Saturday, February 21, 2009

Fertilizing our garden

Yesterday a friend loaned us his pick-up and we loaded up some horse manure from a private resident's house. The private resident has two horses so they were glad to be rid of the manure. Instead it smelt like hay and grass. The horse looked at us like we were crazy to want that stuff. But loading it into and out of the pick-up was great exercise. The manure spread over the garden very well. The same friend that loaned us the pick-up truck also told us we could borrow his tiller. This tiller is a gem to use. Last year we used the tiller and we turned over the garden in 15 minutes. With a shovel, it would take us 40 minutes.

I will have photos later, but the camera is with Emily on a sign trip.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That will be really good for the garden - it will make the soil very nice and rich and you'll get great veggies and herbs!