We all like to add biomass to beds this goes double for hugelkultur, know what your adding in the soil. You don't want problems to deal with for years
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@dobrovik8 жыл бұрын
this is the kind of youtube post that makes youtube worth having
@mylink.orb174 жыл бұрын
Hear, hear!
@kelleymcbride46333 жыл бұрын
Great video, we had the same issue with wisteria on our new farm. You can leave a branch laying anywhere and it will grow be mindful of what goes into your compost pile and hugel beds! 👨🌾🌞🤙
@sly2kusa7 жыл бұрын
Turn it in to charcoal and then make biochar. Easiest thing to do with any woody material.
@castleofcostamesa82915 жыл бұрын
sly2kusa too bad I live in a city and cannot burn things in my yard without alerting the fire department!
@studiohq5 жыл бұрын
Thats the nice way of saying .."Kill it with fire " ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@LaurelCanyonMojo8 жыл бұрын
I promote hugelkultur for a fencing substitute and have mentioned this phenomenon as a plus for those looking to create hedges.. we use wild rose elder willow hawthorn with wood waste to create nice thick screening that lasts way longer than any fence!.
@davindkap7 жыл бұрын
Roxanne Sterling-Falkenstein Just Curious, what type of plant would you plant for your fence?
@davindkap7 жыл бұрын
Roxanne Sterling-Falkenstein What type of fence are you thinking of?
@mylink.orb174 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@yellowbird54114 жыл бұрын
It's probably a good rule of thumb to not put green branches of any kind into a mound. It's just asking for it to sprout. I am making a hugelkultur in large containers, and my choice of fill was to make sure everything was dead, dead, dead. Twigs, leaves, small tiny chunks of branches, all dead.
@SkotColacicco7 жыл бұрын
oh yes. found this to be true for a number of plants like brugmansia. what I've done is let the biomass bake in the sun for a summer before using it in Hugel. that had worked so far, even for privet, and even Bermuda grass!
@KyzusEnillikeenge5 жыл бұрын
Yep... baking in the sun.... i actually farming morning glory this way to produce lots of biomass.
@castleofcostamesa82915 жыл бұрын
Kyzus Enillikeenge wow! Creative!
@reichenkeller75382 жыл бұрын
Even Bermuda grass?! IMPOSSIBLE!
@SkotColacicco2 жыл бұрын
@@reichenkeller7538lol! Even the devil can be contained in the right box
@reichenkeller75382 жыл бұрын
@@SkotColacicco I'm still having trouble believing it.
@ericaspruill84614 жыл бұрын
Thank you! We have SO MUCH privet in our yard it's maddening. We have been putting tree trimmings into our raised beds but never privet. Now I know to avoid it.
@sanjeeva3110764 жыл бұрын
I live in England. I have a lot of English ivy. I never use it for anything unless it has been dried, killed, covered and composted or preferably burned (I might give biochar a go). I have a grudging respect for it, amazing plant in a lot of ways but it should stay where it belongs, in England. Even over here it takes a lot of work to stop it destroying sheds, houses, cities, fences etc, I can imagine how difficult it must be to control it in the Pacific Northwest.
@edwardortman25934 жыл бұрын
That is a great friggin point.... Poplar and cottonwood could also be an issue. I had a friend cut a bunch of green poplar stakes about 6 feet tall and used them in long term vine planting deal in his yard... Everyone of the stakes grew into a tree. lol
@terrymacleod68823 жыл бұрын
arrgh! i just did exactly that. only not stakes but rather green branchs in the bottom of my beds .
@LB-vl3qn6 жыл бұрын
Building my first hugelkultur bed and was thinking of putting in logs from a tree we cut down, as well as photinia trimmings. I think I'll let them die good and dead over the summer and save them or next Spring. Thanks for the reminder. Your frustration is palpable.
@goforgreenliving8 жыл бұрын
That is a very smart tip and way funny. My wife threw some in a wash out ditch and several rooted and blocked the ditch. luckily it was easy to dig up. Thanks for sharing
@gewgulkansuhckitt90867 жыл бұрын
We have a severe privet hedge problem where I live. It's a non-stop battle keeping it from expanding out of the woods and conquering our lawn. The only time I use privet hedge in hugelkultur is with big pieces that are thoroughly dead and have begun to rot. I avoid the little pieces because it's easy for one of the berries to hide in it.
