12boy
Guru
- Location
- Casper WY USA
Havent posted for a while...been involved with cleaning out the mountains of crap my wife, who was a hoarder, left behind. Youngest son and his wife stayed for a while after Sheri died and we made some real progress but there is lots more to be done. I think I have a vision now of how to do this and it won't be as difficult as I had thought.
Between my fence and the alley I have a couple of wire mesh corrals into which I and the neighbors put all manner of garden type bumph such as leaves, pulled plants, little branches etc. It is far too dry here for this to self compost and I decided this spring to shine on the garden this yeardue to Sheri's health. However, this same son wants to compost the 6x4x3 piles of bumph and has decided it needs "green" compost as well as the dried stuff. At the same time he notIced a bunch of chard had self seeded and we moved the chard to one corner of the garden and planted cowpeas in the rest. The idea is to cut them down and layer them into compost piles which will be watered and covered with black plastic until they decompose into mulch. After throwing the cowpeas on freshly tilled soil, we covered them with burlap as our robins love to dig up and eat them. Here are a couple of pics showing the chard and cowpea sprouts. I really don't much care, as the balefill accepts truckloads of branches etc and composts some and chips the rest, with the provision that you can trade your stuff for a hefty dicount on soil or woodchips as I have done for years. Still, he has worked hard on the house and really wanted to do this, so we will see if it works. Lettuce and spinach don't do well here as the summer heat makes them bolt and go bitter so the chard will be welcome.
Be well and safe....
Between my fence and the alley I have a couple of wire mesh corrals into which I and the neighbors put all manner of garden type bumph such as leaves, pulled plants, little branches etc. It is far too dry here for this to self compost and I decided this spring to shine on the garden this yeardue to Sheri's health. However, this same son wants to compost the 6x4x3 piles of bumph and has decided it needs "green" compost as well as the dried stuff. At the same time he notIced a bunch of chard had self seeded and we moved the chard to one corner of the garden and planted cowpeas in the rest. The idea is to cut them down and layer them into compost piles which will be watered and covered with black plastic until they decompose into mulch. After throwing the cowpeas on freshly tilled soil, we covered them with burlap as our robins love to dig up and eat them. Here are a couple of pics showing the chard and cowpea sprouts. I really don't much care, as the balefill accepts truckloads of branches etc and composts some and chips the rest, with the provision that you can trade your stuff for a hefty dicount on soil or woodchips as I have done for years. Still, he has worked hard on the house and really wanted to do this, so we will see if it works. Lettuce and spinach don't do well here as the summer heat makes them bolt and go bitter so the chard will be welcome.
Be well and safe....
