I wish I would have found this site earlier. I like the idea of the
Hugelkultur. By the time it dries up enough for me to start this I am afraid it will be to late and my time to build it will be limited also. But, planning for next year will give me more time to read more here before setting one up.
This year I am going to stick with the conventional garden. I was at a
local green house which is probably a bad place to ask for help if you are trying to improve your garden and keep it as organic as possible. but I have a spot which I have planted for a few years which gives me good results, but it is falling off and the area around it isn't giving good results. s the soil seem to pack just from the rain. we have three horses and 10 years of manure minus what I have put on the garden.
Is aged horse manure a good thing to use? How much is to much?
green house people recommended to till in Gypsum pellets and pine bark
mulch
Is the gypsum OK?
Is Pine bark mulch good? I'm afraid of what pesticides may be in it and if it will remove nitrogen plus I have searched the net for tilling pine bark mulch into the
garden bed and found nothing