The TRUTH About Hugelkultur And Filling Raised Beds With Logs

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  @TheMillennialGardener · 1 year ago · pinned

  If you enjoyed this video, please <b>LIKE</b> it and share it with family and friends! Thanks for watching 🙂 TIMESTAMPS for convenience:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnJs9X7u64">0:00</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;Introduction<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnJs9X7u64&amp;t=44">0:44</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;What Is Hugelkultur?<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnJs9X7u64&amp;t=193">3:13</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;Hugelkultur And Raised Garden Beds<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnJs9X7u64&amp;t=367">6:07</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;Problems With Hugelkultur Raised Garden Beds<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnJs9X7u64&amp;t=704">11:44</a> &nbsp;The Best Way To Fill Raised Garden Beds<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnJs9X7u64&amp;t=821">13:41</a> &nbsp;NEVER Plant A Tree On A Hugelkultur Mound!<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnJs9X7u64&amp;t=899">14:59</a> &nbsp;Adventures With Dale

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  @gailginn8746 · 1 year ago

  My raised beds are counter height - 36&quot;. &nbsp;They are half filled with logs, branches, etc. and the other half soil. &nbsp;Have being growing in these beds for years now. &nbsp;Each year I add a couple of inches of more soil to keep them topped off. &nbsp;At 74 years old, being able to stand upright beside these beds, planting and harvesting is a huge blessing.

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  @dreadnegus · 1 year ago

  The little known key to Hugelkultur is burying our logs with the aim of having them be level with the ground when buried. Dig a wide trench to accommodate your logs. Toss the removed soil back into the spaces between your logs. This lessens the amount of shrinkage from the soil settling. Then, place planting soil on top. Hugelkultur&apos;s main goal is not about saving soil, it is access to moisture and fungal activity. You can add wood to a higher level, but you want to add soil between your logs. Also, add in small sticks to fill spaces between logs.

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  @joannewolfe5688 · 8 months ago

  My raised beds are 3.5 feet deep. I HAVE to use a deep layer of logs and wood chips because there&apos;s no way I can buy enough soil. I use recycled metal to build my beds for very low cost to me. At age 71, and looking at gardening for the next decade or more, I need beds that I do not have to stoop to garden in. So I am gradually replacing all my in-ground beds with raised. Another way to build soil in new deep raised beds is simply use them as compost bins for the first year. I shred a huge amount of leaves and mix them with non-treated grass clippings all summer long, plus kitchen waste, etc. I can easily fill raised beds (on top of free wood chips and logs) in one year. A layer of purchased garden soil the following year and I am ready to plant.

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  @terrinegron · 1 year ago

  Yep, am indeed the lucky one living in California which used Hugelkultur method to fill all of my raised beds. Much easier on my back and after 3 years, finding gopher issues and added in gopher screens at bottom of each bed, I removed all the soil &nbsp;and found the most incredible broken down dark soil all thru the beds with hardly anything from the branches/leaves and wood left. Plus, I practice no dig gardening and year after year I leave in the roots of tomatoes/zucchini/flowers and any veggies roots to help feed the soil below. When I first filled the beds I only left about 8&quot; of good compost/soil on top, worked great! Each season, the beds do sink a little and after harvesting, I added in good compost to fill them up again. Works great for me.

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  @angyles1 · 1 year ago

  I built 4 raised beds 3 years ago using this method but it was out of practicality. The beds were built 28” deep because I wanted them tall enough to work in comfortably standing up. When we bought the house, there was a pile of firewood too old to use, and we also had to cut 3 live oaks down. Using this method helped us fill the beds with half the amount of soil, and got rid of all that old useless firewood. The soil level does drop a bit each year but I top it off with a load of bulk soil/compost from a local place that’s dirt cheap (bada bump). I do question if it actually has any of the moisture benefits claimed, but it worked great for my application.

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  @goodatbeingpoor · 1 year ago

  When I made my garden rows originally I found every old log and branch on the property and buried them underneath, after three years there’s no trace of them. They had completely decomposed.

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• CR

  @CreateWithCarolLee · 2 months ago

  There’s so much more to it! Permaculture practices, explain how it is healthy for the soil. There is also no need for plastic lined pathways. Instead, the mounds are supposed to have a pathway in between that catches the water. To make it walkable wood chips are put on there, which then keeps the ground soil, covered, allowing the water catchment area to retain that moisture.<br>Putting plastic in between plant beds is the equivalent of paving streets. The ground stays cooler and moisture if it is not covered by black plastic.<br>I would suggest checking out some of the Permaculture pioneers. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 just trying to encourage others and bring back the art of the backyard gardening and creating food forest.

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  @TheVTRainMan · 1 year ago

  I think 16&quot; beds with a 4-6&quot; layer of split up or small logs on the bottom is not a waste or problematic in my situation. &nbsp;I&apos;ve had nothing but success doing this in the past 10-12yrs. &nbsp; I&apos;ve even added wood debris to lower beds (10-12&quot;) and everything other than long rooting carrots do great. &nbsp; Yes, I have to add soil and compost every year. &nbsp;I would anyways. &nbsp;But, the real bonus is about 3-5yrs later, the composted/rotted wood on the bottom becomes beautiful soil.... and it is still moisture retaining. &nbsp;Don&apos;t be discouraged by the height recommendations listed here.

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  @dorr3522 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m at the bottom of a tall hill and have approx. 1 foot of &quot;OK&quot; garden soil over impervious clay. &nbsp;In the spring the garden soil layer is saturated. &nbsp;Hugelkultur has allowed me to raise the &quot;OK&quot; soil level above the flooded layer. &nbsp;It also allows me to dispose/recycle tree materials rather than burning. &nbsp;The pockets of wood in the impervious clay do substancially reduce my watering needs. It&apos;s my economical method of creating large raised beds without using containers.

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  @gelwood99 · 1 year ago

  I did this in 3 of my beds, 27&quot; deep x 3 1/2&apos; x 12&apos;.It works for me! I top the beds with the compost my chickens make.

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  @Jay2264-r9n · 1 year ago

  The Hugelkultur method works very well in Europe where they are left to settle first before using them. Time is the key factor.

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