It's getting to be that time...

[MiHale]

Reflecting upon it this is one of my favorite times in the garden, soil building time. I love growing my soil.
Been working all season for this. After every harvest in the raised bed we amend the soil as naturally as we can. In the spring I save a goodly amount of the grass clippings catching it in the grass catcher. I pile the clippings up next to the compost pile which we use to cover the composting stuff. And we grow Comfrey…a lot of comfrey.

I’ll usually get 4 to 5 harvests off the plants, I chop and dry most for use in the winter growing season…great fertilizer. We’ve found it’s good for seed starts as it’s hard to over-fertilize…anyway….time to put it to use.

The onions are done, pulled and drying this is the bed I’m working on. Cut down a comfrey bed and put it in the now empty raised bed.




This is another bed of comfrey similar in size to the one I processed today.



All that biomass went into the raised bed



Along with a wheelbarrow full of the grass clippings that have been ‘marinating’ by the compost pile.



Mix throughly let rest till the snow melts.



We all brag, and rightfully so, about our veggies. How good they taste, how many vitamins are in them, etc, etc. But we do need to replace the good stuff so we can enjoy the same next year.

Grow your soil first.