This is the blog post that was supposed to be written the weekend of Saturday May 24 and Sunday May 25. Life got in the way. The days leading up to the weekend were plagued with rain and generally lousy weather. It felt like winter had returned. Then came Memorial Day weekend, weather was nice. Sunny, not too hot, great time to work in the backyard garden, what little there is. I live in Brooklyn, New York after all.
I am no gardening expert but I do enjoy weeding, sweeping things up and adding the stuff to one of my compost containers. Two of the containers were pickle barrels, something left behind at a house that a friend of mine was selling, as a real estate agent. The third one is a spare garbage bin. Nothing fancy, no tumbling mechanism, other than the occasional rolling around I give to the barrels. I enjoy smashing the stuff inside, either with an ice-breaker, or with a shovel. I also use a trident to turn things over, occasionally. In general, I just let things rot. If heavy rain is expected, I would open the containers' lids and let them help catch some rain water. It happened once that the rain came down so fast and so heavy that water got into basement. The French drains could only absorb so much.
Besides fiddling the compost bins, I also cleared out the so-called lattice I created for the chayote vines to climb last spring and summer. To make room for a loquat tree that my wife has kept in a pot in the backyard. The plan is to cover it up during the winter. We will see how that goes.
The final thing I did in the garden for the long weekend was to empty out one of the compost bin. I like to think of it as compost cash-in. I don't think the stuff was as good as it could have. Probably too much of the same stuff, namely dead leaves, vines, etc. I saw maybe only one or two worms. Oh well, hopefully with the weather gets better in June I will spend more time tending to the compost bins.
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