Hi folks,
When Sandy hit us a number of years ago, we were lucky not to lose any of our big kids on the property. Every single oak stood strong, even though a tornado came over the top of the hill (we are nestled in a forest knoll) and took down a swath of 100 foot tall oaks and other hardwoods about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, circling right around our property in a circle.
Along our back
fence, which is way too close to our back door neighbor, we planted a row of arbor vitae
trees, which provided a good amount of privacy. They grew true and strong, but the storm did in 3 of them, and since we were unemployed at the time (for 5 years....yeah) and they didn't hit our house and could be covered by insurance, they have stayed laying on their sides, and happily living for all this time, cutting off the entire side
yard, which I am now reclaiming.
Long story short, lol the blue jay nestlings have flown from the back of the house, which have held me back from chainsawing these three trees into chunks and getting them the heck off my patio. Planting
native cedars in their place because dayum none of these trees do well in the snow when they get over twenty feet tall.
Anyway, long story for a short question. I have heard NOT to use cedar in a hugelkultur--don't know why. I also wonder if Arbor Vitae, which is obviously not a native cedar, but rather similar is also a no=no in hugels? I want to get rid of these trees and move on to patio clean up, and if I can use them in a
hugel I want to do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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