It’s almost Spring. With a sunny Saturday at hand and time to myself, all I wanted to do was get stuck into my garden. No interruptions, no lunches to make and well, nobody but me, Sunny…. and the chooks.
Before you can start to plant a veggie garden or any type of garden, there are always pesty weeds to deal with. The only thing that grows in my garden all Winter long are weeds.
Once I had dealt with the weeds, I needed to add nutrients to my soil. I keep a compost bin in my backyard which I add most kitchen scraps (the one’s the chickens don’t get first), green and brown organic waste then wait till it breaks down to soil again.
Once my piles of home-brewed compost are in place, I layer it on top of my existing soil and wait. I wait for a few weeks to a month while the rain spreads the nutrients down to the rest of the soil.
What do I do while I wait? I plan my garden. This is where my handy hubby comes in. Honey, where should I plant my beans?
If I didn’t have chooks, I would have put the weeds in my compost bin but I saved them along with some extra worms for my girls. Everyone benefits in one way or another today.
