We create our own compost every year for our garden. We also collect horse manure by the pickup truck load from neighbors and let it age for months before use in our garden beds. Our garden soil looks great and we usually grow nice healthy plants, but we thought we could do better. I ran […]
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We had been brewing compost tea in 5 gallon buckets and it was a bit of a chore. We set up a 55 gallon plastic drum at the top of the garden for brewing bigger batches of compost tea. We found a youtube video that showed us basically all we needed to know, here. We
We’ve had compost bins since April, 2014, but we’ve done several improvements since then. Here is what the original 3 bins looked like. The original compost bins worked great, but the sawdust and wheat straw cover material wasn’t protected from rain. The finished compost bins. A few of the improvements made are: * A roof
Sarah wanted to document the state of our 2015 garden by recording a video at the beginning of July. She does talk briefly about the chicken coops and the compost bins as well. This is only our second year of gardening, so I suspect we will look back at this video and have a few
We picked up another load of horse manure to mix in with our own less-than-ideal “soil” to fill the new garden beds. We will top the beds off with some organic garden soil and a layer of mulch, and then let them sit for a couple of months until we’re ready to plant.
The new compost bin is finally in use. It has three 6′ x 6′ bins. The sawdust in the far bin is cover material for a composting toilet. You can learn more about making your own composting toilets at http://humanurehandbook.com/
Cedar posts cut and post holes dug for compost bins. Sarah and I have talked at length about all the things we want to do at our new place. I will be moving there ahead of Sarah and Ben (+ two cats) in preparation for us all to live there permanently this summer. We have