The highly popular gardening author, radio personality, and blogger at AWayToGarden.com interviewed Dave recently about hugelkultur, the raised bed technique that involves using whole logs of wood in your beds.
I live in deep east Texas & there's plenty of wood available to use, either from trees that have fallen or washed ashore from the lake. I have 2 hugelkulturs already in place & have sunflowers planted on one & trying to figure out what to plant on the other since it's in a shady area. I'm sure to find some good ideas here!
If you're in East Texas than we're neighbors! I have yet to find anything that doesn't do well in hugelkultur. The shade is the limiting factor there, I would think.
Here our wood is plentiful because we lost so many trees in the drought a couple years ago!