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  1. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I lived in the Piedmont area 20 years and built a couple fences for my dogs .Maybe it wasn't red? I wasn't the same color as ours in WV
  2. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I found out the hard way to use a sledge hammer and slate bar to bust the soil after I got about a foot down with the auger .I lived in the Piedmont at the time.WV clay is much easier to work with but the rock is a nightmare.You have to dig the rocks out or go around them
  3. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    My electric fence post digger just bounced off the red clay in NC about a foot down (requiring a tamping bar and sledge hammer)We don't have the same type of clay here(WV)The rocks are a pain
  4. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    Never defeated ! After building a pallet greenhouse where the pizza oven sat I planted some beautiful white flowers .3 years later they were mowed down to make the chickens a sunbathing spot out front
  5. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    How wonderful it is to grow your own food! Thanks for sharing!
  6. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I would have had to sued my brother to collect. He worked for him and sent the guy up here on his equipment to do the work for me. They didn't charge me for the job after they destroyed it
  7. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    The storms damaged our county but I wasn't affected fortunately. Just washed out my driveway but my brother has an escalator so he fixed it last week.I couldn't get out for a couple weeks but I was able to borrow his vehicle. It Flooded a lot of homes and businesses here. Washed culverts and...
  8. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I raised red wigglers back then,now I raise night crawlers lol
  9. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I made a rocket stove outdoor Pizza oven about 8 years ago when I retired but a guy working on our sewer drain lines hit the side of it with a piece of heavy equipment and destroyed it.I was too pissed off to build another one(double chambers)
  10. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I like using cinder blocks and pallets lol(not mine but it is one of my summer projects)
  11. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    If you look behind the picket fence along the ground you can see the bottom of my keyhole flower bed that had firewood logs buried around the perimeter to hold the soil in.The center was almost 3 ft tall.
  12. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    If you don't mind the rustic look you could make some of these (not necessarily this tall)You could line the inside with landscape fabric,feed sacks, old tin,wood, etc
  13. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I made a keyhole garden in 2011 using 16'" logs around the perimeter instead of bricks (I can't seem to find a picture of it) The screen in the center is a compost pile for scraps from the kitchen or garden.I never had to water it.This is just a photo of one similar to it
  14. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    They worked the sawmill 20 years.It was closed after my grandfather was injured and died in the 50's (73 years ago) The sawdust piles were still steaming in the 60's when we were kids growing up .They're long gone now.I raised a garden there in the 80's
  15. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    They raised chickens and kept a team of logging horses down at the saw mill (right below the house)They only fenced what they needed for the garden and horses (16 acres) Mostly to keep the neighbors cows out.You could almost stand under the horses belly.
  16. McChooky

    Hügelkultur Raised Beds

    I'm glad you were able to safely remove it and use the wood in your hügelkultur beds. (They don't call them widow makers for no reason!) My grandfather was a logger and built the house we grew up. Best garden spot was where they dumped all their sawdust.
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