We collect all of our fall grass clippings and leaves (no small volume on six acres) and those added to the pig and chicken litter and household scraps make up much of our compost pile. It is turned throughout the off season and watered if necessary depending on our weather. Then over this time it breaks down into a rich soil that we use to amend garden beds at the end of the season, as well as top dress new tender plantings during growing time.
As with most springs our weather is unpredictable, with warm temperatures last weekend, a moderate week, cold and blustery today, and 75 expected for Sunday. We just learn to roll with it, and today and tomorrow it is the perfect time to take care and adjust one of our legacy plantings, our asparagus. A few stems are just poking through, and this is reportedly the perfect time to transplant if necessary. When we planted them seven or so years ago, we cleared a grassy area between the barns. As we dug, we realized it was very rocky, and probably part of an old driveway. We worked at it, amended the soil and put them in, but they have never really thrived. So we are now going to take advantage of the hugelkultur that Brian build last year to transplant the crowns. A fitting task on this Earth Day
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