Gardening

Is it in rows or beds? I have 4 4'x12' beds. I originally filled them with mushroom compost (about 8 years ago). They are now needing an overhaul. I have composted successfully (after failed efforts) and today sifted about 30 gallons of finished compost, spread some of it where I am planting fall plants and stored the rest. In the one bed I am concentrating on this winter I am lasagna or sheet composting. I piled some semi-finished compost, compostables from the kitchen and yard waste over it. In a couple of days I will spread most of a bale of wheat straw over all of that and wet it down good with water from my rain barrels. Over the next few months I will take any kitchen scraps and yard waste and put it around in that bed under the straw. By summer it will pretty much be composted and ready for planting. That bed is for okra, so will be the last planted next year.

If I still owned a truck, I would top my beds off every year with the mushroom compost. If you can get some, that I where I would put my money if I were paying for amendments for my garden.