kerryh's Blog

HELLO EVERYONE
Apr 15, 2008 | 12:16 PM PST
Tag: compost heap

It has been too nice outside to be at my pc. It was 70 in my back yard yesterday ,today there are snow flakes flying around.

I was not going to add any beds or plants around Jim's Garage. I was going to downsize...  ya right. I could not stand all that bare ground and open spaces LOL. My neighbor had a pile of rocks, laying  by his back gate, So I made two beds, their each about 3ft  around. The soil is awful, I dig down about 12 inches and I come to this coal looking really nasty stuff. So I dug down about 2ft. I dumped  that nasty stuff in the alley. I put a weeks worth of kitchen scaps in the hole added my compost and then added a sack of cow poo. When the end of May comes around, those two beds will be ready to plant. The worms will have mixed my scrapes and compost ,and all I will have to do is take the pichfork and fold it together. I have had to do that with most of my yard.

Soon after we moved here, 30 years ago. I decided to plant a vegetable garden between my neighbors and my  house. This was before I found out about the wonders of compost. The beans and peas did okay, but my radish just keep getting taller, and nothing underneth. I asked my neighbor, "what the samhill is wrong with this radishes, I never seen 3 ft radishes before"? he laughed  and said , In th early 1900's his house used to have a still  on the 3rd floor and they thur out all the spent corn and such out the window. The soil  was just nasty,we started useing the area to park our camper and boat.

About 5 years ago I started a big compost area there, I kepted moving it around and now the soil looks good, I am still going to make a raised bed, I want to plant a few veggies, It will be fun to see how they turn out. 

Happy Planting Kerryh