All Things Gardening 2018

[Irving]

I can go pick up one of those rotating composters, but I can tell already that I have about 3x the compost of the capacity of the tumbler.

[DFBrews]

Cool! Do you have a big back yard? What kind of havoc?

On a standard 6000 sq fr lot but there is not grass and the soil is in poor condition going to turn plow and till in some compost


I might do a plot of barley

[electronman1729]

[TheGrey]

LOL!

Quite true. I can buy 25# of roma tomatoes for $12.50 at Sprouts through tomorrow.

[roberth]

Yeah but fresh tomatoes taste SO much better.

We have a couple of planters so we'll be getting tomatoes and bell peppers again.... I think.

[buffalobo]

Thanks for the ideas. My dumb brain needed a kickstart. I spent a few minutes and was able to satisfactorily rotate my compost pile.

Pitchfork or potato fork will help.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[buffalobo]

Yeah but fresh tomatoes taste SO much better.

We have a couple of planters so we'll be getting tomatoes and bell peppers again.... I think.

And you know "what" is on them and "who" has handled them.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[Irving]

I've got a pitch fork, I just have a huge compost area.

[buffalobo]

We have 2 garden plots and alternate them every other year. Grow crops on one while composting on the other. Makes composting much easier and less labor intensive.

Actually, using tractor to work compost makes it less labor intensive and tilling regularly helps keep any odors to minimum.

[Irving]

That's interesting as I was wondering why I couldn't just uproot everything at the end of the season, leave it in place, then just till it right into the soil. Would that be effective?