I have to laugh with this thread. It is really hard to get to the top of my Hugel mounds. I have to walk along the ridge to pull weeds. (Oops, do permies pull weeds?). The mounds are too wide at the base for me to reach over to the top. I think I was partly just too timid to build as tall as Sepp suggests. Or, the soil sliding situation deters me. I don't mind getting a bit of a stretch though and it's all good, right? I have lot's of mistakes that I plan to let nature sort out for me over time.
