Improving Fertility

Each spring I have 12 yards of compost delivered to improve the fertility of my garden. As much as my tomato plants love the stuff, it requires several days of back breaking shovelling and hauling natures gold into appropriate areas of the yard.

This year I had a better plan. I hired a guy to aerate the lawn and then spread the compost over the lawn and garden. He was a typical 25 year old young jock who said, no problem, I can get this done in about an hour...and oh by the way...you've got grubs. (Not me personally - my lawn) So I treat the grubs with some stuff that is only legal until April 12, and call my man slave back to finish the job. He takes one look at the several tons of natures fSH, backs away slowly and disappears never to answer his cellphone again.

So every day after work, I am spring training with shovels and wheelbarrows full of the good stuff while the dogs roll around in it and Lil makes e-coli mud pies. I have a timeline of 48 hours because it is supposed to rain like hell on Thursday night and wet compost is bad for property values and neighbourly relationships. By the time Tony got home on Thursday night I thought I was going to need defibrillating...but we got it done before the rain started. So yes the house has lost that just painted smell, but we've got the happiest hydrangeas on the block.