Manure

Yesterday our neighbor from down the road was over and he mentioned that if I needed any manure he had tons.  Well earlier today I was just trying to decide how to best use the remaining stuff I got from the field, I decided why not save this for my boxes and take him up on his offer.  I headed down to his place, where he even loaded up the truck for me with the tractor.  I figure I ended up with about 1000lbs from 2 ½ bucket loads.  Having him load it was amazing and sure saved me a ton of work.  It isn’t as decomposed as the stuff I have been picking up from the field and not quite as fine.  I like that it is a little bulkier because I added it all to the bottom bed where the tomatoes and peppers are going.  It does also seem to be a little richer, less topsoil mixed in with it so it will go perfectly after I mix it in. 

That was pretty much the extent of today’s activity.  I did also fill up the herb box with regular topsoil and set some aside in buckets for the last pepper box before I put the huge pile of manure on the garden.  I'm actually getting to the point where I don’t have any good topsoil left or have access to some, but I do have access to pretty much as much horse manure as I need.