What the heck's a Hugel Kulture garden?

Well, you start with a big ditch, then fill it with wood of various sizes: logs and branches and twigs that will decompose at various rates over years, fertilizing the garden from the bottom up!

It took hours of work to cut down or salvage already rotting logs but the weather was absolutely perfect.  The quantity of mosquitoes was frightening, however, and we were forced to increase the pacing of our work.  Which of course, permitted more time for post-gardening beverages.