Wow. So, hugel update: the hugel is master of gardens. You may remember the pictures from when we first built our burial mound...uh, I mean hugelkultur. Now look at it!
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| Here lies our ancient king. Kidding, kidding... |
Just look at it!
We aren't pulling the grasses up, because they are holding in the soil on the mound. These plants are getting enormous. Check it out!
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| ...and that's with my hand slightly closer to the camera! |
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Mr. Gnomey is being dwarfed by the plants. Heh.
(Don't even act like I don't know the difference between gnomes and dwarves. I'm just using some fanciful language.) |
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| Plant fight! Intense! |
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| So many flowers! |
We planted three tiny tomato sprouts that we grew from seeds into the east side of the hugel, just to see how well they would do. Here are some small tomato plants we sprouted from seed that we planted in the normal old non-hugel ground:
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| There, in the center of the tomato cage. =/ |
Now look at them in the hugel:
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| Woah. |
These were started from the same seeds at the same time, planted at the same time, and basically everything is the same except the first picture is in the ground and the second is in the hugelkultur. !!
So there you have it. I'm convinced. Hugel > normal ol' dumb ol' flat ground. Anyone who has been using the hugel method, I would love to hear about your progress!
