Traci rockart landscaping

09/07/2025

Joyous lil green patches

09/07/2025

Dreaming a new green eden into being...

12/10/2024

New things starting to dream themselves into beingness...just add love and a little water...and a big dollop of hope..

12/10/2024

Joyous blooms

12/10/2024

21/07/2024

Another cooker of a day on the lil rock,gratitude for the pockets of green i maintain

21/07/2024

21/07/2024

And so the lil forest grows and shines in the morning sun

08/01/2024

Done Hello, It's official. Signed at 2:10…It even came on TV.
Mine turned blue.
Don't forget, the new Facebook rule starts tomorrow (aka... new name META) where they can use your photos. Don't forget the deadline is today!!!
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This will bypass the system...

He who does nothing agrees.

19/04/2023

Hugelkultur, pronounced Hoo-gul-culture, means hill culture or hill mound. We call the little ones Huggies down in Carondelet and they are a great way to start utilizing these fantastic techniques, but on the smaller scale

Instead of putting branches, leaves and grass clippings in bags by the curbside for the bin men... build a hugel bed. Simply mound logs, branches, leaves, grass clippings, straw, cardboard, petroleum-free newspaper, or whatever other biomass you have available, top with manure and compost and plant your veggies.
The compost I usually use to cover them is five-year-old leaf mulch

The advantages of a hugel bed are many, including:

The gradual decay of wood is a consistent source of long-term nutrients for the plants. A large bed might give out a constant supply of nutrients for 20 years (or even longer if you use only hardwoods). The composting wood also generates heat which should extend the growing season.

Soil aeration increases as those branches and logs break down... meaning the bed will be no till, long term.

You will use less water watering . I The logs and branches act like a sponge. Rainwater is stored and then released during drier times. Actually you may never need to water your hugel bed for a long time after the first year (except during long term droughts). This, of course would depend on your annual rainfall.

Sequester carbon into the soil.

On a sod lawn we recommend cutting out the sod, digging a one foot deep trench and filling the trench with logs and branches. Then cover the logs with the upside down turf. On top of the turf add grass clippings, seaweed, compost, aged manure, straw, green leaves, mulch, etc...

This one here is a Garlic " Huggie " located in the Forest Park area of St. Louis.