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- Create a hillside in the Permakulturgarten
- Why create a hillside?
- Plan the hill bed: location and size
- When will the hill bed be created?
- The construction of a hillside
A hillside can be farmed for up to five years
Create a hillside in the Permakulturgarten
The hillock is a central element in permaculture, because it allows the cultivation of very high yielding vegetables or fruit without the addition of fertilizer and recovery of natural garden waste. Creating a hillside is pretty easy if you follow the following steps.
Why create a hillside?
A hillside consists of various layers of organic material that accumulates in the garden. The exploitation of everything the garden produces is one of the basic principles of permaculture and helps to ensure sustainable cultivation. Thanks to the organic material, which gradually rots, the hilly area contains numerous nutrients that provide the fruits and vegetables grown on them with nutrients throughout the year, making a fertilizer supply completely superfluous. In addition, the decomposition of the materials creates heat which has a beneficial effect on the growth of the crops grown and also allows for early growing. Vegetables and fruits can be harvested up to three weeks earlier. Another advantage is that, due to the hill shape, the acreage is slightly increased, allowing you to grow more fruit and vegetables in a smaller space.
Plan the hill bed: location and size
Hill beds are usually elongated and should not be wider than 1.50 meters, so that the awake vegetables can be reached easily. The ideal length is four meters, but you can also make your hill setting longer or shorter. It is important that you observe the given conditions on site. Fruits and vegetables almost always grow better in the sun. So do not put your hillside on the north side of your house, but look for a sunny location. In addition, it should show as possible from south to north, so that all plants get even sun.
When will the hill bed be created?
The best time to start a hilltop in the Permaculture Garden is in the fall. Over the winter, the layers can then sit down and in the spring you can start directly with the cultivation.
The construction of a hillside
A hillside is divided into several separate layers. What exactly you process in your hillside, in what order you do it and how thick each layer is, depends entirely on what's available to you. Usually used:
A hill-bed is said to remain in use for five years, so stronger branches can be used, which only rot after a year or two.
In this video you will see how to create your hill step by step:
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