Mulch For The Community Garden

in #hive-1406353 years ago

Hello, hivers and garden lovers!

A couple of days ago, I decided to haul some of my shredded leaf mulch up to the community garden for one of my garden beds. I covered the other garden beds last fall, but I wasn't able to finish covering one of the beds before it started snowing.

I started the process by filling a couple of my big plastic totes with mulch from the pile. It's the easiest way to carry the mulch up to the community garden.

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The easiest way to move the full totes to the back garden gate is with my railroad flatcar.

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From there, I loaded the totes into the back of my old Explorer and hauled them up to the garden. I took my wheelbarrow with me to move the totes from the vehicle to the garden plot. My old back doesn't like carrying heavy totes anymore...

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After dumping the totes onto the garden, I got distracted by the dead corn stalks in the other end of this double plot. (I'm easily distracted by garden chores) I was curious to see if I could pull out the corn stalks yet, so I tried a few. That led to clearing out all the corn stalks.

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After all that work, I finally got back to spreading out the compost with the rake.

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I still need at least 1 more tote full of compost to finish this garden plot. That's going to have to wait a few days because the weather changed to rain and colder. I'm sure there's more nice days coming soon, so I'll get back the mulching then.

That's all I have for this post, thanks for checking it out!

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I am curious, is the back yard rail at a specific Gauge? or custom of your own.

The gauge of my garden railroad is 7-1/2 inches. That's one of the standard gauges for "ride on" railroads in most of the U.S. The U.S. east coast and Great Britain use a gauge of 7-1/4 inches.
There are other smaller, and larger gauges, but this gauge is practical for doing some actual work without taking up the space that a wider gauge would take up. Also, there's a lot of parts available for this gauge.

and I sit on that mythical east Coast US... so, we're always a little bit "odd"

I always find that kind of garden work rewarding. Your railway is such a good way to prevent an aching back!

It does seem to help. 😊

I love the railroad, it surely is helps a lot in your gardening.

Thank you.

You're welcome (^_^)


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