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A question: any of you has experienced in using resinous wood (i.e. 
maritime pine) in a hugelkulture bed? Is there any risk to acidify the bed?

Thanks, Luca


Il 11/09/2011 7.15, Neil Bertrando ha scritto:
> We built a hugelkultur (~50' x 5' x 2.5' deep) in the high desert (5-10"
> annual precip, winter) which has worked well so far.  We irrigate it and it
> receives little to no runoff.  grew potatoes, squash and beans the first
> year, potatoes the second and seeded with nut and fruit trees in the fall to
> stratify and sprout overwinter, transplanted them out, planted a berry
> polyculture on it this year which is doing ok and we hope to see take well
> over the next two years.  we dug into part of it after a year to put in a
> path and saw slight decomposition of the 2-3" diameter slash but not much on
> larger logs.  no real slumping yet.  has allowed improved drainage in poorly
> drained cobbly clay.
>
> overall, I'd say it's working.  useful for dealing with a buildup of slash
> we had and some soil from a building pad excavation.
>
> we used prunus sp, pinus sp, populus sp, ailanthus (fully dried), and ulmus
> sp.  with some other scraps including a bit of juniper.
>
> cheers,
> neil
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Jason Gerhardt<jasongerhardt@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > All this conversation about huge hugelkulturs leaves me reinvigorated about
> > the concept. I began a hugelkultur about 7 years ago when I lived in the
> > mtns of central Arizona with mostly juniper, pine, straw and soil. I tried
> > over and over to plant it after one year and two years, but nothing I
> > planted would take, so I became discouraged with the concept.  So here are
> > my questions:
> >
> > Has anyone on this list experimented with hugelkultur in arid lands and had
> > success?
> >
> > Does it matter what type of wood one uses?  How about notorious
> > allelopathic
> > woods like walnut and certain types of juniper?
> >
> > I have large design site currently with massive slash piles that I am
> > seeing
> > a higher use for now, but am concerned the hugelkultur concept may not be
> > appropriate for drylands.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
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> > Jason Gerhardt
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