@markwelsch16196 жыл бұрын
I've killed some hard to kill plants by cutting them at ground level and then pounding a tin can over the top of the cut stump. This deprives it of all sun. This has killed everything. Eventually the tin cans will rust out and return to soil, or, you can dig them up after a year or so - just to make sure what you wanted to kill is dead. Restaurant dumpsters often have large tin cans in them - or you can ask the staff to save them for you. Good luck!
@clarkgriffeth31998 жыл бұрын
include in the list of don't add to your hugelkulture, cottonwood - it does the same thing and black walnut that has something in it that kills plants
@alexhalstead88247 жыл бұрын
Clark Griffeth Juglone. I don't know how it's pronounced but that's what Black Walnuts make to kill competitors.
@perkylittleblondeFF7 жыл бұрын
add forsythia to the "do not use" list!.
@charlesmaunder4 жыл бұрын
Cottonwood a great wood to use. Just don't use fresh wood of any kind.
@TUKByV4 жыл бұрын
Alellopathy. Sunflowers sometimes have this effect. I had to stop putting them in my compost.
@kittimcconnell26337 жыл бұрын
Privet is exotic invasive and it trips my "Kill!!" switch. It throws seeds everywhere AND sends out roots to form new shrubs.
@markwelsch16196 жыл бұрын
I've killed some hard to kill plants by cutting them at ground level and then pounding a tin can over the top of the cut stump. This deprives it of all sun. This has killed everything. Eventually the tin cans will rust out and return to soil, or, you can dig them up after a year or so - just to make sure what you wanted to kill is dead.
@AmazingAutist6 жыл бұрын
Mark Welsch Genius.
@jasonsejkora45783 жыл бұрын
I'd recommend getting a wood chipper for the homestead. Stuff like that will get spit out the other end and fry increments and if you leave it out for a few days for it to dry probably won't have big of a problem
@randywatchingbush7 жыл бұрын
Thanks.. about to begin my 1st raised bed in Hugle style and appreciate the reminder as this was already on my mind and Yes, we have this bush you pointed out.. unless it is allowed to dry it will sprout quickly in damp soil.. thanks again and maybe try a chipper if you're in a hurry .
@markwelsch16196 жыл бұрын
I've killed some hard to kill plants by cutting them at ground level and then pounding a tin can over the top of the cut stump. This deprives it of all sun. This has killed everything. Eventually the tin cans will rust out and return to soil, or, you can dig them up after a year or so - just to make sure what you wanted to kill is dead.
@ahteechia26874 жыл бұрын
Simple solution to using such material. Pile them up to dry before using them in the garden bed.
@melindalancaster96488 жыл бұрын
I've had this happen with certain plants so i let them dry out first.
@sanjeeva3110764 жыл бұрын
Works with English ivy
@jasonbean72967 жыл бұрын
in Florida we have ear pod trees that will sprout from cut logs. there's about a half dozen other invasive exotics as well.
@Sehemo1084 ай бұрын
Great tip! Will keep that in mind!
@brendaclee37 жыл бұрын
Darn!! I just built my first Hugelkulture two weeks ago but didn't know about this privet problem. I hope I didn't dump any in my pile. I went around the neighborhood and gathered piles of sticks, stems and other wood to use. Hopefully, there wasn't any privet in it. Thanks for this video.
@TheVictoryHomestead8 жыл бұрын
great advice! Our issue is with Mountain Laurel. Good grief, that stuff just doesn't die!
@guntcheck6 жыл бұрын
I have this stuff here at my farm in Texas. Crazy invasive. A & M University had a study on it that suggested doing as you're doing, pull it up by the roots, dry it, and they advised also chipping it. That is the only natural control, after that, it is herbicide.
@jenniferabel28114 жыл бұрын
Ohhhh, let me laugh with you. My first year in the garden-so excited by the first « seeds » that came up, I lovingly transplanting them all over, watered them faithfully, and eventually discovered that my first sprouts were actually just WEEDS. Bah, Replanted Rhizomes? I’ll raise you Transplanted Weeds!
