I practice a lazy form of this: I live on the edge of a small forest, what remains of what used to be here as this town was built and grew up around it, only ab

I practice a lazy form of this: I live on the edge of a small forest, what remains of what used to be here as this town was built and grew up around it, only about 100 feet deep at widest. I came back with a lot of wood of fallen trees, branches, and filled about a foot, to save costs on soil (a mix of coconut coir and Canadian peat; similar to a potting mix in a lot of ways). I only need to water when its supremely dry, which happens up here during the peak (and hottest) of the summer. I live in Maine, summer is also fire season, and people coming up here (because we're the "vacation state") love to start their little dumbass campfires because they want to play their stupid little "roughing it" fantasies; when its like that, I water. Now, the peppers and tomatoes I grow? They eat all the water I can give them, and their pots aren't rigged with hugelkulture-like techniques. Maybe I should have.