I seem to have been bitten by the gardening bug a little late in northern New Engalnd's short growing season. My Hügel is doing nicely, especially the tomatoes and broccoli, but I wish I had planted more, sooner. I've decided I'm going to try to get some sweet potatoes going, but I don't think there's enough warm weather ahead, so I'm going to start them in a large pot indoors, and try to transplant some shoots outside next spring. In the meantime, maybe I'll get a harvest.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 15:24:33 EDT Brian Ó -
Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-2020 10:03:33 EDT Brian Ó This Hügel is an adventure. I went out this morning to inspect it after we got some heavy rainfall last night, and I found the English thyme smothered in the very aptly named "dog vomit mold" (Fuligo septica). It wasn't there yesterday. Ugh.
It peeled off cleanly enough, and now lives in my compost tumbler. We're due for a few more days of rain so I might be battling this until things dry up.
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #permaculture #gardening #slimemold
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2020 09:46:19 EDT Brian Ó About a month since planting, and the Hügel is doing "OK". The tomato plant on top is going like gangbusters, and the broccoli seems to be doing well. The English thyme is also starting to spread. A few plants are hanging in there but not flourishing, such as the peppers and strawberries. These were the ones that bore the brunt of the skunk attacks though (which have stopped now that the fence is there) and were uprooted several times. Overall I'm encouraged. These mounds are generally not expected to be very productive until year 2, and the stuff I planted was chosen arbitrarily. I'll take some cues from what works well this year, and plant more of that stuff next year.
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #permaculture #gardening #food #diy
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2020 18:38:37 EDT Brian Ó I've had two buckets of maitake spawn colonizing for the past month. The plan was to buy them in the soil at the base of an oak tree, but I ran into a few logistical problems. First, the roots were too close to the surface for me to dig a hole, and second, the blocks would not come out of the buckets. I ended up pounding and shaking them until they finally came out in large chunks, which I made into a pile and then buried under woodchips, which was kind of Plan B anyway. Fingers crossed. 🤞
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2020 18:56:30 EDT Brian Ó The sun moved and I got a more better photo.
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #permaculture #gardening #food #diy
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2020 16:30:30 EDT Brian Ó I went by the garden center today and got a bunch of seedlings. Planting was really easy, I basically just pushed aside a bunch of wood chips and dirt with my hand, put the seedling in, and pushed the chips back to cover it.. There's actually nothing planted on the back side right now. I ran out of plants. I'll have to figure out what else to get for back there.
So far there are strawberries, several varieties of chili pepper, red bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, and snap beans. I also planted a sun-loving ground cover plant on the top (I forget the name). I'm hoping it will spread out and help keep the mount from eroding. Finally, it's ringed with petunias and begonias, just for aesthetics.
I gave it a good dousing with the hose afterward, and I'll probably need to keep that up for a while, but allegedly one of the main benefits of the Hügelkultur method is that the wood in the core wicks up and holds moisture, so once the roots penetrate down a bit, you only need to water it in extreme dry spells (which don't really happen here).
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #permaculture #gardening #food #diy
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 18:47:32 EDT Brian Ó I finished the Hügel this afternoon, thanks to my new massive supply of wood chips. All together it's a pile of old birch logs stacked in a shallow pit, then covered by the dirt dug out from the pit, then a few inches of oak leaves, a wheelbarrow full of ages rabbit droppings, two wheelbarrows full of old garden soil and compost, topped with three wheelbarrows of oak/maple chips. This weekend I'm going to plant it with fruit and vegetable seedlings, and plant flowers around the base. As a bonus, I spread some wine cap spawn under the chips, so in the fall I should get some mushrooms from it as well.