@2.67acrehomestead28 жыл бұрын
Great tip...I never realized that...Thanks
@dixygrl7 жыл бұрын
Excellent advise! This country girl knows about privy all too well.
@watermelonlalala4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Or, is youtube watching me night and day? I just started sawing off shoots from the fence line today and I have no idea what the shrub type things are but they grow very well on their own. I have some little ditches I was going to throw everything into and then plant on top with the original soil in a mound. Glad I watched this. The only reason I didn't throw them in the ditch already is I was thinking I could use the woody ones to make a DIY cucumber trellis.
@rustyc601 Жыл бұрын
Came across your video looking up hugelkulture ideas. I see someone else mentioned it a bit but it sounds like cooking that sort of thing down to biochar / charcoal would be an idea to use it faster and be sure it wouldn't threaten the bed.
@galennordlund18596 жыл бұрын
Good advice. I haven't had that particular problem but I DID use a bunch of nice straight (privet) sticks as plant markers. They continued to grow very well (better than the 'marked' plants).
@Greenwashedhipppie9 жыл бұрын
Texas prepper 2 feeds privit to sheep. We both have hair sheep and they are not picky. Great channel. Watched all your video's. I wished I had watched you fruit tree shapping for grafts video before I did my fall pruning. I will definitely do that in the future.
@growsomethinwild8 жыл бұрын
I am using this method for the first time. Good to know. Thank You! I will let my invasive Algerian Ivy dry before adding to my beds. I have always composted the Ivy with no problems but if it gets hold I'll have one hot mess to deal with
@vesnasuselrozman76596 жыл бұрын
Hay from Slovenia Europa ! We are ej smal country with 2.000. 000 people. It is forbiden to grow and seed any invazive flovers, trees or bushes here. Goverment chek everything by small plains, and even few damage trees in our big forest must be cut down and remuve or else you pay a big money. Last year it was 650m3 just from us. Every year also children from schools help to destroy invazive bushes and flovers oround area. Lots of us are living above 1000m above sea level. You cant even build what ever you want, as in Amerika wooden houses in forest and have a farm of goats to destroy the woods. My invazive plant in the garden is mint hahaaa... but its not forbiden. Love and kisses from Slovenia.
@CausticVCoso8 жыл бұрын
Great advice. I also have Chinese privet. It is horribly difficult to get rid of.
@frederickbowdler8169 Жыл бұрын
Great advice. I've been warned, thanking you.
@stnr2227 жыл бұрын
Great tip! I hadn't thought f this but there are probably other plants that cause the same problem. Thank you!
@fadeddenims5017 жыл бұрын
I just pulled up raspberry bushes that weren't doing anything because of the dry year. I was going to start a mound with them but after watching your video, I think I am going to stack them and let them dry out and then put them in a mound in the spring. Thanks for the alert.
@MyChilepepper5 жыл бұрын
Can they be soaked in a tub of acidic water to a pickle first? By the way the same with Mexican verbena brush cuttings you cannot use in the hugelmount. They would grow so fast and chokehold you when you walk by. I tried getting rid of an ash tree stump about 15" diameter by inoculating it with oyster mushroom spawn dowels and It gave us some edible mushrooms every fall.
@sandy-rr1by3 жыл бұрын
privett stunt matches my dumb stunt of cuttin down a crape myrtle, tossed it in empty raised bed to dry out. i thot dead enough, so covered with thick cardboard, LOTS OF NEW bagged soil, planted seeds and sat back to await the veggies! came over other day to start pulling out the veg bushes and...yep, a bucket load of baby crape myrtle shoots. i am currently digging out 2' deep by 10' long bed of dirt and sifting into bins to store til i get this mess cleaned out. also finding thin thickets of roots grown thru the 2 layers of ground cloth i lined bed with. there was never anything but grass in this spot so i'm concerned the crapes are now in the ground. premo prep job but really messed up using the crape myrtle as filler. the growth is on the largest branches, not the thin limbs, so maybe it just wasnt quite dead. used a ton of cardboard. some real nice dirt at the bottom tho!!!
