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Surrounded the hugelkulture garden with some logs to tidy things up. As they rot they'll just become part of the wood that feeds the garden. Looks a little more civilized. LOL. Chips in between are half done since the photo. Started on Saturday and went bear hunting by Sunday afternoon. Winning. Ya'll have raised beds?

The first couple seasons it's looked like this




After

Cool

I did two 20'x20' raised boxes out of redwood about 5 years ago. They're holding up well. I need to change my irrigation this year. I have sprinklers in each corner but I want to change to drip lines to try to keep weeds down.

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I like it

Looks good! As we design our new home I’m not doing anything that requires me to have to bend over to work. I’ll be putting in a couple large greenhouses with automated watering and HPS & MH lights. I’m tired of back surgeries so everything in our new place will be setup for the future which means as much simplicity with as little work and discomfort as possible. This next build will be our LAST but at 53 I figure I have another 50 good years left…

I have raised bed and wicking buckets.
Have to be somewhat careful of those hugleculture (sp) beds. If the wood is too "new" they can rob the bed of nitrogen. My soil sample showed as much anyway.

No wonder those redwoods grow so big,u couldnt find that much dirt in a acre of central Texas.Looks like u gonna have some goodies this fall.Good start!

Well Ballz, this is the first post of yours I actually like.


You did a great job with the raised beds. What are the metal contraptions in the right bed? Looks like a floating chicken coop, but I assume it's just tomato cages or something.

Aces, read up on passive solar green houses if you are not familiar. I enjoyed this thread!

Still freezing nights here.

We need rain desperate here

We are gonna need some moisture soon as well.


Nasty wind yesterday and it got a bunch of soil from a big field blow up in the air. Made a helluva dust cloud and people were calling the fire dept thinking it was smoke.

In the spring of 67 the dirt drifted as high as the woven wire on the fences.

Grapes of Raft

Kilt two stoanes with won bird

Tomato cages. Repurposed metalwork welded into the shapes shown. It has a bunch of cross bars that can be moved wherever they're needed.

Llama manure should fix it right up.

That’s some stellar manure, balls!

Put chikin schit in ours

Looks ghetto

Aces, I like your logic. My brother is realizing this kind of logic. He's been looking for a house for about 3 years, but has now decided to build. He's thinking about staying there for the duration, so is now considering wider doorways and no elevation steps from garage and front entrance and so forth.

Watch the details like threasholds . I did a big addition for some folks and all the floor treatments were flush with one another with no strips on the joints . He did not want his wife to trip. A brooken hip is a bad deal.

LD & Alan…. I totally agree with you both about wider doorways and hallways as well as no “elevation” hazards like thresholds and showers with no obstacles. My wife and I are looking at home designs and while she is interested in the fun stuff I’m focused on the mechanical aspects as well as future practical aspects. I was just talking to her about wider hallways and doorways and no trip thresholds. It seems like stuff that is so far off as to be worth little consideration but I’m a safety conscious guy so I’m planning for our future. Her dad had Alzheimer’s and we eventually had to move him into a secure place because he “wandered”. My wife worries about the genetic aspect of Alzheimer’s but I don’t….not much anyway. I did tell her that irregardless of the things we can’t stop I’m never…ever leaving her side so this home will be able to be easily converted into a secure memory care “facility” if the need arises. I’ll be her caregiver if that’s what the future holds and I’ll thank God that I had the foresight to anticipate every contingency. We’re both very healthy, thankfully, but I’m ready for whatever the Good Lord sends our way! I want a life of convenience as we grow older which means doing mostly only the stuff that we enjoy and minimizing work….something I’ve been lucky to avoid so far. 😂

We don’t eat much processed food as it is but the more we can grow, catch and kill ourselves should aid in growing old gracefully. Not going to the doctor and avoiding big pharma should increase our chances for a long life. Our new home will be a single story with a spacious attached guest house….for whatever. We will be in this new place until our days here are over. We don’t want our children to have to deal with the crap that life down here forces on us. They don’t need to worry about mortgages and taxes and traffic and crime if we build our family “compound” intelligently. They are just beginning their adult lives and I’m gonna make damn sure that they have at least as much fun as I’ve had. 👍🏼

Looking really good, Fireball. You’ve put a lot of sweat equity into your place and it shows.

This! If doing a hugleculture I'd definitely do some periodic soil testing to keep up on the C:N ratio.

Looks good Roy.


I've been trying to talk my folks into letting me build raised beds for them because they do not get around very well anymore but my Dad, at 88, is too damn stubborn and would rather fall into his tomato plants...

The soil for this garden came from a forest cleanup a buddy was doing when he was carving in an RV park. Very old rotten wood mixed with all the scrapings off the top few inches of the forest floor. It's well past the nitrogen using stage into the producing stage. We supplement the soil every year with all kinds of grass clippings, leaves, mulch, or manure.

I'm not much of a gardener but it's enjoyable.

You'll have to update this thread with pics when everything grows.

Cool project. Tech tip stick with your manure and chips. Although tempting, adding a bunch of chemie fertilizer will actually go against the mycelium and bacteria magic that you've made there.

That's what I was just about to say...