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How to Amend Garden Soil with Compost

December 4, 2019 kbjanda

See how I use compost to amend garden soil over the winter.

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Winter composting is a little bit slower, but after clearing my bin in the fall and adding to it all winter, I usually have several (sifted) buckets of finished compost by spring. Next opportunity, I'll do a winter composting update on YT to show just how well it's coming along. Are you keeping up with winter composting?? 😃

A little winter gardening with my favorite helpers ❤️ (though I'm not thrilled to see that daffodil poking up already 😬)

After some winter doldrums, today was a beautiful day and I was inspired to get my seed act together. One of the sleds is coming in handy as I sort for salvia seeds 😅

Thinking *forward* to warmer days and a more interesting landscape. We've lost many plants and trees over our Colorado winters, so I'm always anxious for everything to awaken each spring 😬. I'm definitely the crazy lady who digs in the bare soil or scratches the tree branches looking for green. 😜 Then, after they've proven to be alive, I get SO excited to see how much growth everything will put on! In a young landscape like ours, every year is epic 😃 . What do you most look forward to in the spring garden? Green? Privacy again? The excitement of new growth? Possibilities for new plantings or projects? ALL of the above? 🤩🤩🤩

Top nine of 2019! It's been a fun year of sharing garden moments, and I can't wait for all the projects and progress to come in 2020 . 🌱🌷🌼 . . So, what are you excited for in the new year?!

💧Are you keeping up on winter watering?💧 🌲 I have a monthly reminder to water our 8 young evergreens, or I would totally forget. If the ground around them is dry, I give each plant about 2 gallons (it should probably be much more) with a little waiting time in between. I keep an eye on their brighter green leaves to monitor dryness and hopefully avoid sad, copper-colored evergreens come spring. 😬 If the plant is still surrounded by snow, I skip it, like the three arborvitaes next to our West fence. They're in a shadier area that's been covered with snow since Halloween, so I'm guessing the ground is frozen over there. Ahh, micro-climates 🙃 . . Do you water your evergreens in the winter?

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