Huegelkultur Bed: A Lot of Work to Let Nature Take Its Course

[meistergedanken]

I decided last year that I wanted to construct a Huegelkultur bed, but waited until I had a large tree cut down earlier this spring so I could use some of its wood in it.  Huegelkultur (translated as "mound culture") is an old, traditional German/Central European way of making raised beds using large amounts of wood covered by a soil cap.  The

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[weebleswobble]

love the pictures! its nice to see the process, i've never made one. thank you for sharing.

[kharmii]

Nice!

My parents were doing that kind of thing on a smaller scale last year. They bought a bunch of cattle watering tubs at estate sales and put logs at the bottoms, then filled with soil.

[low_delta]

Excellent. Thanks for posting!

[zadok_allen]

Never heard of that but it is super interesting. Please post again as it develops!

[meistergedanken]

I will if anything interesting takes root in it!