every day's a learning day! Never heard of this before but imagine it can make harvesting certain crops a lot easier and gives you more surface area to play with. Will be fascinated to hear about the progress.
Yes, the harvesting thing may prove useful. Both beds are now finished, for the second one I used some old wood from my wood pile that has rotted to the stage it’s about the consistency of balsa wood and then added lots of mowing from the rough areas around the allotments for extra nitrogen. I am currently digging out a big compost/leaf mould pile, so may add some of that to the top for the worms to get stuck into.
I’m currently thinking of moving a couple of gooseberries that have not done much in this area and then inter plant with squash and courgettes next year which can scramble around the mounds. They seem to like light open soil.
It will be interesting to see how the Horsetail reacts to being disturbed. Found it had started invading my plot at another site yesterday and spent half an hour tracing some very thick roots with very little top growth. Still plenty more work there