Swales and hugelkulture on a small scale
I have been busy every spare minute getting the veggie garden organised. A couple of weekends ago we were looking at the swale/hugulkuture area, and thinking that the front part with the raised beds looked so nice and neat and didn't want to have the back area looking untidy. Here you can see the small hand dug swale area and raised area mostly consisting of roots and branches behind the two raised beds. I have only ever read about swales in large areas, and the same with hugulkulture, so would it be possible to combine the two into a raised bed system, and have another raised bed behind the two - essentially having the hugelkuture contained in a raised bed? Our nearest Bunnings had run out of the same type of raised beds, so we ordered one in, and last Sunday went down to pick it up. I had hubby assemble it, while I dug out around the mound I had created - the hugelkuture mound - I love saying that word :) I popped it right over the top, added ...