@ap23724 жыл бұрын
Make a rocket stove and burn all those sticks when cooking your meals
@valley36217 жыл бұрын
I'd cut it down, sheet mulch over the stump with cardboard and throw a tarp over the cuttings. I've thought about planting Russian Olive as a nitrogen fixer, and I still may but they are considered invasive in this area. I've got two hugelkultur mounds in their first year. I put a ton of wildflower seeds and bush beans in with the intention of sheet mulching in the fall. We've had so much rain they look like chia pets.
@katiewenta7 жыл бұрын
After watching a KZfaq vid about taking hardwood cuttings, putting them in a bottle and getting them to root just w/ a little water - and then using some green wood as stakes and having them leaf out just months later - I've realized I probably need to just use wood that's dried over several seasons. 😳 I think Mulberry is def one of these types of trees/woods you'd want to watch out for....
@yellowbird54114 жыл бұрын
And here I am trying to grow mulberry trees......
@Pink_Noodle2 жыл бұрын
@@yellowbird5411 just make sure the trees are female and not near anything you don't want destroyed by roots
@freedombee99006 жыл бұрын
Yep. I made that mistake too, except not with privot, but with a huge old grapevine that never grew grapes but had massive green growth that totally covered & was smothering every bush, small tree & plant in my large front garden. (The grapevine was here when I moved in),. So I cut the grapevine into small pieces & filled one tall raised garden bed with it , then covered it with soil & compost & planted passionfruit vines etc there. A few months later I had many new useless grapevines growing up everywhere out of the raised garden bed because many of the pieces of grapevine stalk grew roots, & it began overtaking my passionfuit vine & the top half of everythinng growing in that garden bed. Apparently only the pieces that werent buried deep under soill/compost etc grew. So also make sure you cover your prunings with lots of soil/compost etc I had to dig out all the plants & empty out the the top half of the raised garden bed. It really surprised me this would happen with grapevines, but Ive had no trouble with filling all my other raised garden beds with old branches & greenery prunings. So just be careful what U bury under the soil AND how deep you bury it.
@joansmith34928 жыл бұрын
I've done the same thing! Buried some old sticks to add biomass under mulch walkway and the dang things rooted and started growing.
@arizonahomestead4 жыл бұрын
Wow!! Very informative info about invasive species. Thanks!!
@marcelsilva76934 жыл бұрын
The man is holding up a zombie branch. Just when you think its dead and gonna begin rotting in your Hugelkultur, it starts growing lil limbs trying to rise from the ground 😳.
@larryadams4587 жыл бұрын
Hi Clint, I'm considering a Hugelkultur section of my garden for next year and so I appreciate the tip. How about fir trees. I'm taking down a tree damaged in a storm and I've always heard the needles were too acidic for soil. Thanks from Chicago!
@williamworkman64992 жыл бұрын
Don’t know about fir trees. Thinking the fir might be a cousin to the cedar and you for sure don’t want to use cedar. Also walnut is especially bad. The best is sycamore (if you can find it). The reason for sycamore is: it is a soft wood and would not recommend hickory, oak or hedge because they’re really hard and take forever to break down.
@marmeemarch70802 жыл бұрын
What did you do and how did it turn out? I'm in the Chicago suburbs. There are a few plants that like acidic soil, such as rhododendrons and azaleas. But they don't need hugelkultur beds, lol.
@Junkinsally5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the heads up!!
@susangraves27 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I'm not sure I would have considered this!
@pant0sand0hat2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@bigjohn28112 жыл бұрын
The main thing is to make sure the branches are dead and dried out. I've stacked larger branches in the fall and when spring came the the branches were growing leaves because there enough moisture retained in the pile.
@JuniorFarquar3 жыл бұрын
I, too, fight the privette wars!! They just seem to like to grow just where you don't want them. Gotta get ALL of the roots out of the ground, otherwise it turns into a nurse stump with more privettes than you started with. Good luck!
@marilynmiltenberger64757 жыл бұрын
thank you for you advice!
@claires91004 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. Good to know.
@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks142 жыл бұрын
Chinese privet and bittersweet vine are two of the most invasive species (other than kudzu) that I have dealt with, here in the South. When it comes to the privet, I chip the small stuff and put it in my humus pile, and the bigger stuff gets burned.
@numbereight8868 жыл бұрын
That's a very important point. Should really only use branches and trunks of trees, the rest should be turned into bio char or embers and then applied.
