Project Garden Noob - Year 6

And my garden on my mind. I'm so funny. Garden fever has started, which kinda creeps me out (who have I become?!).  Sadly, we've been dealing with a lot on the home front and are a little behind on where we were this time last year. Hubby and I never had the chance to start seedlings indoors.  I feel bad, since he built such an awesome seedling system last year.  But next year will be different, and it's not going anywhere. So last weekend (April 11th), we did make some progress by adding dirt/compost to our garden.  We went to Santa Fe Sand and Gravel .  They had several soil blends to choose from.  We choose 1.5 sq. yds. of their Planter's Mix and 1.5 sq. yds. of their Grower's Supreme. The Planter's Mix is 70% topsoil and 30% compost.  So decent filler dirt.  The Grower's Supreme is made of the following: 15% Humus 30% Bark 15% Sand 25% Peat Moss 3% White Pumice 2% Expanded Shale 10% Sheep Compost I really have no idea what ...

Only my husband and I would be crazy enough, in the dead of winter, to start composting (yes, this post is maybe two months late). It came about a bit half-hazard (obviously), our yard has four massive trees, which in turn generate massive amounts of leaves that we bag up and send to the landfill. We decided to keep some of the leaves, mulch them, and leave them in a pile.  Said pile hung out for a while until we read up a bit on composting.  Realized we needed to add those kitchen scraps to get the whole process going, my husband took one of my jamming pots that was gathering dust and boom, created a countertop composter (side note: we are not experiencing a lot of smell by not having a fancy, aerated composter.  Maybe it would breakdown more with more aeration, but so far, the cheap solution is working for us.). So then we started dumping kitchen scraps outside and burying them in the middle of the random leaf/grass clippings pile.  Then I had a moment of pan...