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Thursday, October 19, 2006
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Tony Pumpkin
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Abbotsford BC
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Spent the last two days after work digging and amending the patch. It sure pays to be friendly to the neighborhood gardener. He dumps more grass and leaf clippings than nature could produce in many years--and I put it all on the patch. Bad ting is there are quite a few pine needles, but I have read that even pine needles break down to a neutral ph 7.0. I got 8 beautiful orange bags of beachnut leaves from a person I know in the neighborhood. They were really dry and fiborous. Probably should have ran them over with the lawnmower, but I put them right on top of the patch and mixed with the grass clippings. Not sure how much more organic material i should add? Can you ever have enough? I will add more aged compost on top of the leaf and grass compost--then a layer of straw and ten a layer of manure. Should have the soil energized by spring, but lots of shovel work to do to even out the compost once it partially breaks down.
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