Hugelkulture Bed 2 Started May 2, 2020
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Hugelkultur Status – April 23, 2020
The seeds I ordered from Willhite finally came in. We planted mainstream cantaloupe, yellow petite watermelon, jackson wonder speckled bush lima bean, Texas cream 8 cowpea, summer melody squash, honeybaby winter squash, and large sunflower mix on the north side of the bed.
We spread straw over the south side of the hill. The cowpeas, okra, melons, and squash I planted on April 8 are popping out of the soil now.
Hugelkultur Bed
Hugelkultur – Okra, Comfrey, Cowpeas, Melon, Squash – April 8, 2020
I started planting in the hugelkultur bed today, and it was a little strange. Add a little water and you create an avalanche. So I tried a few things that seemed to work ok.
I took out a handful of soil, replaced it with compost, and planted okra in the compost.
2 Apple Trees and 2 Pawpaw Trees – February 15, 2020
See the GalliStead interactive map for locations. The big apple tree is a 4-in-1 from Bob Wells and has Dorsett Golden, Gorden, Fuji, and Anna varieties. The other apple tree is a Stark Double Delicious and has Stark® Golden Delicious and Starkrimson® Red Delicious. The tree is so small it is hard to tell where it is grafted though. The two Pawpaw trees also came from Stark Bros and are Potomac and Susquehanna.
4 in 1 apple tree 
Susquehanna Pawpaw tree 
Potomac Pawpaw 
Stark Double Delicious Apple Tree 
I think this is the graft on the Stark apple tree. The branches are so tiny!
compost bin made from scrap materials
set 2 t-posts, slipped a pallet over the posts attached plywood or scrap lumber to the pallet
Hügelkulture Bed October 27, 2019
We moved a lot of wood logs and branches around this weekend and have the Hugelkulture bed getting closer to being finished. An estimated 120 linear feet of bed space is being created. I already have enough of it covered with soil to allow me to plant in the spring!
Hügelkulture Bed Created July 4, 2019
Me, Aiden, and Bryson started moving all the tree trimmings in place to create a hugelkulture bed today. The wood is stacked 2 to 3 foot high, then I’ll add another 2-3 foot of soil on top of that.
Peppers, More Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Melons, and More Planted 4/5/2019
I picked up some pepper plants and another tomato plant from McKinney Feed and Seed yesterday, and planted them today, along with some lime beans and bush beans. Sometime last week, I planted cucumbers, cantaloupe, and watermelon. I took pictures of my new trees also.
Mango Pawpaw 
Sunflower Pawpaw 
Wonderful Pomegranate 
Pennsylvania Golden PawPaw 
Sweet Treat Pluerry 
Cherry w/ 4 grafts 
Santa Rosa Plum 
Fuyu Japanese Persimmon 
AU Roadside Plum 
Texas Redbud 
Tisdale Apricot 
Asian Pear w/ 4 grafts 
Morris Plum 
Thornless Honeylocust 
Moorpark Apricot 
Black Locust 
Blackberries 
Burbank July Elberta Peach 
Methley Plum 
Blackberries 
Kentucky Coffeetree (it looks dead!) 
Belle of Georgia Peach 
3 Blackberries 
2 Blackberries 
Raised Bed 1 
Raised Bed 2 
Redbud 
Raised Bed 3 
Raised Bed 4 
Raised Bed 5 
Raised Bed 6 
Irish Potatoes 
Supersweet 100 Tomato 
Sweet Spot Pepper 
All 6 Raised Beds 
Pepper, Tomato, Snap Peas, Brussles 
Lima Bean 
Big Bertha Sweet Bell Pepper 
Lima Beans Planted Here 
Tam Mild Jalapeno Pepper 
Bush Beans Planted Here 
Bean Garden Bush Beans
Plum Trees, Blackberries, Strawberries Planted 1/31/2019
The order I placed in October from Pense Berry Farm arrived yesterday, so I planted it all today. The blackberries are a special
18) Santa Rosa Plum
22) AU Roadside Plum
near 1,2,3) Prime-Ark Freedom Blackberries (quantity 6)