Digging in the Dirt

Both our composters got filled up over winter, and with spring finally here, it's definitely time to make room for a fresh crop. So our project for today was "harvesting" our compost. We half-emptied both containers, taking the well-cooked stuff from the bottom of the containers, and aerating the rest. Then we emptied any open bags of topsoil, and old planters and baskets into the mix, along with a layer of shredded leaves. (We always save a bag of leaves in the fall so we will have dry material for the composter the next spring.)

As I've said before on this blog, I used an organic compost accelerator, which is just a powdery mix that you sprinkle over the layers of compostable material. It requires you to wet it down to get it to work, but our compost was a little dry after the winter, so we needed to add water to it anyway.



The amount of compost we removed filled several 14-inch pots, along with one large storage box.



I wish I had time for more big garden projects tomorrow -- it's the first long weekend of the gardening season, after all -- but my nephew has chosen it as his wedding day, so I'll be spending most of the morning cleaning the dirt from under my fingernails, and otherwise trying to make myself look presentable.

And speaking of presentable, compost is not exactly the type of photo people are looking for when they visit garden blogs, so here is something a bit prettier.

Unknown Late Daffodil



'Peach Melba' Heuchera



Irises Close Up


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