This morning we got bonus weather. After breakfast it was sixty degrees and sunny. Not a cloud in the sky. I got the compost pile sifted, even though it was really too wet to be a pleasant job. The sifted material went on top of the shredded corn stalks.
This bed below, which will be planted with flowers, has almost no organic material left in the soil. I put the rough siftings which contained a lot of shredded leaves from the lawn mower on that.
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It will need to be raked a little at planting time, but the leaf component will make good mulch.
The compost tube got dumped.
The buckwheat stems were removed from the beds and put in the empty tube.
The bed is prepared for peas to be planted over the next couple of weeks.
And then the weather started to turn so we came in for lunch.
Right now we have a wicked front coming through gusting 70 mph. The outdoor lights are on, and the house is groaning a bit. This should wash everything clean and blow any loose leaves out of the compost. I'm pretty happy with what I got accomplished during my bonus morning.
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