Compost and Garden

This is one of my compost bins. I went with the pallet construction because they are free and I like free. Robin has often said my bins are not the prettiest, but she has no problem with the black gold that comes out of them.

I would love to have one of those cool (expensive) composting barrels, but this method has worked for us so far, and a little pitchforking never hurt anybody.

This hayfield is our vegetable garden. That's right, if you don't know, we are lasagna gardeners.

We tried the "no dig" method last year and were pleasantly surprised how well our garden did. So we made the garden bigger and this is where our potatoes and onions are planted. The hay kind of flattens the picture out, but you can see some of the hills started for the potatoes in the back.

Strawberries are coming along nicely, we have our fingers crossed on these guys.