Brian ÓWe've had some really nice weather this weekend, so I got a start on my Hügelkultur garden bed. I piled a bunch of deadfall logs from the woods around my house (mostly birches) in a shallow pit, covered it with a layer of soil, and then stacked another layer of logs and then some more soil. Next will be a layer of leaves (of which I have a copious supply), then some composted rabbit turds, some more soil, and finally wood chip (which I'll get on Tuesday when the arborists come to trim back my trees). I'm not 100% decided what I'll plant on it, but I have a couple of strawberry seedlings to start with.
I'm excited about this project, because it's 100% free made of crap I had lying around my property, which is kind of the point of this method. I'm also hoping that in several years when the wood's mostly rotted away I can tear down the mound and spread the soil around my yard, because the existing ground is sandy, rocky, and shit for growing a lawn on. It could use some help.
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