Thinking about experimenting with the Hugelkultur method of gardening [View all]
The big house is located on 5 lots with one lot wooded and there's brush in the eastern part of the ditch. I already have a couple of brush piles. The garden is located in clay soil and with the runoff from the hills east of the property, the whole back yard can stay wet for weeks when the snow melts which delays planting. I figured raised beds would solve the wetness problem and using the Hugelkultur method would also get rid of the brush piles. Killing two birds with one stone so to speak.
I'm not going big such as building 6 foot high mounds. I'm going to go small such as shown in the linked video below by digging a trench about a foot or more deep and 3 feet wide filled with branches mixed with mulched leaves and cut up cardboard ( I have a lot of that to get rid of too.) for the base with that topped by turned over sod and then that topped by a mixture of compost and the soil I dug out of the trench.
Has anyone else here tried this or is thinking about trying it? If so, what are your thoughts about Hugelkultur?
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