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SQWIBB · February 16, 2018

February 12th - February 15th

The weather was really nice Thursday so I played in the garden a bit

Earlier in this post I said I wasn't going to drive all over collecting leaves and grounds from Starbucks, guess what?... I caved and called my closest Starbucks Wednesday and stopped there Thursday after work. They saved me 5 gallons of grounds in one day. I'm undecided if I want to keep doing this long term.

Some Starbucks have a program called "Grounds for your Garden".

I amended my Koi Pond Patio Hugelkultur bed with 5 gallons of Charged Bio-char, 5 gallons of coffee grounds and 5 gallons of rabbit manure/bedding. Once this settles I'll top with some of my compost.

All my garlic rotted that I planted up on the hill, I decided to test my "Coarse" Bio-char mulch idea as a permanent mulch in front of the fence. My hopes are that I will never need to mulch this bed again. when I add amendments I will just move the mulch, add the amendments and push the mulch back. I have a few beds out front that I will try this on as well, hey, if it doesn't work, I'll just amend it into the soil.

I installed my Mayop trellises one in the front yard and one on the side of the house.

I started collecting rain water in 5 gallon buckets until I can get my rain barrels hooked up and they're all full, it poured last night. I'll probably top off the ponds with the rain water for now.

February 16, 2018	#4
SQWIBB Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Philly 7A Posts: 739	February 12th - February 15th The weather was really nice Thursday so I played in the garden a bit Earlier in this post I said I wasn't going to drive all over collecting leaves and grounds from Starbucks, guess what?... I caved and called my closest Starbucks Wednesday and stopped there Thursday after work. They saved me 5 gallons of grounds in one day. I'm undecided if I want to keep doing this long term. Some Starbucks have a program called "Grounds for your Garden". I amended my Koi Pond Patio Hugelkultur bed with 5 gallons of Charged Bio-char, 5 gallons of coffee grounds and 5 gallons of rabbit manure/bedding. Once this settles I'll top with some of my compost. All my garlic rotted that I planted up on the hill, I decided to test my "Coarse" Bio-char mulch idea as a permanent mulch in front of the fence. My hopes are that I will never need to mulch this bed again. when I add amendments I will just move the mulch, add the amendments and push the mulch back. I have a few beds out front that I will try this on as well, hey, if it doesn't work, I'll just amend it into the soil. I installed my Mayop trellises one in the front yard and one on the side of the house. I started collecting rain water in 5 gallon buckets until I can get my rain barrels hooked up and they're all full, it poured last night. I'll probably top off the ponds with the rain water for now.