Outdoor Garden 2022
The only real spot I have so far because of tall ancient oaks and hickories is about a 10'x15' area that has a giant oak stump about 6' diameter ground down to the previous ground level in the lower right corner. That's the low side, so I am using the upper part by the bird feeder to compost stuff. Lots of bird and squirrel shit in the compost pile
I'll pull that stuff down to the stump corner and get about a foot of dirt above it when everything's level. All the furry oak branches that fall get stuffed in. I get oak and hickory leaves about 2" thick everywhere but they take a year or more to break down. I have a huge maple that drops the leaves early, and they all got mowed up and dumped in before the other stuff fell.
The greenage is the buildasoil cover crop blend. I chucked a handfull a few months ago to see if anything would make me some seeds before I chop it. I mowed a strip down to see what happened. I'll definitely be using a cover crop around the garden this time instead of weeding.
One thng I did for feeding this is get a bag of "deer corn". $5.99 for a 50lb bag of generic seed-corn with no coatings or treatments. I test sprouted a jar full and it had a high germ rate, so I think it is for planting as well as feeders. After about 4 days it has tails and is soft enough for a blender. 2oz of seeds will make a 5-gal bucket worth of food. And you can strain it and feed the pulp to the worms inside or out.