7:55 am - 9:40 am
After last weeks exercise of moving 80 wheelbarrows of dirt to eliminate my excess dirt pile I can now start cleaning up my compost pile.
This grew unplanned in a semicircle around the excess dirt pile.
Now thats gone I can merge the compost pile into one great heap.
Started on one side first clearing the area shown in red.
Found another smaller white ant nest hidden under the compost!
Lots of creepy crawlies and multiple pencil sized blind snakes.
Moved all this on top of the main pile.
Easy digging and only moving a few metres away.
But was hard getting the wheelbarrow all the way to the top.
Anyway this will count as 'turning over' the compost as now half composted dirt put on top.
Some of this is 3 years old and has composted well.
Some not so well.
In a perfect world would have a bobcat to turn it over every 6 months.
Uncountable wheelbarrows of leaves have gone into this pile.
And more fall every single day.