[Carriage Hill]

I'll bet you have a great compost pile, with all that green matter. Here's a pic of our commercial pile - around 350 tons at peak - at the old, now-closed Family Farm:

[Sarajevo]

I would love to have that pile on my place. My soil is all caliche. The only way I can grow is in raised beds.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Ha! I wish! I actually don’t have a compost pile, although I have threatened to start one on many occasions. I think that not planting the garden area every year, plus good soil, plus tilling in the old plants, plus a very rare application of cow manure is what has sufficed for me. After I retire I’ll probably look into a fixing up a good compost pile...unless I get distr...Look a squirrel!