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It was a beautiful day today - and not raining - so I emptied my compost bin from the back yard into the garden beds in the side yard and did a little cleanup. These are my keyhole gardens where I put my compostable scraps into the "baskets" in the middle. I just have to build up the soil around them and then they are ready for planting spring crops. Despite the beds not being very built up yet, and the baskets only about a year old, I can see that they are composting down and that there are more worms in the beds. My sad little cabbage didn't do well though. Not enough nutrients, probably. I'll be better about it next time.
I just have a bottomless 5 gallon bucket for a compost bin in the garlic bed. I'll build a composting basket after the garlic is harvested. The bucket works pretty good. I keep it covered to keep the possums and rodents out. I suppose they can get into the baskets, but so far no problems. I think the feral cats keep the vermin at bay.
This is what happens when you run out of Sluggo. The snails and slugs go crazy on your plants. So grateful for the rain, but the little slimesters went nuts! Some of the plants were on the small side, but I got quite a bit of harvest from them!
This is the Rosemary plant that almost died after I transplanted it. It loves living next to that compost basket!
It was a beautiful day today - and not raining - so I emptied my compost bin from the back yard into the garden beds in the side yard and did a little cleanup. These are my keyhole gardens where I put my compostable scraps into the "baskets" in the middle. I just have to build up the soil around them and then they are ready for planting spring crops. Despite the beds not being very built up yet, and the baskets only about a year old, I can see that they are composting down and that there are more worms in the beds. My sad little cabbage didn't do well though. Not enough nutrients, probably. I'll be better about it next time.
I just have a bottomless 5 gallon bucket for a compost bin in the garlic bed. I'll build a composting basket after the garlic is harvested. The bucket works pretty good. I keep it covered to keep the possums and rodents out. I suppose they can get into the baskets, but so far no problems. I think the feral cats keep the vermin at bay.
This is what happens when you run out of Sluggo. The snails and slugs go crazy on your plants. So grateful for the rain, but the little slimesters went nuts! Some of the plants were on the small side, but I got quite a bit of harvest from them!
This is the Rosemary plant that almost died after I transplanted it. It loves living next to that compost basket!
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