Ending and Beginning

Added 5 gallons of compost to 50 square foot bed outside back door and turned it over with a shovel. Also turned over another row of sod on west side of that bed:

Added 5 gallons of compost to the raised 4′ x 8′ bed in the garden (below), then filled it up the rest of the way with dirt from other places in the garden.

I got the compost from the black plastic compost bin. It’s one of those bins where you add the vegetable matter to the top and take it out from a door on the side near the bottom (and it’s a pain to get out). The compost is not completely finished, but I think it will finish in the soil in the weeks we have before planting. I plan on using the rest of it in the vicinity of plantings as we get the garden in.

We could be, and should be, making much more compost than we’re making. Adding large quantities of widely varied organic materials to your soil is the best way to improve it. Why aren’t we? I think mostly not having a lot of energy left after our jobs and parental duties, but also some laziness and lack of determination to make it happen. We certainly could make it happen if we both decided it was essential.

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