Practical Permaculture for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth by Jessi Bloom

Author:Jessi Bloom [Bloom, Jessi and Boehnlein, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2015-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

FOOD AND YARD WASTE

The earlier chapter on soil fertility has already explored many ways to cycle food and yard waste back into your system. Here we will mention just one more great way to use woody debris from pruning, plant removals, and other general gardening tasks. Hügelkultur, roughly meaning mound culture in German, refers to a method of mounding coarse organic material in layers and covering it with soil to create a bed for growing crops. This method can be applied at many scales.

Creating a hügelkultur bed is a simple process of layering organic material of different coarseness, starting with larger woody material like logs and twigs, and then layering finer material on top. The finer layer could be manure, compost, or other organic matter, then finally topsoil. You can plant directly into the soil and mulch with wood chips or straw. As the plants grow, they draw moisture and nutrients from the layers of organic material slowly breaking down inside the mound.

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