONE!!
Best video I've seen on this!
Great video new friend! Hope you can join me as well! I will be building a raised bed using this process as well. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent video, I also did a "Hugelcrate" planter box :) She's producing very well right now compared to the other parts of my garden. Definitely a good method. I've now built another 2 big boxes. Exciting stuff. Happy gardening my friend.
Not sure why people were complaining about the music?? Wasn’t distracting at all. Great video! Will be doing my 2nd and 3rd hugelkultur raised beds next month.
Raise beds filled with log sections and branches is not likely to break down because oxygen is needed to facilitate the rotting process . In this video the interior is lined with sheet plastic . You can show how to make a huglekulture bed but it the results that count . . Very suspect that the wood would rot and act as a moisture reservoir. These beds will have to be irrigated .
Cool idea, kindly keep music low or out of the video. Thats not the focus.
Music seems low to me. Quite mellow actually, not distracting, if anything I feel that it compliments the video and ties it together. But will keep your input in mind for future vids! Thxs!
Jesse Preciado sorry didn't want to sound hard. I liked the video a lot. Learnt new idea.
i had a hard time hearing the video, its a bit loud , blending with your voice
Jesse Preciado-I agree! The music is fine!
Thanks for sharing! This is how I want to do my raised beds this year! I am in Sweden where it is still winter, but I am starting to gather materials
You shouldn't use pine in Hugekultur! It's acidic and resists decomposition!
I am currently working on a very similar project. Thanks for th einfo.
Why the hardware cloth on the sides of the beds?
Working on my own hugelkultur.
How can something make roots in that ? The branches are just under the surface :-/
Carrots would just go wrong
To answer your rhetorical question, the wood absorbs water and becomes a sponge which roots love to dig into, this is how it works in the forest, so think twice before you tell mother nature she's wrong, she has a lot more experience than you :)
Your boss is HOT
Very good idea!!
Nice job
Do you have the information of the classes you took in CR?
Costa Rica
Don't use pine (or ceder) in Hogelculture😁😲❤🌹
We have loads of ponderosa pine hit by the beatles and it is already pretty broken down when we took down the trees. Would be that be ok to use if mixed in w birch and other branches from the property? Thanks!
So inspiring and exciting! We are in the middle of NZ winter and I discovered Hugelkulture in last week of May 2016. I love the concept and new discovery of gardening. I started working on it it using materials in our garden with my collection of autumn leaves from the park and coffee grounds from cafes and seaweeds.