- Goal is mostly weed supression and cleaning up a soft down slope which is mostly glacial till and not soil enough to support anything but random weeds. I get the basic idea hugelkultur well enough, but what I am unsure about is the ratio of greens to mix in with the wood and branches, and how much soil I should cap the thing with.
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- Hugelkultur, German for “mound culture,” may have roots in an ancient form of Eastern European sheet mulching. It has come to refer to a practice used by Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer and spread across the internet by permaculture maven Paul Wheaton and other bloggers. The idea is to build a raised bed by first digging a deep trench or pit ...
- If you make the bed in spring, layer as many greens and browns as you can with layers of finished compost, peat, or topsoil interspersed in them. Finish the entire bed with 3 or 4 inches of finished compost or topsoil, and then go ahead and plant. The bed will settle over the season as the layers underneath decompose.
- How to Build a Hugelkultur Bed. First, select a sunny spot that’s roughly 8x4 feet. (A bed built parallel to a slope is a good idea, as it will catch water.) If there is grass or the site is weedy, you’ll need to clear it down to bare soil. Just mow and cover the area with cardboard or wood chips to suppress weed growth.