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[Evan <kodama@riseup.net>]

Two of the hugels I dug this spring were along the course of an old drainage 
ditch (maybe at 20˚ from horizontal, only about 12" deep at this point). I 
dug them along the contour and across the ditch, about 12' apart. They're 
only about 12' and 15' long, respectively, and 3' wide, and 4' tall. Compared 
to many of these beds I'm reading about, maybe this doesn't even constitute a 
hugel, but it took a good lot of wood for each of them and one way or another 
I like the shape of them. But with the early spring rains here (I can't find 
rainfall totals for this spring, but it's not uncommon to get 7-10" of rain 
in May), both held up marvelously without any trouble while other parts of 
the the land had some washouts. For my situation they seem to work for 
slowing down water and I hope to dig more around the place to deal with other 
difficult spots. I should note I live in the Appalachian mountains, so slopes 
are basically the story of the terrain most everywhere.

cheers,
Evan

On Sep 9, 2011, at 8:43 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> Skeeter, what was the dimensions of your eggplant hugelkultur?
> 
> Also wondering if one could build these in existing erosion gullies if
> one addressed the erosion at the same time.  I'm trying my damndest to
> keep big machinery off my new vineyard but it would be fun to
> integrate this into some of the areas in the bottomlands where years
> of cattle pasturing has created some erosion issues.
> 
> ~mIEKAL
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   I just built one last month and it is already bearing eggplants. The
> concept works at many scales.
>> 
>> Michael Pilarski
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