Lining bottom of garden row with organic material?

You are referring to hugelculture. And I know that spelling isnt right.

It takes several years for it to really get going.

Meanwhile, focus on your rows. Chicken manure would be excellent, cover it with leaves, hay, practically anything in the organic realm. Even some of the existing garden soil. You need the microbes to break down and use the manure. Hopefully by planting time it will have cooked off enough to be usable. Adding in cow on top of that, might just be too much. Maybe put the cow in other rows. You could do side by side comparisons?

On a side note, my neighbor who is about 101 years old, does the following:

In the fall cleans out the hightunnel. Makes 3 trenches. Fills the trenches will leaves, piles the soil back in. Plants his tomatoes on Valentines Day. Why V-day? I have no idea. Thats his way of remembering it.

I have been in his hightunnel in the spring, and its jam packed with plants. He has done it this way for at least 30 years. Every year. Good harvests, and never seems to have disease issue.

Makes me rethink how I do everything.

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Lining bottom of garden row with organic material?