Yesterday we picked up a nice big trailer load of compost from a place in town. We're yet to master the art of making our own compost. Hopefully we'll get there one day....
In the meantime, we're able to get this stuff which grows fabulous produce (I bought some just before last summer) and doesn't work out too badly priced.
It's $80 for a cube (however much that is). We bought 1.5 cubes (or 3 front loader bucket loads) for $120.
One garden bed we're building up to a higher height. That has only had regular soil in it so far (topped with pea straw mulch) and is struggling to grow much at all. We'll add this compost to the top section and hopefully end up with a much more productive garden bed.
The rest will be used to top up the garden bed we built using this compost last year as well as perhaps setting up a dedicated strawberry patch (if we have enough left over).
Then I'll be able to get busy planting. I'm chomping at the bit to get going on the planting as summer crops probably should already be in by now. That's what happens when you take off for a few weeks.
The chooks got a lovely feed last night of the silverbeet and broccoli plants I pulled out of the garden. Happy ladies indeed and they'll turn that into lovely eggs for me. :)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Compost
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2 comments:
oh I am envious.
We have not perfected composting, mainly because we need a metre (lol what a cube is known as in this neck) of soil to help the recipe along.
I'm a great fan of compost, cow manure too, your vegies are going to be fantastic. It's already warm enough now to plant almost anything, but if you have seedlings plant them in the cooler part of the afternoon so that they have the cool night to settle in before facing the heat the next day. Water them in with a dose of seasol, it helps to reduce transplant stress. I would LOVE to have a dedicated strawberry bed.
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