@Stiller.Permaculture8 жыл бұрын
Made that mistake in my first hugelkulture. Used tree of heaven and really regretted it.
@markwelsch16196 жыл бұрын
I've killed some hard to kill plants by cutting them at ground level and then pounding a tin can over the top of the cut stump. This deprives it of all sun. This has killed everything. Eventually the tin cans will rust out and return to soil, or, you can dig them up after a year or so - just to make sure what you wanted to kill is dead.
@keyair1238 жыл бұрын
he looks mad about it at the end lol
@mrstn1237 жыл бұрын
I can barely hear you on this one. But, I appreciate your advice.
@russbowman68016 жыл бұрын
I also have privet. Here is what I did to kill it. I cut it to the ground, let it sprout back about a 6" to a foot, then sprayed it with used cooking oil and roundup at 3:1, shaking as it is bring sprayed. I used cooking oil because I was told by the extension folks in Georgia to use desil oil, but that will not eventually decompose since it is not natural. Cooking oil is natural so it should decompose over time. Next, I will try streight white vinegar mixed with epsom salt and a teaspoon of dish detergent. This is not so harsh on things as roundup and it does kill weeds. Whether it will kill sprouting privet is another thing to find out. Blessings, Russ
@sulebo21536 жыл бұрын
Roundup is a known toxin which is being banned in Europe and we're TRYING to ban it in U.S. - big battle with Monsanto. Please don't use it for your own health and the long term health of the soil.
@Tara-sf7uu8 жыл бұрын
I live in W.Tn, and in my system ligustrum has given me the same issue, this stuff is nearly as bad as bermuda grass! I cut several lengths of ligustrum to make posts for a wattle fence....and now those posts have rooted and now have to be pulled up. I essentially made a living, invasive fence! It was definately a hard lesson learned...not all biomass is suited for the same purposes
@LB-vl3qn6 жыл бұрын
I believe ligustrum is privet. Sorry about your fence.
@PetalsonthePavingSlabs8 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, thank you. Subbed!
@tee49463 жыл бұрын
Good to know
@bigpete42277 жыл бұрын
Do you think shredding it would of solved the problem?
@lionolee54802 жыл бұрын
Well I would chop it down then let it bake in the sun until it’s dried up and 100% dead or maybe soak it in water until it’s starting to rot just an idea 💡
@ljacree57647 жыл бұрын
This happened to me with fruitless mulberry tree cuttings. What a pain to remove it!
@mikepellerin46117 жыл бұрын
Would Hugelkultur beds be good for growing strawberries in? How about onions? Thank you.
@Rarasrevenge7 жыл бұрын
Mike Pellerin strawberries will do great. as long as you have some soft top layer on the soil onions will do well too!
@shelleynobleart7 жыл бұрын
Helpful info. Thank you.
@sagapa7 жыл бұрын
Just put only dried bushes to hugelkultur sites. It is invasive or not is not important. Also if you make compost, only use dry bush or wood chips, otherwise they can consume the nutrients in compost while trying to survive, at the end they will die but your time is valuable too.
@LostInThisGardenofLife Жыл бұрын
That Chinese privet is insane.
@djedwinlounge89327 жыл бұрын
thanks for the advise
@dalebailey7542 жыл бұрын
What about pothos clippings? Are they suitable for compost or hugelkultur beds?
@kprairiesun4 жыл бұрын
Like trumpet vine!
@UndefinedBailiwick6 жыл бұрын
1. Wait till the branches completely dry out and die. OR 2. Burn in and make biochar.
@sgrdpdrsn4 жыл бұрын
I have read or seen somewhere that one should avoid PINE in the hugelculture. Is that right?
@wfwfwfwfwfwf4 жыл бұрын
Hi, I'm making a hugel bed from Willow sticks and logs, here in Holland. If you put a willow stick in the ground, it'll become a tree again, so probably facing the same problem. Does anyone know how long I should let the wood dry before I can cover it up? Sawed it a few months ago and it feels pretty dry now...
@marzymarrz51726 жыл бұрын
Good advise.....reminds me I have a wisteria that rears it’s ugly head all over my yard. Maybe hugelkultur not a good idea for me. Thanks
@permaculturerealist62296 жыл бұрын
marzy Marrz just make sure it is total dead. Don't give up on method, just be smart.
