Hugelkultur.

Hugel is a German word meaning mound, kultur – I’m sure you can guess. Put the two together and you have a Germanic cultivation system that goes back a few hundred years and replicates the natural processes that occur in forests, so I assume that says something about the German countryside.
 
The foundations of the Lost Garden hugel beds are Christmas tree trunks, though any variety of tree will do. As they rot, they become porous and so retain large quantities of water while the biodegradable material piled on around the wood creates fertility and heat, while earth provides the top soil. They are generally about a metre wide, by one high, and as long as your tree trunks, these are ten to fifteen metres. The advantages, apart from the obvious, are that they are raised beds and “no-dig.”
 
The weeds seem to enjoy the environment, but the flowers of the Blip are potatoes – a crop that I would have thought would be more suited to breaking virgin ground as they are in other parts of the garden.