Arella Landman

Way overgrown ancient pear tree. He gets chopped! It's hard to tell because of the light saturation but these are before and afters.  It was this unsightly and undelicious tree which inspired the desire for hugel beds in the first place!

The three hugel beds are coming along but need to be reworked , to incorporate incoming wood.  After much ado, The last big tree parts came down today and we wore out both chainsaws processing it all!  So now there will be some sort of mad rush in the next 4 days.  We have yet to source desirable fill dirt  , and so completion and planting may have to wait another year!  

A neighbor kindly dropped off one forklift of the local standard hard clay.  ..

And after a few days processing and lugging branches to and fro, etc. Beginning to have a nice form and presence.

Here is the design in progress as I encountered it upon my arrival.   It could be described as a broken Z array.  Three beds measuring 4 to 5 foot across at the base, by 30 to 35 feet long. Final height goal is around 3 to 4 feet but TBD by how much stuff we have to use  . Initial trenches were Dug in 8 to 12 inches.

Somehow I got a new username and account when I bought the 2017 PDC video access.  Landmanii1414 when my original was arella.  Then I posted under new name , and now I'm confused. If possible I'd like to be back  under my original username.   Please help?

Thanks!!