A long time ago, in this very spot, we dug a hole!
Check out our original push - 777 shovels was only the start!
We get outside today for a little plant action and an update on the hugelkulture geo-engineering that we have done and what we are doing to transform what otherwise might be one big lawn. On this spot, one of our world wide permaculture experimental spots - we use the 'Oasis Model', where we slowly develop around a central point or focus as things grow, instead of trying to tackle the entire lawn at once.
I hope you enjoy this video - please leave me your comments, questions and encouragements!
Oh and here's more on hugelkultur for those of you interested!
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So wait, you put the wood chips and such down, and then covered with sand? Is that's because it's Florida and so a lot of plants are acclimated to more sand in the soil? I haven't seen sand used that way before! Very cool. I would have never thought of the flooding aspect ...dang, we need to dig some of those trenches like that around here. We get flash flooding in Denver.
Love the Power To Stop The Video, Captain Planet! :D
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So the hugelkultur is more common in northern climates, and you bury whole wood, we just buried what we had, which was prunings from bushes and woody shrubs. and we buried it 'in sand' only because the soil is like 100% sand here! so again, just what we had. Over time, you can see a very thin layer of top soil develop, but the common practice is to throw out all yard waste, so they literally dispose of all the fertility and then go buy bags of stuff at the store so the plants grow better.
Its just crazy what people have trained themselves into thinking is 'best practice'. We saw a commercial about a '3 in one' lawn care product, (triple threat LOL) it had grass fertilizer, ant killer and something that killed clover - and the commercial said 'Keep your kids safe while they play in the lawn'. And we still laugh about saying 'I've never seen a clover molest a child!'. But they probably kill the nitrogen fixing clovers so you need more fertilizer next year, its madness.
God Bless you Phe!
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Yeah - my dad was very much into the store bought lawn (still is, really). When I lived at home again in my 20s for a while, I declared a corner of the totally-neglected backyard to be The Compost Pile. Which means I just occasionally threw food and houseplant waste there - nobody else did.
To this day, that corner of yard grows my father's beloved Kentucky bluegrass like it's a weed. I mean literally, it needs a weedwhacker more than a lawnmower, it's that thick. He doesn't water it. He doesn't feed it. He doesn't do sh*t to it but cuss about how fast the grass grows.
Meanwhile, his oh-so-manicured-and-treated front lawn has bare patches and brown spots and is sparse and unhealthy, and gets watered all the time and lots of store bought brews dumped on it.
Did he figure it out and just start dropping compost? Nope.
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