December 23, 2024

VIDEO: GGC – 62 – Homesteading: Hugelkultur Vegetable Garden Update and Harvests


Overall, our first attempt at permaculture vegetable gardening has been a resounding success! Despite being in its first year, our Hugelkultur mound has been producing an impressive amount of fresh fruits and vegetables, with daily harvests. Here’s an update on our leafy greens, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, turnips, tomatoes, etc.

27 thoughts on “VIDEO: GGC – 62 – Homesteading: Hugelkultur Vegetable Garden Update and Harvests

  1. Great job 🙂 You can put plucked squash/tom/pumpkins in a sunny location and they will continue to ripen (leave stems on). I kept a black beauty squash in my kitchen for 9 months before we ate it…stored on a cool & dry location – loved that. I've had to pull totally green pumpkins before frost hit and they continued to turn orange in my kitchen window & were good to eat. I'm curious how your corn did in the hugel mound? 🙂 thanks for the video

  2. Get a humongous tarp to cover your camper van. I did this with a huge 5th wheel and my heating bill was simply two 5 gallon propane tanks the entire winter…11 FEET of snow!! Oh yeah, warming is so happening…gag.

    For your tiny camper van, a good tarp will blow you away.

  3. You guys are adorable. I'm so envious and can't wait 'till I can find a house with a little piece of land we can afford and move out of the city. New subscriber here, got interested because you're growing in a similar climate to where I live, gardening in a way I'm curious about. Looking forward to future videos.

  4. Seeing your results I can safely say I am going to become a garden monster!
    Thank you for posting this update. I watch you built the thing and the results were awesome.
    Greetings from Bulgaria

  5. Loving your videos! I've hardened for 45 years but I can relate to the first gardening thrills. Ideally, pick cucumbers and zucchini smaller! We all know how hard it is to see all the cucumbers hidden by the leaves. Use the ones that got way to big, to make sweet relish. I have good pickle and relish recipes.

  6. Growing cucumbers and zucchini in close vicinity to one another can cross-pollinate and you end up with tasteless cucumbers. I learned that lesson in my first year of growing.

  7. Now I am completely depressed. You got this kind of harvest in three weeks in northern Ontario? I worked constantly on my garden this year in Southwest Ontario and got nowhere near that one day's haul.

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