Urban farming

This weekend was highly productive all around the house, including the garden. I turned the compost, which I have been doing every three weeks, and in the process scooped out three 5-gallon buckets of finished compost! I've been working on this compost pile for well over a year and I finally figured out it needed to be turned a lot more often then I was before. To use the compost, I created a small raised bed with some bricks and rocks we had sitting around the yard. I soaked the dirt and turned it a bit, then mixed the first 5 gallons of compost in. I got a bag of potting soil and put half of that on there, mixed it some more, dumped the second batch of compost on, then the rest of the soil, then the rest of the compost. Yay Garden Weasel!

So what did I plant? Seeds of sunflowers, columbine, statice, onions and carrots. Tonight I already noticed a couple holes in the bed so I put some netting over it to prevent future sampling by squirrels and birds. Hopefully the compost will turn out to be effective and the seeds will turn into something great!

Ah, the smell of melting Velcro

I just found that the plasticy grippy side of the Velcro melts when you iron it on the highest setting! Woo! It actually didn't smell like anything, thank goodness. But I do have to figure out how to clean that off my iron. (I was ironing a patch next to some Velcro.)