drdawg said:I was not familiar with the term, hugelkultur.,
The theory behind hugelkultur is to create a very large raised bed of mostly waste logs. and some other yard waste. often creating a very raised bed.
The first year isn't a hugel bed most fertile. On subsequent years the logs go mostly rotten and punky, which holds water. The intent is more to store water than add fertility.
Claims of never watering the bed again has never proved true for me.
It will be several years before you can till a hugelkultur bed again, so liberal mulching is also in order.
IMO they look like a volkswagon grave yard. If you bury your hugelkultur bed enough you run the risk of an anerobic sink. I never got that on sandy soil, and have not tried it on Ohioan clay. So this last is one I can report but have no direct experience with (anerobic problems)
