Dave and Trish...
Just now reading the spring updates on your beds. Looks really great and I'm happy to see such fantastic progress on the hugel swales/beds.

"...built too many hugelkultur beds to count." Hah! Well, you may have lost count but I don't think you can have too many hugelkultur beds, eh?

I recently dug (plowed) a huge swale at the lower end of my garden. Guess I better get on the bandwagon and do some hugel-ing with it.

Enjoyed the recent article with Margaret Roach also, which brought me back to this article/update.

Again, congrats on your beds and big time thanks for sharing with others on ATP and elsewhere.

Best you to and yours!
Shoe

Shoe I think you're the first to notice my update; just added that info a few days ago. Thanks for the compliments; we're really loving these beds and we're using the technique everywhere. You should see our veggie garden now. It's pretty crazy, but we're getting a lot of production!

Your swale sounds interesting. Even without hugelkultur, it'll do well since it'll hold the rainwater for longer. Have you planted into it yet? I'd be looking at some kind of southern pea (purple hull peas or cowpeas) for its first year.

Howdy..
It's taking me a while to get back here but it's the "outdoor season" so it's not my fault!

Nope, haven't planted anything near my swale yet. It's very clay-ey and also at my most shady area. I'm sure I'll have but break it up a bit before planting something there.

Looking forward to pics of your veggie garden this year.

Howdy again Shoe, it's a pleasure to get to "see you" during the busy season!!

Here's a photo from a couple weeks ago of a new garden area we made. Lots of big beds and we're growing tomatoes mostly in this area. Starting this fall it will have a lot more perennials planted. We're doing a lot more mixed plantings these days, rather than rows of single plants. You can't see it but we have borage, basil and much more growing all through the tomato beds.

Looks good to me! Still wish I had a few rolls of that hay/straw.

Thanks for the reminder, I have a huge amount of borage seed I should be sowing; maybe this weekend if the rain ever stops. Plus here it is a mere 48 degrees this morning, in May~! Sheesh.

Loaded up, and bundled up with flannel shirt and jacket and off to market.

Happy Gardening

Good selling!!

I also am digging the update.. I started the hugelkulture page on FB and just added your page here to the ABOUT section, cause it's that good! Excellent work!

wait - there's a hugelkultur page on FB? LInk, please?

Yes, a link please.

And thank you for the compliments. The article gets visits every day and that's why I post frequent updates to it. I guess it's really a living article, at this point.

and welcome to ATP, Roxanne!

Here's the link to the FB page
https://www.facebook.com/pages...
Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for the link, Roxanne - this is fascinating - guess what I'll be doing if spring ever arrives...