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What will you do with all that black gold?
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 beds are now level.
The raised beds might not look even in the following photo, but they are. They just are not level with each other, if that makes sense. And the angle of this photo distorts some of the perspective,too...
The fourth raised bed is not in this photo. It went at the end of another row in the garden.
Today, I have been out filling up all the raised beds with hügelkultur logs for the base, then I will add a layer of organic materials to fill in the gaps, then the top 6-8 inches will be filled with a topsoil and chicken run compost mixed 1:1.
I have four of those 4X4 foot raised beds plus the two 2X4 foot raised beds along the chicken run fence to fill with new stuff. Plus, I have something like another 8 raised beds from previous years that will need some top offs of compost.
I think I mentioned that I plan on setting up my cement mixer compost sifter in a week or two. That will give me plenty of time to fill up the new beds and top off the old ones. I will be using lots of my black gold compost this year!