Goat manure in the Subaru!
My first 2 days off of school, I have spent doing manual labor! It sure has been enjoyable though having the time to work on my hobby :-) I got advice from a friend and looked on the internet and built a raised garden bed on Monday and then filled it with dirt yesterday! Most of you know though, that we don't have a truck, but a Subaru Outback, and I didn't want the hassle of borrowing a truck, so I thought, hey, it's an older car, and it's an Outback! So, I put a tarp down and Sammie and I went to get some 'free' goat manure that I saw listed on Craig's list. Well, it was about a 40 min. drive to get the stuff, and when we got there, it smelled so bad! There were tons of little goats that were so cute. Sammie was a good sport, and we both shoveled manure until we couldn't stand it anymore. Three of the goats were loose and kept wanting to get into the car! They are evidently used to riding in their own Subaru :-) So, the adventure wasn't bad so far, until the drive home, we had to ride with the poo 40 min. back to Nampa! Even with the windows down we were carrying the farm smell with us! For me, I enjoyed it, I felt like I'd been back home to Indiana for a little while. Sammie on the other hand, well, maybe she won't wear flip-flops next time we shovel manure!
Wow, I need to clean out the car
So, the manure is great compost, but I still didn't have enough dirt to fill my 4x8 foot long raised bed. Went to Zamzow's yesterday morning and found out they sell top soil in bulk. So, again, no truck, I loaded up 1/2 cubic yard of topsoil onto some cardboard in the back of the Subaru! I shoveled until my back was on fire, but I got it all in there! Then went to Lowe's in search of a wheel-barrel. After squeezing that into the front passenger side, I finally made it home to unload my treasure of dirt.
Slowly but surely
What seemed like a LOT of dirt, quickly dissapeared into the resesses of my raised bed. I mixed the soil with that great smelling goat manure, and shoveled and filled the bed. I was a little short and had to dig up some dirt areas along the fence line to fill it. I also had some well rotted horse manure from a friend of Brian's at work that I was able to mix in. We should have some really great soil to grow all our plants in!
Yeah, a filled garden bed!
It's a good thing I was too tired to plant my garden yesterday, it got down to 33 degrees last night! Pretty chilly for the tomatoes! It will have to wait a few more days, I'm doing some photo demos as local high schools this week. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the adventure!
Goat manure in the Subaru!
Wow, I need to clean out the car
Slowly but surely
Yeah, a filled garden bed!
