This is a picture of more than just dirt, this is our super special homemade compost and it is going to help us grow beautiful fruits and vegetables next year.
Dadzoo has been carefully tending our little pile of composting material and worms this summer, watering it once a week and turning everything over. This is our best compost year yet!
Part of being a Homesteader is getting excited over a pile of compost.
The picture below is of our side yard, it is the largest square footage of yard we have, not including the front. In the spring we are planning on adding 7 garden boxes, about 300 square feet.
Along the north and south boarders of out property we had grass growing right to the line. The key work here is “had”. A few weeks ago Dadzoo killed about the three foot strip along each side.
Thanks to the loan of a tiller from a good neighbor we were able to till under the dead grass and work on preparing the new beds.
We also tore up my herb garden that never really produced herbs, only weeds and are going to plant a fruit tree. We haven’t decided on the tree yet we are still thinking about it. We wanted to maybe plant a pear, then learned that a pear tree needs a close pollinator, and I don’t really want to plant another pear tree. I need to find out if any of the neighbors have pears….
These are the garden boxes that were removed from the herb/weed garden awaiting their new home.
We are adding a good layer of compost over the tilled up grass and then we will till it all in together again. In the spring we will add even more compost before we plant. The soil where I live is poor and requires a lot of work, that is why I love my raised beds so much, I just make my own soil.
We are going to plant grapes, raspberries and black berries to create a natural hedge, that will not only look pretty, give us some privacy, but will also produce food.
In urban homesteading it is all about blooming where you are planted.
