Rural Gardening: On the May Homestead, 1 by podster

podster wrote:
So far they have done great! They are surrounded with landscape timbers.

The Hugelkulture bed has 7 tomatoes, Malabar spinach and herbs. I excavated as deep as I could and added rotting hardwood. It was doughty and before I put the dirt back in, I soaked the wood with water. In theory, it holds water and the roots will reach down and into the rotting wood. I haven't had to water it yet so maybe.

The other was built up with layers of dirt, cardboard, compost and more. In it I planted, 15 tomatoes, 4 pimentos, 8 cukes, a patch of improved pintos, a trellis of Fortex beans, two par-cels, Egyptian onions, two dills, 3 eggplant ,3 canteloupe, 2 pan squash, 2 pumpkin and some herbs. How is that for ambitious in an 8 x 10. lol After planting and watering well, I mulched it with pinestraw. It is holding the moisture really well also. No complaints thus far. Other than I ran out of room to plant the okra. I need to dig up the multiplier onion bed and replant with okra plants in that bed, I guess.

This photo is the Hugelkulture bed. I am holding my breath till it rains hard because we have wilt in the soil. I am hoping these will be resistant. Or maybe it will never rain... 8 )