I always find my compost is in two separate layers in early spring, but once I do a thorough stirring, I don't usually need to do more than the bottom-to-top type of turning for the rest of the summer. Although, in my case it's the bottom of composter A to the top of composter B so that I always have one full one (fuller composters break down stuff faster) and one open for new stuff. One thing I LOVE about the City of Toronto is their openness to helping people reduce garbage and water use by providing low-cost composters and rainbarrels. Is it the same in Hamiliton?
I was thinking about this post last night, and wanted to add (sorry for the unsolicited advice I'm bombarding you with!), if you literally meant you were going to put the hostas in a straight line, you might want to rethink that. It's a plant that looks a little goofy and sparse in a straight line, at least until it has had a chance to fill back out after division, which can take a couple of years. My border hostas are in a zig-zag pattern X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X _X_X_X_X_X_X_X
which looks good, but usually I cluster them in threes like this:
X.X....X....X.X .X....X X....X
which, for hostas, looks a little better, and then they spread out into nice clumps.
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Date: 2007-04-24 12:37 pm (UTC)I was thinking about this post last night, and wanted to add (sorry for the unsolicited advice I'm bombarding you with!), if you literally meant you were going to put the hostas in a straight line, you might want to rethink that. It's a plant that looks a little goofy and sparse in a straight line, at least until it has had a chance to fill back out after division, which can take a couple of years. My border hostas are in a zig-zag pattern
X_X_X_X_X_X_X_X
_X_X_X_X_X_X_X
which looks good, but usually I cluster them in threes like this:
X.X....X....X.X
.X....X X....X
which, for hostas, looks a little better, and then they spread out into nice clumps.