Category: Hugelkultur

Hello!
What a contrast in weather today! I probably got sunburnt!
Glorious!
Didn’t do the gardening I failed to do yesterday…

Jeff got stuck in with the chainsaw and axe and cut a lot more wood.
I moved a lot of it. We also finished off our day with a lap around the river track too!
I might hurt now. 😀

The wood pile still growing. The big logs at the front left for splitting later.

I thought I would start to put together feed bags full of chunky awkward offcuts to set aside then sell as campfire wood once dry.

I filled the big box in the bbq area today – which freed up another pallet to store the bigger wood.
Then of the wood that Jeff split today, the drier stuff I stored on the back veranda –

We don’t have a fire every night now – Pip is not pleased since he gets deprived of the warm towel!!
But we have about run out of dry wood so it was nice to have another small stock ready for those cold snaps

The heavier wood I just stored under the roof of the hothouse.

I did a little bit of gardening… very excited to plant something in the Huggle Monster at last!
My apple cucumber seedlings were not progressing in their pots – time to go out.
I put some of that lovely composted straw down first before topping with a bit of the soil mix and planting the seedlings into it.

They got a bit of a watering and of course, covered up this evening.
I am really hoping I get some success here – I enjoy trying new things and these have been a long time in the making. The idea will be for the seedlings to spread out and cover the mound.

I’ll continue at times to top up the Hugelkultur beds with compost, manure and straw.

Very excited to discover carrot and beetroot seedlings today!

So far so good on the zucchini’s

Still no second potato patch dug, but these guys are looking happy.

Can you see a little splash of blue sitting on top of my snow pea branch trellis? A lovely wren sat there are tweetled his heart out! His crest was all up too! A few hen-wrens came around attracted to his songs! Was really lovely!

My poor neglected wisteria has some flowers!

The plum trees are amazing! Can’t wait!

I am not sick of standing under the fluffy cherry blossoms and enjoying them!

I hope your day has been at least as lovely as mine – just with less aching muscles! haha
Cheers!!

Todays weather was as gorgeous as yesterday was dismal!!
I thought I could work on the Huggle 🙂
Chopping and shaping more stakes – I quite like this process!

Then off to start pruning the snowball bushes to get some weaving materials.

This was the point where I was wondering how much of a pain this was going to be and mentally putting the blame squarely on Mavis from One Hundred Dollars a Month’s shoulders for putting the idea into my head haha.

Actually, really not too bad. It probably would have helped to google it and watched others do it to get some tips, but I don’t mind learning curves.

For my next one I will put the stakes much closer together to make the weaving easier.

Since I hadn’t disposed of Tentaculars vines I thought I might try to use some of those to see how they went.

Once the leaves fall off, it will add extra mulch and hopefully the vines won’t be too brittle…??
I am now doing a bit of a mix of both materials

Really hoping this doesn’t look completely lame when I am done!!! Once I have it up to a height that I am happy with, I’ll cut all the stakes off to a similar length.
You can probably tell I also added a layer of straw to the ever-growing hugelkultur!!

I reckon I’ll be adding a layer of mushroom compost in the spring, but for now, apart from the fence, this Huggle-Monster is free to rest and compost its little heart out over winter!
Have a great day!
Cheers