August Garden, Time To Weed

DSC07399 Here is the sago palm bed after weeding.

DSC07396 Here is the sago palm bed before weeding.  Not too bad, but it did take a few minutes.

DSC07397 Among other weeds, I pulled up these  baby sago palms.  I simply discarded them, because they do keep growing.

August Garden, Compost Settling, 2015

DSC07390Here is the dampened compost yesterday.

DSC07401 Here is the compost today.  You can see from the lower side that it settled quite a bit.  We’ll check back on it in a little while.

 

 

August Garden, Compost

 

When I took some compost material to the composter today, the previous additions had quite collapsed, so, I decided to remove some of the browned material from the elephant ears, and accessible plantain leaves which had turned brown, as well as any green, misplaced leaves.  This yielded a full composter, once again DSC07388 Composter full of leaves.

DSC07390 I watered the compost with a hose, and so it collapsed a little.

DSC07391 I put the lid back on and rotated the composter a couple of times.  When the sun hits it tomorrow morning, it will heat up, and hasted the decomposition of the newly added material.  I am going to watch it to see how long it takes to collapse big time.  In the meantime there are plenty of other garden tasks to do.