We pulled up all the remaining garden veggies and turned the topsoil a few weeks ago, but I also wanted to lay in a layer of compost and leaves deep in the garden bed, which we finally did this past Sunday. Hit a few slabs of concrete about a foot and a half down. My husband said they are from an old barbecue pit.

My sons Scott & Todd having lots of fun digging and digging. They were mad at first at having to help, but once we started finding rocks and concrete they got excited and proclaimed it an archeological dig, LOL.

Another slab of concrete we had to dig out:

There were injuries! In trying to team-lift one of the concrete slabs Scott’s fingers got pinned for a brief moment. It just broke the skin on one finger but it was scary for a minute and even bruised his nail beds. We were out of band-aids so we made one with toilet paper and tape. After he got patched up he said, I’m ready to get back to work!

A trench with a layer of compost on the bottom then getting covered in leaves.

I started by digging an entire trench and shoveling the dirt into a garbage can and then laying the compost, then laying the leaves, then covering the whole thing up with the dirt from the can. By the second trench I was through. So I then just dug a square about 2 feet across, then laid in compost, then covered in leaves, then dirt. Here is one such square.

About a quarter way through, whew! Brian came out and helped, thank goodness.

All done, I am so happy that my garden bed is all tucked in for the winter. In the spring I will do it all again with another layer of compost, and go over it with a roto-tiller before planting. I think we will have a very nice harvest next year!

This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

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