Sunday, 19 September 2021
At home
While Allan worked on the blog post that published a couple of days ago and made some more applesauce, I went outside with my rollator and sifted the remaining contents of compost bin two.
I got two wheelbarrow loads of good compost.
It was a bit of a cheat with the remaining uncomposted debris, though. I had to throw some of it backwards onto the bin three pile instead of forward onto bin one. I like to go in one direction, but bin one was piled too high and I didn’t have the oomph to keep pushing the pile to the back.
Beverly came over to deliver some kitchen compost to the plastic food waste bin and we had a good chat as I finished up. Allan dumped the two wheelbarrow loads for me on the front driveway bed. I still am not steady enough to feel confident with the wheelbarrow.
I put cardboard down on the base of the empty bin to keep the horsetail out. It works if I add new cardboard every time a bin gets emptied.
By then it was evening. I hoped to water in the greenhouses and pick some more tomatoes, but first, I admired the autumnal garden.
I wanted to go to the Bogsy Wood to see if distressed plants had perked up after the rain, but as I looked down this path….
….I had a frustrating wave of dizziness that kept me from going further. However, I reminded myself how much better I was than at the start of the month when there were days I could not leave the house or even shampoo my own head, and so I remained hopeful and accepting of progress being slower than I would like.
Wonderful to read about the progress you have made, even if it is not as fast as you would like.
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Thank you.
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If you are back at the compost bins – that is progress indeed.
My bin nemesis is the neighbour’s bindweed. My compost bins are double lined with landscape fabric down the back and the bottom. Sadly cardboard does not do the trick, as I don’t turn my bins as often as you do – thus giving bindweed a greater chance of getting through the decomposing cardboard.
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My neighbor bindweed nemesis is on the east side where it’s all along her border and coming underground twenty feet into my garden and hanging over my fence. I’ve been too wonky to pull it off the fence lately.
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Kudos to you for getting some gardening chores done in spite of dizziness..and especially for not forgetting to drink in the beauty of growing things. I am putting my garden to bed for the winter but still have goldenrod, asters and my Stanwell Perpetual rose keeping up my spirits. Also the fall colors are beautiful and the geese are flying in V formations overhead, I love the changing of the seasons…
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I do, too. I wonder if autumn and winter will still be my favorite seasons when we retire. Now I crave them as reading time.
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Lovely pictures of the garden. I am glad that you were able to get some composting done. That always cheers me up when I do it.
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Yes, it’s my favorite thing to do in the garden, rather oddly but true.
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The Kniphofia ‘Earliest of All’ is so pretty. All of the colors are vibrant. Think you could send just a little rain this way? .Happy to know you got out and worked with the compost.–That’s progress.
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I wish we could all get the needed rain but not too much.
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The colors in your garden are absolutely gorgeous. Nice work on the compost. Very wise to use the cardboard to keep out the horsetail.
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Thank you!!
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