After listening to Alex Jones recently, I was almost scared to post my huggel kultur pics, but I guess I am either brave, foolish, or too tempted to show off ..
I am going to grow various perenials and greens mixed into these beds, but also ground nuts or other invasive things.
All these beds have 18 inches to 2 feet of logs under them, mainly poplar and some birch. The beauty seems to be I can cut some trees and if I don't use them for firewood in time, they can become huggle logs ..
Bed 1. I burried the base of small trees and all in wooden logs covered with dirt. I figure ground nuts can climb these, or I will cut these trees when they start to grow too big. This bed is partially shaded, but I can expose it to more sun next year but cutting some trees ..
bed 2, small mound. I will probably put logs around it to prevent it from flattening out ..
planted some mints I had previously bought here. My sister said spearmint is highly invasive, so I
created a mini clearing someplace else with partial sun and moved the spearmint there. I just planted a bunch of salad greens,
carrots and so on here for the fall as well
aronia bush enclosed in wire, ground nut (on right) growing up wire:
bed 3, intended for rasberries/groundnut combo I think.
bed 3 from other side with more logs added.
I somehow realized I could manage to do something without having to rent any heavy equipment. It just takes longer but it
is good exercise. Here, I cart the dirt over rough ground some 300 feet from the pile it was dropped at near the road. Alot of the logs I carried some 400 feet by hand through the woods last March
when there was 3 feet of snow on the ground using snowshoes of course. I am still moving logs
all over the place and have had to make sure I don't carry too heavy a log as my back can bother me
sometimes. There's a few green logs mixed in here, but I try to use older ones which farther back in the woods
there seems to be a bunch of those. Poplar seems to manage to leave dead logs all over the place somehow
more than other trees, at least on my land.
look non conformist horders/terrorists at work, using dirt compost ! People trying to grow food outside the system !
It can't work !
bed 4, different clearing, intended for Jerusalem Artichoke/ground nut combo.
This pile is going to be smaller as I had to cart the dirt some 600 or 700 feet through the woods.
I want to isolate JA as they may be too invasive ..
Ground nut growing up a telephone pole. Isn't that beautiful ? Years ago I had
a great fondness for brook trout. I still do sort of, but more a surfer than fisherman
these days, but I have developed a similar fondness for the ground nut.
