by David The Good
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Check this out – I’m growing a cabbage in a stump:
I shot that picture the day before Rachel made coleslaw from this lovely head of cabbage. It was growing in a few handfuls of dirt stuffed into the middle of a rotten chunk of oak trunk I picked up by the side of the road. I barely had to water it – and the cabbage (which is a small variety) clocked in at a respectable 3lbs.
It’s like a tiny hugelkultur pot, eh?
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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7 responses to “Hugelstump?”
Thank goodness for Google. Your posts are like a chain of events and you're always the initial explosion.
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Isn't it funny how sometimes, the best one of the crop is the one least fussed over. 3 pounds is heavy for a small cabbage. I wonder if we have some rotten tree trunk around I could haul into my garden.
Yeah – I agree. Some stuff just is happy all on its own.
I'm convinced it was the rotting wood that made this thing grow. It was the best cabbage we got this year. Better than any that grew in our nicely prepared and amended beds.
Hugel's gonna be huge! Grab all the rotting wood now, before the world discovers how valuable it is.
you know 'hugel' means 'high' in German, right?
Chrissy… don't start making drug references. This is a family blog.