Hey Everyone
I appologise for the absence, but work was hectic and planning the garden pretty much took up a lot of time. And not to mention that its Winter now, so everything is a bit slower than usual. But luckily we had a few sunny days this week and I started tackling the garden.
When I say garden, I mean getting the yard to a certain par again, because the previous owners didn't have time to spend in the garden so everything was in a low low low maintance state. So after getting the front and back yard "pretty" again for the misses, I set my sights on my "playground".
I cleaned out the compost bin completely, and I was pleasantly surprised ( and horrified).
* Horrified - As I stuck my fork into the pile, I was welcomed with a fork full of TRASH. Plastic Bags, Cooldrink Cans, Sta-Soft packiging, etc. Someone thought it was a rubbish bin
* Surprised - Luckily it was only like 5 spadefull of soil ( and garbage ) I threw away and as I dug deeper I found beautiful dark and alive compost. I quickly started getting it all together and kept it aside for later
After the bin was cleaned out I layed a layer of branches and fine twigs ( about 10cm ) and covered that with freshly cut green leafs. ( from cleaning the yard ). To that I added 1/2 a bucket of kitchen scraps that has been doing their thing for a month ( Activator ??? ), then a layer of brown and then again a layer of green ( freshly cut grass). I chucked about 1.5L of Seabird Guano on that as well for another starter. I covered it all up with cardboard boxes and a roof to keep out the rain. I will be adding more green and brown material as time goes on and more leafs fall from the trees.
On that dead soil, I saw that some plants/ weeds do grow there I will take a pic of the plants growing there soon. I'm just waiting for it to grow a bit more, but I really don't think its a weed. But apart from that, I started cleaning the yard slowly and chucked all the plant material onto that part of the garden, because it was unused at that time. when I started on that area I dug half a spades depth and found many earthworms. So then I stared a mulch layer from the compost bin to where the raised beds will. I chopped up the plant material so that quicker decomp can happen and to that that I added the compost from the bin.
The rain will clear away tomorrow and then I will continue with the garden. luck was also on my side when I found out that at my gf's place of work they have about 15 wooden pallets, 3 x wine crates and 20 x bales of hay that they wanted to throw away and burn. So tomorrow I'm off to go pick up those freebies.
FEELLING BLESSED
so yeah, thats my ranting and raving coming to an end LoL. But I will post a pic soon of the area and maybe get a few tips on the shape and size/s of the bed/s.
Love an Light
Hein
