Iterations are fine, we don't have to be perfect
Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
Stay calm and be positive
"Hundreds of years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the type of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that it becomes a tourist destination"
A build too cool to miss:Mike's GreenhouseA great example:Joseph's Garden
All the soil info you'll ever need:
Redhawk's excellent soil-building series
s. ayalp wrote:Please don't leave them. Whatever you bury will eventually come back to the surface and become a hazard. Instead of corroding away some of those nails will corrode into very long, thin and very sharp shapes. Those are a lovely invitation to some nasty cuts and, at worst, to tetanus. Instead of burying, you can burn that pile and use the ash in the garden. It will be very easy to remove nails and metals from it by a magnet.
Trace Oswald wrote:I would take out the treated wood and plywood and bury it, nails and all.
The wishbone never could replace the backbone.
Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Sonja Draven wrote:So it's okay to use old plywood and treated wood in a hugelkultur? I haven't seen that other places here. Are there cautions on what you would plant in it if you do? I have an old shed that I'm reclaiming from ivy and it definitely can't be used for anything else (WAY more disintegrated than the wood in the pictures here).
was to remove the treated wood and plywood and bury every thing else nails and all.I would take out the treated wood and plywood and bury it, nails and all.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
The wishbone never could replace the backbone.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but, I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Just. Build. The. Damn. Thing!
Silence is Golden