Hauling Free Compost For My Organic Homestead Garden

Today was garden work at the homestead. Melanie was planting lettuce, kale and spinach while I tilled and worked the garden plot.

I am meeting a lot of people in the neighborhood and making friends already. I met a neighbor who has a huge pile of composted leaves and tree materials. This has been sitting for 4 years now. Some is from last year though and is only partly composted.

I figure that I will get about 6 or more truck loads out of this. He wants it gone and I was going to start looking for compost to put into our garden for fertilizer. This works out good for both of us.

The timing is absolutely perfect for us.

I tilled the garden a third time in the morning. The tiller is getting deeper into the earth now and the ground is very soft.

I did not see any worms at all though so I figure the ground has a high acid content. I will have to check its PH level and amend it as needed.

Melanie is planting flowers, herbs and lettuce around the front of our new home. She also planted some flower seeds in a starter tray a few days ago and they are starting to sprout.

A visitor showed up today from YT. He is a long time viewer and stopped in to say hi. He helped me get a load of leaves on the truck and we visited for quite a while. Thanks for stopping over.

I managed to get one truck load of leaves shoveled off and into our compost bins. I had to prepare a path on the back side of the garden to get the leaves out.

The one load of leaves half filled our two compost bins which take about 128 cubic feet of material. I figure one more truck load will fill them for now. They will settle soon though because it is supposed to rain.

I went to get some wire for my solar panels and ended up getting another truck load of leaves. Dinner was ready when I got back though so I did not get them off yet.

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