After moving around our little compost heap several times for almost 2 years, we finally put it in its final resting place enclosed in the back corner of the yard and so began the miracle-making.
I mean seriously, how cool is it that you dump old scraps of all kinds and little wormies and friends and chemicals get to work producing this dark, gorgeous, lusciousness that plants looooooove.
And so in the summer as our little garden was struggling after an insanely soppy June and realizing that the LeafGro / Topsoil combo we'd bought may not have been the nutritious blend we'd desired, I began spreading some of the bottom compost. And it helped a lot!
Several weeks later as I'm tending to my various garden plants and the little weeds around the base of them, I think, "Ok, those look an awful lot like tomato plants....and those like squash plants! But how would those plants have gotten there? I wouldn't have planted them so close together?!"
And then it hits me.
The compost!
Yes, there I was transplanting dozens of fertile little seeds just waiting to be put into the sunlight before they can begin their life again!
[sigh]
Not under my tomatoes, peppers and beans, you don't!
Have I missed something about how compost is supposed to work?
Am I not waiting long enough? Letting it "compost" enough?
It looks so rich and wonderful! Of course any and everything wants to grow in it!!
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