tall and narrow hugelkultur with volunteer potatoes and round wood timber framing

Paul takes the viewer on a walking tour around the basecamp hugelkultur bed and explains why it was necessary to build a mound that was very tall and narrow to accommodate the space they had. Paul points out potatoes growing on the bed that were probably originally part of their kitchen scraps composted into the mound.

Paul shows the "siege ladder" scaffolding that they are building onto the mound to allow access to the upper portion of the bed. The visual tour continues showcasing various other types of plant life are growing on the bed with no irrigation. Paul points out asparagus, rhubarb, "Sepp Holzer Grain", comfrey , strawberries and fruit trees, including peach trees!

A bit about angle of repose. Hugelkultur should have really steep sides, and this is done by having a lot of criss-cross wood on the inside providing structural integrity.

A peach tree started from a peach pit.

This is a solution to a property that is solid rock next to a road. zero soil leads to zero garden. The desire to "delete the road" begs for a tall berm. But since the location is a narrow shelf carved out of rock means that the berm (or hugelkultur) will be narrow.

Sepp Holzer wants hugelkultur to have steep sides.

Since this is generally unirrigated, then the plants go through a "bootcamp" where they either make it through the summer or they don't. Only the plants that can make it are kept.

Asparagus is still getting started. Lots of volunteer potatoes, lambs quarters, sepp holzer grain.

Comfrey as mulch; strawberries are ripe;