We had 3 cubic yards of compost delivered today! That's actually the smallest amount of compost I've ever had delivered. I get organic mushroom compost, which is supplied by a local company. Last year, I actually did not order compost, although I had some left over from the year before last. But I do like to add quite a bit to my beds each year, so I am very happy to have it again.
I completed my first project with the compost: as a topdressing and mulch for my front flower garden. Now, this area is really terrible. I did a good job of digging out the bermuda grass and weeds the year we moved in, but there were a couple of seasons where I didn't weed at all (hard to weed when your toddler keeps running away from you), and it just got awful again. So, I surrounded my annual seedlings and perinneals with paper and cardboard and spread compost on top of that as a mulch. This is extremely effective in my vegetable garden, and I think it will be in my garden as well. It looks quite nice right now.
The bermuda grass is making me so crazy that I may have to resort to a chemical solution, but for now I'm going to give this a go. I may add a wood mulch next month, so I can repeat the process, adding an additional weed barrier. I find that the paper/cardboard is far more effective against bermuda grass and other weeds than a weed fabric. I'll update on how it goes. I'm hoping for a pretty flower garden this year, which I haven't had for the past 2 seasons!
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