06-18-2013, 12:33 AM
The implementation of this idea of plantings has surpassed my wildest expectations. The mounds are 5 or 6 feet tall, and I guess this has deterred the animals. I dont have weeds growing yet, and I know I'll have to deal with this in the future, but everything that I planted has taken off really well. I also put some blueberry bushes, strawberries, and thornless blackberries in the sides of the mounds. I planted some veggies on the top of one of the mounds as well. Yesterday, I got my first "harvest" of spinach (enough to make a salad). I suppose this is just a "hypervariant" of the traditional hawaiian way to growing taro in mounds. Just in shock over how well this has worked out, and the best part is that I did zero ground prep (aside from watching the dumptruck dump the dirt), and it was so incredibly easy to plant everything in the freshly delivered dirt.