Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>]

Claudia, I'm such of a fan of hugelkulture. For us, this has been found to 
be the way to go.  I'm going to revive poor beds this fall using the method. 
I also planted potatoes in one new hugelkulture bed and so far the plants 
are amazingly healthy considering the heat and lack of rain.

 I've found that making pots of cardboard or paper and setting these down 
into the new hugelkulture beds and planting the pots with melons works well. 
Hugelkulture beds are a little challenging the first year if you want to 
plant more than potatoes down into them but the pots allow plants to get a 
foothold and as the bed degrades, the pots degrade allowing the roots of the 
plants to find more space.

Laura
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