This small scale Hugelkultur bed is made by simply planting around
close proximity to a dead and rotting stump. This not a new technique,
but this method has prooven to be very effective.
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Luke great video I planted Catnip , Sedum , and creeping thyme around an old stump . I didnt bury it and the plants love being planted up against it. So this method does work. Dont wory about negative comments your doing a great job very informative videos!
We have a stump next to the pathway that leads to my husband aquaponics behind my greenhouse and I have a sage plant growing there on top of the stump but it's in a pot – I think I'll unpot it and plant it there 😉 thanks for this idea Luke
Awesome! That thing really took off.
Another awesome video Luke. 🙂
Could you inoculate the stump with edible mushrooms? Then you would get herbs and a food crop!
Thanks Luke, that was indeed awesome 🙂
I have an Elm tree stump. I will try to do it. Problem is that it's a back of my shed and does not get much sun. Thanks for the information.
I'm beside my self in anticipation of the ground softening up in spring, because I do believe I have a few tree stumps to play with.
If you have a good healthy system those leaves and logs sure will feed plants for a long time.
Can you try something for me? Can you find a hollow stump, add soil and plant something in it? I saw a hollow stump in a forest and thought it would make a perfect planter that would feed the plants!
You made the connection! We can walk past these things one thousand times and not see it for what it is.
Great idea – never heard of it before. Thanks.
Nice video! I hadn't heard about that method before but it sounds very cool 🙂
Thank-You. I didn't know that. I have a stump that I can work on and I will see how it goes.
I seen people use this system especially in places that doesn't rain a lot. I think it's great to experiment but I think that it's great to show from the beginning. I love doing experiment it's great because you learn a lot. Right now I'm growing garlic in water and notice that the one in water it grows faster than putting in dirt. In 3 days it had roots and sprouted. Great video like always.
Luke, those negative comments are like pot holes in a beautiful city. Just a pot hole. You are by far a teacher and a well rounded human being. Thank you for sharing your special gift. I always look forward to your videos!!:)
I knew there had to be an easier way! Thanks for sharing your experience Luke.
sage is not hard to grow I grew sage this year and even in a window box it was my best grower … I left it for a week with out watering cause of vacation and it doubled in size in the middle of a Colorado summer
Great video! It might be worth the time and effort to excavate a bed to add some wood chunks, small logs, etc, if it's gonna give you years of carefree maintenance (no watering, fertilizing, etc). Do the logs, stumps/wood pieces have to cure before being added? It would seem that if it were freshly cut it might rob the soil of nitrogen as opposed to being well into decay.
I first heard of Hugelkultur and Back to Eden by watching your vids. I convinced my hubby to quit the Texas tradition of having controlled large brush fires after clearing land. Now I know what to do with logs, wood chips and even horse manure. Make soil and Garden! We have a large woodchipper for our tractor that I will put to use this year. Maria, HillCountryHick.com
I've buried old logs in my woodland gardens for years now I have a name for what I've been doing and it really works well. Thanks for the great video
now i know what to do with those stumps
I don't know where you get your info on sage but sage likes real dry places. The dryer the better. I have multiple sage plants and one of them is 18 years old wich I've sowed myself. If you give them too much nutients and water they will wither away. Look at how they grow in nature. I have much succes with sage by just putting them in the dryest place I have and don't do much after that, don't even water them.
Got something like this going on with a stump at my aunt's place – just dumped a couple of wheelbarrow loads of a mixture of garden soil, potting soil, compost, manure, and vermiculite in and around it (it had a hollow cavity that got filled to the top), and we planted a number of flowers, plus a Brown-eyed Susan in the middle of the cavity. It's been doing fairly well.
build you a small raised bed over the log
RELIEF! I'm so glad that I don't have to remove the stumps in my yard!
I've had good results with blueberries using this technique.
Would semi burnt logs and charcoal work better than non burnt logs?
Thank you very very very much for this video for the wise SIMPLICITY that I and too many others miss by thinking and what not
Can I use Yellow Pine ?