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Acquire and Layer Municipal Compost

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What happens here

Investigate if your local municipality offers compost, often derived from collected leaf and grass debris, usually at a very affordable rate (e.g., $20 per pickup truck load). This compost is typically rich in nitrogen and organic matter. Apply a layer of this compost, approximately 3 to 4 inches deep, over the initial organic matter in your raised beds. This compost layer acts as a natural slow-release fertilizer and helps smother existing weeds, preventing new ones from sprouting.

Goal: Source high-quality compost, potentially from a local municipal compost center, and add a significant layer to the top of your raised beds to enhance fertility and suppress weeds.

Tools and materials

  • Rake
  • Shovel
  • Specialized Hoe/Broadfork
  • Tractor with Front-End Loader
  • Municipal Compost

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let's show you this black gold right here and talk to you about where you can get let me tell you something that you may or may not know about your local municipality if you live in a city or have a city nearby that gathers leaf debris and grass debris off the curb then you probably have access to this and you didn't even know it this is compost from our local compost center look at that that is black gold that is awesome awesome stuff that's going in the planter bed so what we're going to do is we're going to take this is way too much this is way way too much but it's 20 bucks a pickup truck load and or 20 bucks a ton so if you bring a pickup truck as much as you can fit in a pickup truck for 20 bucks man and look at this stuff it's absolutely awesome now you do have to be careful and it's a little bit what they call hot in other words it has high nitrogen content when we start scooping into this with the shovel you'll see steam rolling off of it especially if you get this in the early spring steam will be rolling off of it check your local municipality you may have access to the most awesome compost on earth guys post a comment down there if you do or if you've ever used this stuff you kind of got to be a little bit wary because some people may have used herbicides in their lawns so we got to think about that just a little bit however i've never had an issue with compost harming my garden vegetables it's only made them go boom with growth what we're going to do is we're going to put a layer about that deep probably about three to four inches deep in the top of each one of these beds for weed control and whenever weeds come up all i'm going to do is scoop out more compost and throw it right on top of the weed and it'll roast it so we got to get to

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