I am a lazy gardener. That, plus the recent onset of rheumatoid disease, has led me to adopt a largely no-dig approach in my vegetable garden; I say largely because I do engage in the occasional frenzied forking-over sessions to try and discourage the mole and more particularly the field voles. You can read my latest vole rant Here.
Whilst reading up on trying to run a no dig system in tandem with lots of happily digging mammals, I came across a reference to Hugelkultur and more importantly, Hugelkultur raised beds, a highly moisture retentive construction of decaying timber topped with soil.
