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The Answer Is.....Hugelkultur

Category: Starting and Maintaining the Garden | Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 3:58 pm

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Ever since we took out the filberts last summer I have struggled with moving plants I wanted to save and how best to transition this 15' x 20' section of yard. A rich man would have had the stumps ground down and all the wood hauled off or neatly put into proper lengths for the wood stove and stacked. Well that is not going to happen.


Filbert remnants ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )


Stumps covered ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Right now we are living with the ugly. I am pawning off fern leaf bleeding hearts by the box load and watching out for filbert sprouts from the stumps. Luckily one of the stumps was dead from the filbert blight. Unfortunately the other two are languishing under covers of cardboard, dirt and logs too long to go in the wood stove.

Having a little vacation from work has provided me with opportunities to actually read some of the blogs I subscribe to and there was my answer (big, huge smile from ear to ear). A blog by Erica entitled "Half-Ass Hugelkultur".
http://www.nwedible.com/2012/03/half-ass-hugelkultur.html

Hers was the spark that lead to checking out this idea. Wonder of wonders I already have the base started. I now have a vision for the area...well still half baked, but the idea is developing. I'll continue to mull over the logistics, but everything I have read makes perfect sense. Now like Erica I will have to find a way to pretty it up after the foundation is laid. Maybe bricks to outline the base and definitely mulch to cover the top surface. Humm...what are your gardening plans for this summer?

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