i need good pictures of hugelkultur beds for an article i'm writing

- 12 beds created this year. More to come.

I have a permaculture forest/swamp garden, and all my garden beds are raised hugelkultur beds. Half are built out into the swamp while the others are made up on dry land. I have posted pics of my garden from the very beginning until now, three years later, on my pinterest board. I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to make images show up here on this site. I will share the link to my board and give permission for any of the images to be used if you like them.

https://www.pinterest.com/kkennedymason/my-permaculture-garden-in-progress/

I added this hugelkultur bed on my 3/4 acre urban lot in the spring of 2012. I didn't dig it in, but covered with the dirt I dug out to create a rain garden (the rain garden is the area covered with burlap in the background of one of the pictures.

I tried to use mostly ramial branch wood for the preferable carbon to nitrogen ratio bc I planned to plant in the bed right away and was concerned about the wood "robbing" nitrogen from the soil.

Turns out that year we had a serious drought. I found the plants in the hugel bed were able to withstand long periods without rain or irrigation much better than other deep sheet mulched beds.

I have posted several pictures at https://permies.com/t/50120/hugelkultur/Tricks-Dirt-Sliding-Hugel from start to finish, plus a download that was the basis for an article I wrote for Back Home Magazine. Feel free to use them.

I haven't planted into it yet and I may add more dirt but here's my hugelkultur bed. I want to sow some garlic into it for spring.

My attempt at Hugel Blueberries!

Here is one of my mounds... it is now over 2 years old. This years tomato's were 2 times bigger than the tomato's i had in my raised beds. The Okra grew to well over 5 feet.

One More.. My round mound as i call it... The last pic is early this spring... You can see the borage and nasturtiums, both of which reseeded themselves from last year. I have lettuce on top which did really well.. The cantaloupe did really well this year on this mound. I had just planted them when i took this pic, so you cant really see them. I also had lovage and peppers on the other side of the mound which is not visible.

Here are some photos I took of the small hugelkultur mound I build this spring. Just a helpful note: don't use poison ivy for your green material unless you bury it really well....

Here's some pictures I have. More at Spirit Mountain Farm.

The Place Of Gathering picture is where I first started working with Sepp. Utopia Borealis has just completed extensive earthworks last month.

This is the first Hugelkultur bed since I moved out on my new farm. I've built others but didn't take as many pictures of the building process. The wind can get crazy out here, so I chose to wet the outer layer of soil and spread it on. Spreading the wet soil on also helped with making the bed steeper, the only drawback being that when it dried it was hard and resembled a desert. The plants didn't seem to mind after being planted in soft soil pockets, and then when the bed was mulched with straw the soil softened up again. The yield was great and I'm sure the bed will produce even better in the years to come..

A few hugels for Cas.

And one more for Cas

This falls hugel bed.