Hügelkultur Raised Beds

[DuckLady]

Some sort of fencing on the inside...?

Kind of, or they could be on the outside too. Or the posts could be on the outside and the trellis on the inside, though it’s all hypothetical until hubby actually starts building the beds.

 

[fuzzi]

I'm thinking of reinforcing with concrete "cinder" blocks. Anyone have experience with those?

Note: we have a lot of ants here. They've tried to take over my beds a few times.

 

[Land of Lincoln]

Had a few zucchini left out of this bed so I took a pic of the last few out of this bed…

They did really well for my first Hugelkultur raised bed. Everything did well, peppers are still producing like mad too.

Been a bumper crop season for the peppers and they just keep spitting them out.

Everything in the raised beds have done well and am very pleased with everything. My back likes it too.

Hope you all are enjoying good results as well.

 

[DuckLady]

Great looking peppers!

 

[Land of Lincoln]

I was wondering, if any of you that have raised beds and have practiced this hugelkultur method, if any of you have buried kitchen scraps in your beds at the end of that beds season?

I’ve trench composted in the soil of my regular in ground garden areas and have seen some improvement there with soil quality. I really don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I have a totally different type of soil in my raised beds than my in ground garden areas but really don’t see why trenching with kitchen scraps couldn’t help that soil even more.

Worms would have to work their way up towards the buried scraps but I’d think their tunneling and manure would help aerate and fertilize that soil on their way to the scraps.

I will more than likely give this a shot in a couple of the raised beds just to see if one bed looks any different or has better results next year than a bed that didn’t get the scraps. All the beds now have the same soil in them so it’ll be an interesting little experiment.

 

[fuzzi]

I was wondering, if any of you that have raised beds and have practiced this hugelkultur method, if any of you have buried kitchen scraps in your beds at the end of that beds season?

I’ve trench composted in the soil of my regular in ground garden areas and have seen some improvement there with soil quality. I really don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I have a totally different type of soil in my raised beds than my in ground garden areas but really don’t see why trenching with kitchen scraps couldn’t help that soil even more.

Worms would have to work their way up towards the buried scraps but I’d think their tunneling and manure would help aerate and fertilize that soil on their way to the scraps.

I will more than likely give this a shot in a couple of the raised beds just to see if one bed looks any different or has better results next year than a bed that didn’t get the scraps. All the beds now have the same soil in them so it’ll be an interesting little experiment.

I've buried kitchen scraps in the beds, but advise laying netting or fencing on top, as squirrels and others will dig.

 

[DuckLady]

I was wondering, if any of you that have raised beds and have practiced this hugelkultur method, if any of you have buried kitchen scraps in your beds at the end of that beds season?

I’ve trench composted in the soil of my regular in ground garden areas and have seen some improvement there with soil quality. I really don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I have a totally different type of soil in my raised beds than my in ground garden areas but really don’t see why trenching with kitchen scraps couldn’t help that soil even more.

Worms would have to work their way up towards the buried scraps but I’d think their tunneling and manure would help aerate and fertilize that soil on their way to the scraps.

I will more than likely give this a shot in a couple of the raised beds just to see if one bed looks any different or has better results next year than a bed that didn’t get the scraps. All the beds now have the same soil in them so it’ll be an interesting little experiment.

What a great idea! I have a bed just sitting right now and I could do that until it starts snowing and the ground freezes.

 

[akroberts1085]

I was trying to do that with my big potato raised bed. I didn't think it was working so I just stopped but I am currently working on getting more beds made and filled and then start adding the scraps.