There are winter chores here or rather, dry season chores. There's always work to do in the garden even though some of it may be simply envisioning the future. So I've been spending time with these babies, a machete and a wood chipper. I try to recycle all organic matter right back into the soil, but it needs moisture to break down. I had a large compost pile.... note the past tense... some three years of accumulation. It was a couple of meters tall and three meters wide and deep. And in a mere seven days (whew) all of it went through the chipper and the resulting mulch is spread, in some places eight to ten inches deep. . I'm hoping it will all break down and make a really nice soil when I add some of the hundreds of kilos of worm casings I have. However, nothing will happen until it rains, maybe a month or two away... ojala!
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