@LB-vl3qn6 жыл бұрын
Wisteria ugly? Sounds like a good "problem" to have.
@BobEMoto7 жыл бұрын
Privet, aaaarrrrggggh! But chipping the Privet may be enough to stop it from growing. Also, hickory fence posts have been known to regrow trees.
@bingoberra187 жыл бұрын
Kill it with fire! You might be able to get rid of it by cutting it down and then covering it with something like adark plastic for a few years. But burning it in a barrell and using the ashes instead could work. Also it would be interesting to know if shredding it would create chips that doesn´t grow.
@markwelsch16196 жыл бұрын
I've killed some hard to kill plants by cutting them at ground level and then pounding a tin can over the top of the cut stump. This deprives it of all sun. This has killed everything. Eventually the tin cans will rust out and return to soil, or, you can dig them up after a year or so - just to make sure what you wanted to kill is dead.
@wendymorrison56196 жыл бұрын
bingoberra18 I grew poplars from chips, wouldn't risk it
@frankieboyo19697 жыл бұрын
Think of any hardwood cuttings one is putting into a potential growing medium as a live hardwood cutting. Make sure woody waste is dead.
@MegaFreeSpeech7 жыл бұрын
You could turn it all into biochar and still get the biomass to add to your soils.
@Redandranger7 жыл бұрын
Damn ---- you beat me to it.
@davidmontrose10195 жыл бұрын
Be sure it is not green or it might grow!
@fuscia137 жыл бұрын
Are you in GA too?
@grownatural92257 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
@ebbaneezafeelgood20947 жыл бұрын
thanks i ve got goats and they are a problem lol im sure they have a key to the gate
@TheWritingGirl6 жыл бұрын
my neighbor planted in ON the property line..and now its invade 35 feet of my front yard/side yard, we cant park in my own drive way..hate the stuff
@nothlith7 жыл бұрын
Most plants will die if you cut them off at the surface. I go through my garden, granted its a small garden, and use a hoe and to cut everything off right at the surface. All the weeds evebtually die. works great.
@karena.6276 жыл бұрын
This method would not work with plants such as artemisia. It spreads via the roots. The tiniest remnant of a root left in the soil can cause a whole new plant to come up.
@MsTokies8 жыл бұрын
sounds like you need to give in and get the goats. maybe mini goats.
@neveahc.47873 жыл бұрын
Sounds like bamboo. My dad planted some when I wasn't home and it took me 4 years to get rid of the majority of it! Still a battle tho😥
@amymiller68544 жыл бұрын
good warning!
@omnitool4 жыл бұрын
What if you boil it?
@MichaelSHartman5 жыл бұрын
Easy to get the rhizome Bermuda grass into a bed.
@Tara-sf7uu4 жыл бұрын
Can you believe ppl actually BUY these things and plant them on purpose?? It just breaks my heart bc I know they have no idea what they are getting into
@D.A.Hanks143 жыл бұрын
Be careful with willow and yucca as well.
@bryanmilne Жыл бұрын
Common sense... Make biochar with invasive plant biomass, not raised beds
@Will-tm5bj6 жыл бұрын
Our goats eat it a little bit, enough to keep it at bay. It is invasive, most things labeled as such isn't hogwash, they will take over
@navrenscafidi8 жыл бұрын
privat (called yopon in Louisiana) is some nasty stuff. if you burn it and and breath the smoke or eat anthing cooked on the fire itll give you HORRIBLE diarrhea.
@langvan32368 жыл бұрын
+navrenscafidi ty for this bit was j ust thinking b urning it fot the ash might be doable Now ill have to rethink that good and long
@farmindank34792 жыл бұрын
Biochar??
@giveregard2truth5026 жыл бұрын
What about cedar? I’m clearing land and have cedar coming out of the yazoo
@permaculturerealist62296 жыл бұрын
GiveRegard2 Truth I don't think you will have them same issue with cedar, but let it dry out before you add to soil to be sure.
@gutersteinker6 жыл бұрын
Hahaha thanks for the experience, if you chip it or shred it it might not be as dangerous