What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Today I'm going to be talking about

Hoogel culture, which is a funky little word and it's an interesting growing method.

So what it means is Hill Culture or Hill Mound. So that makes it a raised

bed gardening technique. And so what you're doing here is instead of putting the

branches, the leaves, all the grass clippings, etc.

By the curbside for someone to take away or maybe even throwing it in your compost,

what you do is you build a hoogle bed.

And what a hoagel bed means in English is that you mound logs, then branches,

leaves, grass clippings, straw, cardboard, petroleum-free newspaper, manure, compost, etc.

Then you top it that all, whatever that mixture is that you add in there with soil and then

you plant your veggies. So what's going to

happen is that those logs in the very center of the hugulculture bed are going

to decay over a very long period of time and they're going to be extremely long-term nutrient

release for the plants. So a large bed, a large hugl culture bed will actually give

out nutrients for upwards of two decades.

And if you use hardwoods, actually it's even longer than that.

The wood composting process takes such a long time that it know it's going to be putting out

nutrients for that period of time and the composting wood will generate heat

which means that you can grow later on into the growing season.

So fall and winter, maybe those are a bit more accessible seasons for you now

because of the hugl culture beds.

Now another benefit of these logs and branches

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