Hello All,
The garden really so nice to spend time in after that massive clean-up last week. We did some watering of the back flower beds and light weeding yesterday. The hook-up for the hose reel that was out there in the main courtyard seems busted and I couldn't jam it back together enough to prevent significant leaks, so I dragged out the smaller reel from the basement and used that instead. We may try to water the front yards today as well. But if anyone's wondering what's happening out there in terms of the hoses, that's why.
We tumbled the compost a few times. It appears that someone mixed compost in with the mulch that we had put in the blue plastic tub a few weeks ago. Can we still use this mixture to put on top of beds to keep weeds down, etc.? The bed around the tree in the center of the garden is a good candidate.
I also dragged out a large copper vessel that was behind the dryers to hold yard waste so we may try keeping the mulch separately again. As some point, I intend to cut up the bamboo laying around and place it in there. Warning: This vessel has a false bottom and will leak. But I think that also makes it a good candidate to store yard waste that we do not want to put in the compost tumbler since it will drain.
Let me know if we should do any of this differently.
Mulch/compost mix(I assume you are talking about ripe compost and not still in the process of decomposition) can be spread on top of bed number 3 (the one with the tree) as you suggested.
ReplyDeleteIt will keep it moist and richer. I think it's time to close the compost bin to new input and let it ripen. I will put a sign on it.