I would never have understood without that video.
Thanks!

I'm glad you liked it!

canadanna said:I would never have understood without that video.
Thanks!

- Loved the video.

When you guys do your podcasts, there are several times throughout your podcasts that I'm thinking... hmmm, I wish they would video that for us

Thank you Trish and Dave, for showing us

vic said:When you guys do your podcasts, there are several times throughout your podcasts that I'm thinking... hmmm, I wish they would video that for us

Make sure you let us know when that happens! We want to make videos!

Thanks Trish and Dave. Showing the process is so helpful. Adding some soil to beds to help hold water is interesting too. Part process, part experiment. Do you have clay in your soil?

Okey Dokey Dave, I'll start making notes. I'm such a visual person when it comes to learning.

eclayne said:Thanks Trish and Dave. Showing the process is so helpful. Adding some soil to beds to help hold water is interesting too. Part process, part experiment. Do you have clay in your soil?

This is something I could spend a long time talking about, actually. Our soil in East Texas is widely variable and even just 20 feet apart from each other you can have land go from pure sand all the way down over to solid clay. It's really strange, actually. We have an area we call the sand garden because it's pure sand, and we have the "red garden" because it's a nice red loamy clay.

Mixing the reddish clay soil with compost produces the best garden soil you can imagine. I think at this point we've pretty much nailed the technique and we've seen dramatic improvements in our gardening in the last year thanks to that. We should do a podcast about our soil so we can geek out on it and talk about it for half an hour.

dave said:We should do a podcast about our soil so we can geek out on it and talk about it for half an hour.

Perfect! Please!

Yes! Please DO!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million

Great video! Great addition to ATP, too! Yay!

Looking forward to more and more and more....

Shoe
(who listened to an ATP podcast this morning, an ATP video this afternoon...a nice "double-treat!")

You'll enjoy next Saturday's video, too.

Yeehaw,,,Looking forward to it!

Dave or Trish - have you heard of anyone doing Hugelkultur in the deserts? I tend to think that the wood would take *forever* to break down due to the lack of moisture.

Hugelkultur is very popular in some of the western states like Montana. Up there, I know that the custom is to make the beds dramatically huge, like 6 feet tall. The sheer size of the beds means that the interior of them stay moist even when there is a prolonged drought.

I think also by orienting them so that the faces don't get punished by the sun, coupled with appropriate mulching, would do wonders.

Good question Sheryl & great answer Dave; especially the last part about the orientation to the sun.

Thanks! As I'm digging into a large pile of dirt and rocks, I think I'll incorporate some branches in the back fill.

Watch that heat & sun Sheryl!!!!! Stay well hydrated.

LOL - I'm in vampire mode right now - only come out at night!

Seriously, though - I have been very careful, wearing more sunblock than ever, drinking lotsa ice tea. Learned 'bout that in the South, ma'm!