Coffee Grounds and Garden Sheds

I love how gardening is having such a resurgence around the United States. Or maybe it never left, I'm just more in tune to its presence now.

For example, I was grocery shopping a couple weeks ago at a King Soopers with one of those Starbucks near the entrance. Low and behold, there was a box of free coffee grounds - Grounds for your Garden.

I snagged the last two bags and put them in our compost holding container. Since we have a tumbler composter, it's recommended to fill with it your materials then stop adding materials until the batch is done, which is the stage we are in right now. Since I didn't want to stop collecting kitchen scraps, we took a plastic tub with some holes and that's where "compost ingredients of the future" go.

Other exciting news, I finally broke down and agreed to get a shed for our back yard. There are so many bulky items taking up our garage (i.e., wheelbarrow, fertilizer spreader, various sleds and kid equipment, etc...).

We decided to order this sexy thing:

It's roughly 7x7 and should hold lots of junk nicely. I'm looking forward to putting in some peg board and having a place to hang all our garden tools actually near the garden.

My husband is diligently trying to get the foundation space ready, which of course will be no small feat because, of course, there is a sprinkler line and head right smack in the middle of our desired location. To be continued.

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