ok, jeeze.  bedtime. that bike's not gonna pedal itself, right?

oof.

Didn't he do something with bales of hay?  Plant in them, or something like that?

Fine.  

Here we go.

Hugelkultur:

Put simply, hugelkultur is a centuries-old, traditional way of building a garden bed from rotten logs and plant debris. These mound shapes are created by marking out an area for a raised bed, clearing the land, and then heaping up woody material (that's ideally already partially rotted) topped with compost and soil.

This space in the yard is mostly under a long horizontal section of an ancient apple tree.  I can't mow under it without crawling behind the mower, the deer eat the head-high apples and leaves. These guys.  They look right at home, don't they?

I might as well put something pretty in that space instead of the grass that looks like it lost a fight with a prison barber. Wait a minute... look at all that partially rotted woody material right there... Oh!  Hugelkultur.