I have the ability to visit my local city composting center and pick up an entire truckload of compost. Of course, I need to make the time to pickup the compost and then also to spread it. The holiday season is not the best time to make plans like this with all the other activities. Of course, this time of year is exactly when most of us would benefit from spending some time in our garden or greenhouse, just to help center us and let us relax for a few hours. This will probably have to wait until after the turn of the New Year, but I can, at the least, plan for it.
Planning is sometimes the best part of gardening, after all.
Several of the beds will need to have their edging reinforced or replaced completely. The previous owners used the typical brown plastic edging around everything in the garden. We have removed much of it, but that which remains needs to be set back into the ground. Most of it is merely sitting on the surface and this allows any mulch or amendments to spill out into the gravel paths. If you have any ideas that might help me rejuvenate these areas in the back garden, send them along to the AGN Mailing List .