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #permaculture #mushrooms #fungi #food #diy
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 14:31:10 EDT Brian Ó I had some trees trimmed/removed this morning, and I told the guy I wanted to keep the chips. He said, "there won't be a lot". Apparently in addition to being a arborist he's also a comedian.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2020 21:15:21 EDT Brian Ó We'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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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-May-2020 14:17:48 EDT Brian Ó I made a thing! It's a new outdoor fruiting tent for the various mushrooms I'm growing this season. The tarp folds over and snaps down. I'm going to install misting nozzles on a timer along the spine, once the kit arrives. Hopefully it will be able to maintain a high humidity.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2020 19:18:28 EDT Brian Ó Does anyone around here have experience with hugelkultur? I've been trying to think of some outdoor gardening projects for this spring, stuck at home as I am, and it occurs to me that there's an old firewood pile in the woods beside my house, as well as a bunch of old fallen trees, branches, and an abundance of leaves. I think I have nearly everything I'd need just lying on my property already. Sounds like it would be fun.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-Apr-2020 17:36:20 EDT Brian Ó I laid my King Stropharia (S. rugosoannulata AKA "wine cap") bed this afternoon. 160lbs of sawdust pellets, a bunch of fallen oak branches, a wheelbarrow of woodchips, and a 5 gallon bucket of spawn. It's still a little earlier than I'd like in terms of overnight low temps (it snowed yesterday) but I'm sure they'll survive. Plus, and early start increases the chances of getting a harvest this year. I did it now because the bucket of wood chips I was inoculating started growing trichoderma and I didn't want it in the house any longer.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2020 17:46:10 EDT Brian Ó It’s 55F (13C) outside right now, which is crazy because yesterday it was in the 20s. I took the opportunity to get outside and clear some space for the wine cap (AKA king stropharia, garden giant, Stropharia Rugoso-annulata) mushroom bed I’ve been planning. It’s on the side of the house, under the shade of some large red oaks. The soil always stays moist enough that it’s got moss growing on it, so I figured this would be the perfect spot. Now I just need to source some untreated hardwood mulch.
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Josh Davis (guerillaontologist@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2020 20:05:40 EST Josh Davis A friend of mine is in the thick of getting starts going for her garden. Made me think about Richard Brautigan and how I should really steal this idea of his. I don't think he'd mind.
"Brautigan's 'Please Plant This Book' consisted of eight poems printed on seed packets. Four of the poems were about flowers. The other four were about vegetables."
http://www.brautigan.net/plant.html#8Brautigan was the original #SolarPunk.
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Mike, First of His Name (mike@social.chinwag.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2019 01:11:45 EST Mike, First of His Name I think I'm going to have to write off any hope of nectarines this year. #gardening
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Gwenhwyfar's Garden :greensun: (gwenfarsgarden@sunbeam.city)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 05:55:34 EST Gwenhwyfar's Garden :greensun: Welcome to all the new people from #India who have joined Masto.
If any of you are #gardeners and/or interested in plants etc, there are plenty more of us on the Fediverse you can talk to and with whom you can share photos.
Use the hashtags #Gardening #Plants and #Florespondence. This is the best way to to find other gardeners, plants people, people who grow food, etc :)
:_earth: :autumnleaf2: :fern: :garlic: 🌳 :greensun:
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Ms Cat Kat (pelagikat@eigenmagic.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2019 20:33:04 EDT Ms Cat Kat The button squash and potato bed is looking pretty good #gardening
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lids (lids@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2019 03:42:23 EDT lids today was a favorable day for winter-sowing! observing the first quarter moon, the lunar gravity pulls water up, and causes the seeds to swell and burst. this factor, coupled with the increasing moonlight creates balanced root and leaf growth! happy #urban #gardening! https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5716905 -
Sergei (sergeisilence@queer.party)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2019 13:37:47 EDT Sergei today's harvest from my allotment: two courgettes bigger than my forearm, two small eggplants, a couple handful of tomatoes, half a dozen corn cobs, two cucumbers, one tiny red cabbage and one green cabbage
since I haven't done any gardening/watering in the past few weeks because of the move and all that I'd say it's not a bad load!
It's good when plants can take care of themselves...
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Gwenhwyfar's Garden :greensun: (gwenfarsgarden@sunbeam.city)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2019 05:46:39 EDT Gwenhwyfar's Garden :greensun: If you like #garlic and/or would like to try growing it, or try some lesser known varieties, I’m giving some away!
Interested? Please read this blogpost, which gives you all the information on the giveaway, including varieties available: http://www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2019/08/garlic-giveaway-2019.html, and links to information about growing garlic.
Because of postal restrictions, I have to limit the giveaway to the UK/EU. Limited availability, so first come, first served. This offer is available until 22nd September 2019.