My first YouTube video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r7GGdBD54j0

I have shared a few photos but here is a short garden tour of my creation Thanks Permies!

Looks great. Did you create the mound then lay the pallets on it before fixing them in place?

Nice work, on the video and the hugel.

Thanks Tim, looks great. Do you water it ?

Great video. I liked how you poked the camera in all the nooks and crannies that the vertical design seems to make a lot of.. Lots of micro climates for sure.

Thanks Permies!
To answer questions I posted a pic. There is probably too much wood in the mounds but i hit really hard clay about 2 feet deep so I had to use lots of wood to make the soil cover the whole mound without hauling in more from elsewhere.
I DO NOT WATER THIS GARDEN. It has however been a very wet spring so the true test will come in the summer. My 2nd design will have more water retention capabilities but if I HAD to water this one in the heat of the summer I thought a single soaker hose running along the top might be enough to graveity feed the whole mound. The hope is that they survive the summer heat without water and that I focus more on perennial growth so that I do not worry about replanting, less weeding etc.
As you can see from the picture I have been digging a hole as deep as I can by hand easily and then stack all the wood and branches as best I can without too many large gaps and then I will attach addional boards and plant as I backfill. This attempt will have a shelf under each board to hole soil back and make more of a crevice for multch and to prevent the mound from settleing too much (some of my plants were sinking into the mound like quicksand during the first couple heavy rains) I think the new design will prevent this. Also no fertiliser besides organic matter was put into the soil. The soil is very high in clay and I am located in Ontario Canada.