Great podcast. Thanks to anyone involved in making it available. My first year of a pine based hugelkultur has worked out fine. There was some small, maybe inch or smaller diameter, poplar and tagasaste near the top and compost poked into gaps which may have lessened any detrimental pine effect.
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