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:old One of the great things about chicken run compost is that if I have other items ahead on the to-do list, or maybe I just don't have the energy that day, I can legitimately say to myself another day or two of composting in the chicken run will only make the run compost better!

Thanks for the feedback. I invested in a lot of composting equipment a few years back because I had decided to kick up my gardening efforts. As much as I have spent on my equipment, it has still saved me hundreds of dollars processing my own compost at home compared to buying it in big bags at...

:lau I successfully worked myself into a bad position as well. My run fence is 6 feet tall and I have bird netting stretched across it. Over the past few years, my chicken run litter has been filling up anywhere from 12-18 inches deep. So, now I have to bend over when I work in the run. I need...

Thanks goes to my composting chickens. They do almost all the work. But I have become an advocate for chicken run composting. If you do any gardening, chickens can be your little workers making, and enriching, your compost. I used to rototill my in-ground garden every year. I have a very nice...

⚠️ Update on Filling Raised Beds with Chicken Run Compost All my pallet wood raised beds are using the hügelkultur method of filling logs in the bottom half of the raised bed, then an organic layer of stuff, topped off with a topsoil and chicken run compost mixed 1:1 for the final 6-8 inches...

Here is an idea that I came up with to protect my two new hügelkultur raised beds that I plan on using for beans and peas.... I got out some pea seeds just for planting in my 2X4 "pole bean" raised beds. However, I discovered that the new beds I just had filled had been dug up pretty bad...

If you are like me, your hügelkultur raised bed might only have about 6-8 inches of topsoil in the bed because you fill up the bottom half of the bed with logs and other organic matter. That works great for me in most instances. However, if you need more topsoil depth for a certain root plant...

⚠️ 2X4 Foot Pallet Wood "Pole Bean" Raised Beds update A week or so ago I made some half-normal-sized 2X4 foot pallet wood raised beds and put them alongside the back of my chicken run fence... The idea is to plant pole beans on the side with the fencing, and then fill in the rest of the...

Just a little update on some of my new hügelkultur raised beds... This winter, in my garage, I built another four 4X4 foot pallet wood raised beds. I have just put them into place and leveled each bed off. My garden area there is on a slope, so the ground is not level, but the individual raised...

Yes, I have lots of free wood like fallen trees, etc... So, that is what I would use as well. But you might be able to get your wood chips for free as well. It took me awhile, but I found that I could get all the free wood chips I could ever want or use at our local county landfill. They are...

⚠️ Hügelkultur Beds Using Composted Wood Chips Just found a new YouTube video on filling a hügelkultur raised bed but using composted wood chips instead of logs. He starts off with the premise that many people might not have access to logs or tree trunks to use as the base of the hügelkultur...

:hit Yep, I killed my worm bin by overfeeding. Things went anerobic and the worms died. That's why I posted that video. I think even I could have a viable worm farm as part of a deep hügelkultur raised bed. Without even trying, my chicken run composting system is full of worms. I know I could...

I thought that video on deep hügelkultur raised beds with worm towers was a good idea. My tallest beds right now are only 16 inches high. But I could easily make a raised bed much deeper and add those worm towers. Might be a future project for me. This winter I already built another four pallet...

⚠️ Deep Hügelkultur Raised Bed with Worm Towers Here is a nice instructional YouTube video on making a deep hügelkultur raised bed and adding worm towers in the design. If that is of interest to you, check out this 24-minute-long video... :tongue Years ago, I attempted to have a worm bin...

I just finished building my fourth pallet wood raised bed v2.0 in the garage this winter! Here is a picture of one of them standing upright to take up less space in the garage (all the pallet wood raised beds look pretty much the same).... Those pallet wood raised beds are basically 4X4 foot...

⚠️ New video by James Prigioni on Hügelkultur Raised Garden Beds Nice video for someone who is wondering what a huglekultur raised garden bed is, how to make one, what benefits you get from the logs and wood, how it saves you lots of money acting as fill, and how over time the wood will break...

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that climate is a major factor in how well a plastic liner would work.

I have been busy building pallet wood planters and raised beds this past week. I am trying to get a jump start on this spring and getting those built now. On the thread Show Me Your Pallet Projects we got into a short discussion about using liners for raised beds/planters and if that was a good...

⚠️ Raised Bed Kit on Sale at Menards Just came across this raised bed kit at Menards in a special email. It is 4X4 feet and 10 inches high. I know some people are interested in these kits, so I though I would post it here. These special sales don't last long and the inventory gets sold out...

:old I don't think I ever took a nail to a living tree. It's just something we never did. But I can see where people would use a tree as a living fence post or to hang up a birdhouse. Those are Chinese made metal scanners available lots of places with only different brand stickers put on them...