Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

I finnished working on the bottom of that trench. What I've got out there is a raised bed about four feet across and... about ten to fifteen feet long. I had a sheet compost heep going on in that for a couple years. The borders are mounded dirt about six inches high and on top of those are the 16/8 blocks. The dirt mounds or berms slope out away from the bed. Along the lingth of that I hav dug an eight inch deep trench, and the dirt from that is sitting beside it kind of in a berm. So there is a berm the trench then the loosely piled berm. I've filled the trinch with organics which will shrink down quite a bit over the next few days as they dry out.

I was looking at this and decided to change the plan. I was going to pull the dirt back over the organic in a few days, but I am now going to put a bunch of the compost from the top of the raised bed in the space between the berms and let it sit. I can then use the raised bed to plant stuf. All of this is on one side of my backyard. the trench is on the side of the bed toward the middle of the yard, so I will next spring, if I still live here, plant a rosemary hedge where the trench is.

And that is part of integrated pest management 101...

On the other hand, I checked at USAK, and they have fairly good sounding charcoal colored hose for about twenty dollars. I think I will get some for my Nightstalker kilt. They would probably go with my kakhi BK too. If I'm also thinking about going for a Gray Granite USAK at some point, so I'm still thinking over all this stuff. I have already decided to get the brown Lewis hose from STM to go with my Weathered Half Lamont.