ConnWin
Active Member
Hi all, as I’ve posted elsewhere, I’ve been preparing a small field opposite my house in Kyoto Japan. It’s going very slowly, due to it being winter and me working full time.
As I’ve been seeing neighbours cutting and pruning trees, collecting autumn leaves etc, I’ve asked them to pile them up in my field, so have started to get a decent pile going.
However, as I’ve been preparing the soil I’ve noticed it’s really not great. Not seen any bugs or worms still.
I’ve have to use a little handheld rotavator to mix up the soil a bit but ideally from next year I don’t want to dig.
So my question is this, would it be better to get the pile into a compost bay as soon as possible to get it composting, to hopefully spread on top of the beds next year?
Or would it be better to dig it into the beds now?
They aren’t raised beds and I currently have no means to make raised beds, so would just have to dig and bury the material.
Pictures for reference.
Thanks in advance.
As I’ve been seeing neighbours cutting and pruning trees, collecting autumn leaves etc, I’ve asked them to pile them up in my field, so have started to get a decent pile going.
However, as I’ve been preparing the soil I’ve noticed it’s really not great. Not seen any bugs or worms still.
I’ve have to use a little handheld rotavator to mix up the soil a bit but ideally from next year I don’t want to dig.
So my question is this, would it be better to get the pile into a compost bay as soon as possible to get it composting, to hopefully spread on top of the beds next year?
Or would it be better to dig it into the beds now?
They aren’t raised beds and I currently have no means to make raised beds, so would just have to dig and bury the material.
Pictures for reference.
Thanks in advance.