So many questions so little time. I originally posted this question in hugelkulture but it seems to be more relevant here. I am trying to set up a small truffle farm in the Puget Sound area. The soil PH there is between 4.5 to 7 depending on the area so I wanted to make huglekulture on contour and have the soil ph increased to 7.5 to 8. I should be able to do that with aglime but if you have other suggestions I would love to hear them. I also have to be concerned with competing mycorrhizas so I wanted to use the raised hugelkulture beds and set some type of barrier between them and the ground. I don’t have to worry about trees already having arbuscular mycorrhizas because they will not interfere with truffle production. I do have to worry about trees and plants that form ectomycorrhizas because they will compete with truffle production. Any advice you have on this would be greatly appreciated. I really like the idea of the peat and manure mix to start the seedlings. I think I would have to add some aglime or some other amendment to put trace minerals in the mix so the trffules would have something to give back to the seedlings. The soil I would like to produce in the hugelkulture beds are ph 7.3-8.1, bulk density (g/ml) 1.06 +/- 0.12, total calcium % 2.3 – 13.9, extractable calcium (ug/ml) 2000-5000, extractable phosphorus 4-4.2, extractable potassium 80-620, extractable magnesium 135-625, extractable sodium 2-26, extractable sulphur 2-25, extractable iron 40-117, organic carbon % .8-8.8, carbon to nitrogen ratio 10-23.3, and cation exchange capacity (mmol/kg) 1.72 +/- 0.47. This type of soil would be the closest to the Italian white truffle soils I am trying to emulate. I am looking to obtain holly oaks acorns so I can inoculated with Tuber aestivum/uncinatum and maybe some hazelnuts too. Thanks for any help you can give.