We all like to add biomass to beds this goes double for hugelkultur, know what your adding in the soil. You don’t want problems to deal with for years
VIDEO: Hugelkultur, never do this
We all like to add biomass to beds this goes double for hugelkultur, know what your adding in the soil. You don’t want problems to deal with for years
Thanks for the heads up!!
Jerusalem Artichoke stover behaves the same way.
Easy to get the rhizome Bermuda grass into a bed.
All you have to do is let it die first.
Can you believe ppl actually BUY these things and plant them on purpose?? It just breaks my heart bc I know they have no idea what they are getting into
Like trumpet vine!
Wow!! Very informative info about invasive species. Thanks!!
That is a great friggin point…. Poplar and cottonwood could also be an issue. I had a friend cut a bunch of green poplar stakes about 6 feet tall and used them in long term vine planting deal in his yard… Everyone of the stakes grew into a tree. lol
Thank you for this.
Good to know.
Make a rocket stove and burn all those sticks when cooking your meals
Simple solution to using such material. Pile them up to dry before using them in the garden bed.
Hi, I'm making a hugel bed from Willow sticks and logs, here in Holland. If you put a willow stick in the ground, it'll become a tree again, so probably facing the same problem. Does anyone know how long I should let the wood dry before I can cover it up? Sawed it a few months ago and it feels pretty dry now…
good warning!
Thank you! Or, is youtube watching me night and day? I just started sawing off shoots from the fence line today and I have no idea what the shrub type things are but they grow very well on their own. I have some little ditches I was going to throw everything into and then plant on top with the original soil in a mound. Glad I watched this. The only reason I didn't throw them in the ditch already is I was thinking I could use the woody ones to make a DIY cucumber trellis.
I have read or seen somewhere that one should avoid PINE in the hugelculture. Is that right?
Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.
Thank you! We have SO MUCH privet in our yard it's maddening. We have been putting tree trimmings into our raised beds but never privet. Now I know to avoid it.
I live in England. I have a lot of English ivy. I never use it for anything unless it has been dried, killed, covered and composted or preferably burned (I might give biochar a go). I have a grudging respect for it, amazing plant in a lot of ways but it should stay where it belongs, in England. Even over here it takes a lot of work to stop it destroying sheds, houses, cities, fences etc, I can imagine how difficult it must be to control it in the Pacific Northwest.
What if you boil it?
It's probably a good rule of thumb to not put green branches of any kind into a mound. It's just asking for it to sprout. I am making a hugelkultur in large containers, and my choice of fill was to make sure everything was dead, dead, dead. Twigs, leaves, small tiny chunks of branches, all dead.
Ohhhh, let me laugh with you. My first year in the garden—so excited by the first « seeds » that came up, I lovingly transplanting them all over, watered them faithfully, and eventually discovered that my first sprouts were actually just WEEDS. Bah, Replanted Rhizomes? I’ll raise you Transplanted Weeds!
privett stunt matches my dumb stunt of cuttin down a crape myrtle, tossed it in empty raised bed to dry out. i thot dead enough, so covered with thick cardboard, LOTS OF NEW bagged soil, planted seeds and sat back to await the veggies! came over other day to start pulling out the veg bushes and…yep, a bucket load of baby crape myrtle shoots. i am currently digging out 2' deep by 10' long bed of dirt and sifting into bins to store til i get this mess cleaned out. also finding thin thickets of roots grown thru the 2 layers of ground cloth i lined bed with. there was never anything but grass in this spot so i'm concerned the crapes are now in the ground. premo prep job but really messed up using the crape myrtle as filler. the growth is on the largest branches, not the thin limbs, so maybe it just wasnt quite dead. used a ton of cardboard. some real nice dirt at the bottom tho!!!
Not so interesting…
If it grows and you dont want it..you just cut it…so simple
Be careful with willow and yucca as well.
Good to know
I'd recommend getting a wood chipper for the homestead. Stuff like that will get spit out the other end and fry increments and if you leave it out for a few days for it to dry probably won't have big of a problem
I, too, fight the privette wars!!
They just seem to like to grow just where you don't want them. Gotta get ALL of the roots out of the ground, otherwise it turns into a nurse stump with more privettes than you started with.
Good luck!