Hugelkultur problems
The
one problem I've run into with my hugelkultur mounds is rodents. Moles
and/or voles tend to move in, and then Lucy routes them right
out...along with two thirds of the mound. I patted the earth and
leaves back around my rosemary
plant and will hope
it survives Lucy's tough love.
Rather than yelling at
Lucy (who had forgotten all about the rosemary incident), I took a deep
breath and remembered that she's a perfect dog 95% of the time, which
is at least 15% more of the time than I'm good. If Huckleberry
hadn't caught his annual mouse this week, I'd say something snarky
about our most spoiled cat here, but the truth is that he's higher in
my good graces than Lucy today.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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According to the German wikipedia page about it, you should put a fine metal wire mesh (e.g. ½ inch chicken wire) under your mounds to prevent rodents from moving in.