Our garden is
doing pretty well considering our weather hasn't been the most cooperative. We've had a lot of moisture and cool
temperatures with just a few days of warm summer weather. I'm not complaining one bit as we were
looking at drought conditions this year prior to all the moisture we've been
getting this past two months.
I have new garden plans in mind for next year
Everything we
planted is growing, just slowly and that will have to be okay. My tomatoes, beans and peas seem to be doing
the best. Radishes too. The peppers, cucumbers, squashes and pumpkins
are all small and not much action there.
I'll happily take what I can get.
New stuff I'm composting now
My compost on
the other hand has been amazing. In six
weeks I was able to fill up one side of our bin with various items - flattened
cardboard from Amazon, cereal boxes, shredded paper, mulched leaves, bunny
manure mixed with wood pellets, coffee grounds, eggs shells, banana peels and
other kitchen scraps. I turned it every
few days, added water a couple times when it got dry, Mother Nature watered it
quite a bit, and then let it do its thing.
As I've been working on the garden as well as all of my flowerbeds I've
been able to haul out buckets of compost and amend the soil.
That is some gorgeous compost!
I've got loads
of earthworms in dirt that was hard, dry and compact. My new plants are flourishing. Instead of throwing all of that stuff into
the landfill I'm able to make beautiful compost and give it back to the earth
reaping the benefits of that labor. I
love this so much!
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