Today was a full-on gardening day. Previously, I'd been
following my own advice and spending 20 minutes a day working on the yards. I had managed to clear out the side yard in three days, but today was going to be full day of working on the gardens.
Imagine having 10 cubic yards of organic compost dumped into your driveway. Better yet, here's a picture of what it looks like.
We purchased and moved 12 cubic yards of compost into the back yard garden this two years ago, to great success in the garden. 12' sunflowers with 18" heads, more food than we could eat, a billion tomatoes, yeah.
If you're in the Bay Area, and need organic compost, I highly recommend Wheeler Farm. The prices are great (about 1/3 the cost of compost from any gardening or home improvement store), and the owners fantastic.
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So, moving this compost. The goal was to move it from the front driveway, to the back garden area. Full preparation of the garden involved tilling the garden, moving the compost to the garden, spreading the compost, then, if needed, tilling again.
Which is what I did.
Alone.
Kris was sick, so I ended up moving all the compost myself for today. He managed to keep the girls from bark-bark-barking at me all day, which was good. But it was a lot of work.
Even with all the compost moving, I barely made a dent in my 5 cubic yards of the 10 cubic yards in the driveway.
Took me about 4 hours to move as much as I did. It took me a while to get started because of the cascading issues for the tools.
To move the compost, I needed the wheelbarrow.
To use the wheelbarrow, I needed to dump the current compost (from my compostor) out of it.
To move that compost out, I needed to have a place to move it to.
To create a space to move the compost to, I had to cut down, clear, and move plants next to the house where they don't belong.
To cut, clear and move, I had to, well, it keeps going. I spent the first 40+ minutes cleaning up the various parts of the yard just so that I could just get going. Urf.
I still have the compost for the side yard to place. And the front yard.
