I like that word--compost. A "compost post"! A compost composition. I'll stop.

I have two compost piles on opposite sides of my property. I can seldom get them to work properly, but time is on my side. Eventually they decompose.

Years ago, I took out my garbage disposal. Don't know why I had one in the first place. Ignorance, I suppose. I now use a bucket for scraps.

I also toss grass clippings, weeds, and leaves onto my compost pile. My one pile was heaped 3 weeks ago, but has since shrunk by 75%. It worked for once! The other pile is just sitting there--needs water and a "turnover" (which I hate doing).

Then, sometime in the late winter, I wheelbarrow the final product to the garden for scattering.

My garden location was once the site of a barn. 35 years ago, it was nothing but clay and pebbles. I still dig up pieces of concrete, nails and such. But it's coming along, enriched by TLC (tender loving care)--and compost!

As long as I'm "posting", permit me to update you on this years garden progress--in generalities.

In a word, it's coming along. Another 0.4" rain last evening will help. Everything is up but parsnips (old seeds evidently failed) and a second planting of sweet corn.

I've been eating asparagus, lettuce, and peas just about every day. My salads contain onions, dill, cilantro, spinach, chives, and whatever else I want to toss in (like sunflower seeds and cheese).

I staked and caged 14 tomato plants two days ago. I still have to cover (with coffee cans) sweet potato, brocolli, cabbage, and Br. sp. plants every night, so that the rabbits won't eat them down to the ground. That's a pain.

I tore out an old strawberry patch and thinned out my new one. Raspberries, both red and black, are just now ripening, again, two week early this year. Good timing, since I've depleted my freezer of last year's berries. I've heard that there'll be no blueberries this year from my area because of a late freeze. Boo hoo. The same thing happened to my fruit trees--few peaches, apples, pears, and no almonds. "Compost happens!"

Don't mean to bore you with all this, but some readers are interested in my garden adventures/progress. Growing my own food and eating "properly" are not only priorities, but fun (as well as frustrating). I'm easily entertained!

Have a good weekend.