The Hugelkultur Project Part 2

Part Two of the Hugelkultur Project has a lot going on. Some of the stuff I cover includes

Dealing with the "nitrogen trap" effet
Turning in an existing warm weather cover crop
Planting a cold season cover crop
Success and failure thus far with the project
Using and inoculant for legumes
Damage by the neighbor's dog
Why I used boxed in beds for this part of the project
Using many varieties of seeds for cover cropping
How legumes fix and share nitrogen
How one cover crop can nurse the next one
How winter kill can work for you

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• hugelkultur
• permaculture
• gardening
• cover crop
• buckwheat
• cowpea
• triticale
• oats
• red clover
• nitrogen fixation

[turuanu]

Great vid, I wish I had come across it 6 months ago. I thought that legumes fix nitrogen while alive.

[survivalpodcasting]

@turuanu Well they do, just on their roots and other than via fungal hyphe action and some pulsing it doesn't generally become bio-available to other plants in the system. There is a contribution it is just minimal. Pruning though causes pulsing so say when perennial clover is mowed or a legume tree heavily pruned, the roots "pulse" by self pruning. Geoff Lawton's food forest video goes pretty deep into this.

[onesojourner]

Is that a raccoon back there or a really fat cat?at about 9 min...

[survivalpodcasting]

@onesojourner - It's a cat but he really isn't fat. He's an old man (about 19 best we can estimate) and as a neutered male his lower half kind of hangs but he really isn't fat. LOL, he is about 11 lbs which is about where he has always been. Still a great mouser even at such an advanced age.

[KaBar762]

Interesting video. Your camera man sure is panting a lot. :)

[survivalpodcasting]

@KaBar762 LOL that is Max of course, did you see part three yet where he tbones the camera tripod twice?

[terrymccuaig]

Thank you so much. Your video is more explanatory than Masanobu Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution and Paul Wheaton's site. After watching, I feel like I can do this correctly, even though I'm a complete novice.

[MrSelfsufficiency]

Like the approach taken with multiple cover crops. Have you had any problems with squirrels, rabbits, deer or other animals (besides the neighbor dog) getting into your beds? Last year I had some animal that would take my tomato whole just as it got ripe (could have been a two legged one..).

[aschwinwesselius]

Great video on the covercrop etcetera. But bugweed, isn't that a nightshade like tomatoes? I guess it's not a best practice to have tomatoes, capsicum, chilipepper or even aubergine or potatoes on the same bed where the bugweed has been grown. What's your idea about it? I avoid nightshades as the plague because to much builds up as toxins in the body and in the soil.

[therawlifefamily]

How much food production do you get from your beds?

[sarge062]

Enjoying ,keep it up

[DesertDood]

@survivalpodcasting Happy Thanksgiving Jack, Family and friends

[slomotrainwreck]

Really interesting video, can't wait to see the future results!

Best wishes.

[onesojourner]

@survivalpodcasting I figured but a racoon would have been awesome. We had an old cat that had that exact same hanging thing.