Last Spring I decided to build a vegetable garden using this method. We have lots of stone and ledge here and rototilling is anything but fun. We also happen to have two horses and years worth of shavings from old bedding. It took a long time to haul many trailer loads of bedding, put down wet newspaper, leaves and logs and build it up to about 3 feet high (it settles) by 30 by 4 rows. I was rather doubtful about all of this but did it anyways. Furthermore, it was my first year with wintersowing and I had sown a few cool weather heirloom tomatoes which remained rather small in their containers. Plus, I didn't get them into the ground until the second and third week of June. I added some Tomato-Tone (organic) to each hole as I planted them and watered them in good. Kept watering as needed and then they took off. I got ripe tomatoes later in the summer but got so many wonderful tasting tomatoes. From what started as a rather doubtful beginning (experiment) ended up a huge success. So, last fall, I added more leaves and composted manure/bedding so that I could plant earlier this year.
By all means, try this. It certainly does make sense when you think about it. What is soil but sand with various minerals, crushed rocks and thousands of years of rotted vegetation.
