Tilled in some compost from our kitchen waste pile. I have three piles strategically placed around the yard which I call my dirt factories, and I've spent about three years building them up. This is the first year I've used any of it and I was pleasantly surprised to find some nice dark crumbly compost under the layer of half-decomposed recent additions.
That barrow load was only about 1/3 of what I have. It just sort of looks like dirt but u can see the difference in the second pic against that clay soil. Which should be subsoil -- I live in a damn rainforest but the topsoil on my slope has been stripped after decades as a grass yard.
Tilled the area by hand which was laborious. Generally I have a strict no-till approach but this area was so stripped I figured it was worth disrupting it to add some compost. (also I could use the exercise I've been on T for a while and I'm not taking taking advantage of the gainz)
Anyway here is my new fruit tree guild planted, lined out, and mulched.
I put in a santa rosa plum, white lisbon bunching onions, quinault everbearing strawberries, and one Balkan yarrow. On the right side I will add some lupines for nitrogen fixing. I have a bunch on the other side of the path so it'll look real cute.
Have you danced with a plant today? Planted tip of the day: fill your life with the type of green that doesn't increase your bank account but does increase your highest botanical vibrations. Plants are good for the heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. Dance with a plant, talk with a plant, sing to a plant...go on, you won't look silly at all. I do it nearly every day, and I don't look silly not one bit now do I? 💚✅🤟
Jeremiah 17:8 (NLT) -
They are like trees planted along a riverbank,
with roots that reach deep into the water.
Such trees are not bothered by the heat
or worried by long months of drought.
Their leaves stay green,
and they never stop producing fruit.
I know it’s been forever. I just got caught up with life and work. These yellow king kongs are never going away. They keep breeding so I’m always selling the babies off. There are always a few that I can’t get so they end up breeding again. I don’t want to break down the tank if I know there is a chance of babies that I can’t see yet. Hillstream is the same. More loach babies. I haven’t added anything new so once all the inhabitants die off, there is a high chance I may exit the hobby. That or keep one display tank with nano fish. I don’t know how I kept 20+ tanks in the past. A lot of the hillstream fish are 9 to 13 years old so they are near their average life span. The youngest fish (besides the new babies) is the sicyopterus goby I added a few years ago (3 or 4 years). Still makes me mad when people mention their hillstream loaches living their full life at 3 or 4 years old. They should be living past 10+ years (unless they are sick sick and not because hobbyists can’t provide the correct setup/care). One reason why I refuse to go back to fish forums or FB groups. I only post here once in awhile and Instagram to show off the fish/shrimps.