posted 5 years ago
Our land is overgrown with Amur bush honeysuckle and we’re slowly working to clear it to make way for more diverse and beneficial trees and shrubs. Cutting it is easy enough, problem is what to do with it all?! We’ve turned several into biochar. We chipped some for mulch. But both of those required hauling it quite a ways. And that was only a tiny fraction of the honeysuckle here.
I’ve been wondering if I could turn it into hugels nearby where I am dropping it. I know some folks say it is alllelopathic, so there’s a slight concern about whether that’s an issue. Even if it is, won’t those chemicals break down over time?
If that’s a non-issue, it seems like honeysuckle hugels could be a great strategy for turning this “problem” plant into something cool.
Has anyone else tried this? Anything else I might need to consider?
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer