What better thing to do on a Saturday morning than to get a large shipment of compost...mmmmm! We found a source on Craigs List for some PRIMO compost. Combination of horse and sheep manure that was mixed with shredded yard waste. Then drawn out into 'wind rows' to cook. Yes, comes up to 160 degrees on its own. It is turned multiple times and finally sifted into the wonderful compost. A year old and doesn't smell bad at all.
We got over a dozen strawberry plants in - will probably transplant some when we build the 2nd strawberry bed. Then we got the potatoes and onions in the vegetable raised bed.
The online calculators said we needed 16 cubic yards to fill three 4'x8' raised bed for the veges, and three 3'x3' raised beds for the strawberries. Well, three beds are full and one of the strawberries and doesn't even look like we made a dent in this pile!
Needless to say, I am still laying on a heating pad on Tuesday!We didn't get to the cold frame project yet - but I picked up the windows. Geez, we have enough windows to build a greenhouse! Not sure the coldframe will happen this spring. It might just become a Fall project. We used all the wood on the raised beds, and I probably maxed out my honey-do list for the yard. Chris will be on to other projects like a shed. We also got our delivery of mulch from the Boy Scouts - so I guess our spring yard work is just beginning ;-)
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