Hugelkultur - How I constructed this garden bed

[@davidstanworth5543]

I have an 8-year-old 25 ft long 4 ft wide bed of asparagus. It looks just like your mound but bigger and wider. Every year it puts off more asparagus it has been awesome

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

That’s great! I’ve never grown asparagus

[@davidstanworth5543]

@@Escapingthedailygrind you would really enjoy it the hardest part is waiting up to 3 years to start harvesting. This big row is Martha Washington. The last place I lived I planted a 25-ft row of purple asparagus and it was awesome and massive the new homeowners were very lucky if they kept them. Every year there's more. Take care and good luck out there

[@blackrocks8413]

nice, nothing wrong with the shallow dig method. Looks good and I think you will like it. We had a backhoe on site for our pool, so I asked hime to dig mone deeper about 30" depth. I had old wood, straw, paper, roots etc... stacked and he just swept the bucket sideways and badda bing we could start adding compost on mixed with soil. Same-same just deeper. Best $50 I ever spent paying that guy. I'd of never got organic matter in deep ny other way. Worms don't do that kinda work.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

That’s awesome! Would love to get some machinery to come dig for me. Yeah 30” is almost impossible for me with hand tools.

[@jeffjackson5331]

Very cool! You're a young buck yet brother. I turn 59 tomorrow Feb. 7th. That's old lol

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

Oh no question I’m not “old” necessarily but, I am feeling the age a bit when doing this stuff. 10 years ago I could have dug that whole thing in a day. Haha!

[@jeffjackson5331]

@@Escapingthedailygrind lol! That is very true! 22 years ago i could have too lol. The heart attack in 2002 started the down hill spiral for me lol.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

You’re young for a heart attack! Man I’m sorry to hear that

[@jeffjackson5331]

@@Escapingthedailygrind yeah i was. I was 37 years old. My cardiologist did an emergency heartcath on me and that saved my life. He told us that i technically should have come off the roof (i was coating the roof of a mobile home when it happened) in a body bag and not on my own power. The last 22 years have been chocked full of miracles of life for me.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

God is good that you still are here with us. Praise Jesus! I’ve got quite a few miracles as well. I also should not be here on multiple occasions. It makes you realize just how fragile we are and appreciate the short time we have here with family and friends.

[@shadyman6346]

Cool video.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

Thank you!

[@tanyawales5445]

Your soil sounds similar to mine which is sandstone chunks mixed with clay and virtually no organic material in it. I am going to call Chip Drop to get free wood chips come Spring and use that to mulch the sides of my yard. On top of that I will be scattering slow release fertilizer and laying black, water permeable landscape fabric on top. that should kill the grass and turn the grass and wood chips to compost. I want to plant a bunch of fruit trees and decided to use hardy fig cuttings, fancy elderberry cuttings and get them rooted this winter before planting them out into the landscape fabric. The nice thing is that trees/shrubs that aren't grafted are less trouble when it comes to pruning since there are no aggressive graft branches growing out of the base. As long as the roots stay alive the tree/shrub can regenerate after a really hard freeze. I also am going to raise some nitrogen fixing trees from seed. I have a big lot and will probably put some catalpa trees away from the house because of catalpa caterpillars. One kind of tree (for the future) you might consider growing are chilopsis (desert willow) or Chitalpa x tashkenti. They are nitrogen fixing trees with lovely spring flowers that look like catalpa flowers but frillier and more colorful. For muscle aches, take an Epsom salt bath. The Epsom salt contains magnesium which you can absorb directly through your skin. It will relax your muscles and help get rid of those aches and pains.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

Awesome! Yeah so I thought about chip drip but I basically have that in my backyard now. Haha! I mean the chips aren’t as fine but, it works!

[@kenfarley957]

Looks like nice soil.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

Oh thanks! I mean the ground I’m working isn’t great but hopefully this Hugelkultur bed will improve it.

[@offgridamy717]

In america we call it permaculture lol. I'm on a rock mountain . I did no dig building up with good compost.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

So permaculture to my knowledge is a wide term for a bunch of different types of natural growing techniques. Sustainable gardening basically. Hugelkultur I thought had to do with just one aspect of that, which is digging a hole and burring logs in there before throwing the dirt back on top. I could be wrong but I think the permaculture is the Broader term. As for no till gardening I’m not fully sold yet. I want to get to that point but I’ve got such terrible soil I’ve gotta till a bit at first, first few years till it gets to the point where I can no till. At least that’s my goal

[@offgridamy717]

@@Escapingthedailygrind i envy flat landers haha

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

Oh man, you might not envy my soil though. It’s heavy clay packed soil with lots of rocks. In fact more rock than dirt in some places. I used to live in Colorado, and I’ll be honest the soil was better there. Easier to work the ground. I kinda miss Colorado for many reasons. It was beautiful and great fishing (which is my favorite past time).

[@pmolter]

You’re 40 lol that’s not old

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

lol! No it’s not, but it’s the time your body starts slowing down a bit. There are things I used to be able to do that I can’t anymore ya know?

[@robertboykin1828]

looks like a collection of your bad neighbors.

[@Escapingthedailygrind]

My bad neighbors?? Whatcha mean