My Grandpa, who was a prime gardener in his day, always tilled the fall leaves into the garden and then as soon as the snow melted off enough for him to get at the dirt had at it with cow manure.
We've just recently bought a house and have not had time to acquire all those handy tools that apartment dwellers have no room for (like a saw), so I am trying the world's simplest "compost pile." Pile it up, water well, cover with big tarp held down with rocks/logs and let the sun cook it for a few months. Pretty it isn't, but the method is reported to make nice compost. We'll see along about August.
|