Show off.

Mulch with it. Then mulch some more.

I would do exactly the same....mulch everywhere I could. I never have enough homemade compost, even for my small garden, so I purchase whatever extra I need to mulch with.

I only have half a ton and I spread it on my vegetables.

Man can not live on beauty alone...

I don't know. Nothing sets off a row of red and green lettuce like the perfect chocolatey mulch. I'm almost embarrassed to say, though---because now it really does sound like I'm a horrible braggart---that I have enough compost both for the eye and the stomach. I think when I'm done going round distributing it everywhere, I'll start at the beginning again.

Don't put yourself down.

I don't think you are a horrible braggart.

You appear to be very good at it...

lol

I'm GREAT at it. I'm going to wait a few weeks before I mention all my leaf mould. I bragged about them both at once once and people were furious.

Well, I hope you don't mind my joining you with my leafmold riches! : )) I am putting it on all my beds and then some. At the moment it's going into 5 gal buckets for easier carrying when I plant roses. I need to empty out that bin, so I can toss in the leaves from the adjoining one. This doesn't even include the 4 bins I have on the lower level. My neighbors think I'm weird asking for their leaf bags, but it's worth it, isn't it?

vaporvac is even worse than I am! Don't you all come down on him or her for bragging so, though. It takes a lot of nerve to come on here and show off like that.

Seriously, though, I got awful jealous for a minute. I could just see that crumbly wealth of chocolatey mould you're toting around in a five gallon pail and I wished it were mine. As if I need any extra!!

There must be some kind of place for this

said our annpat to the heap

so much distribution

I'll give my veggies relief.

Those web folks, they'll all whine

when I cover the earth.

In the end I don't mind

cuz they're all saying "My Word!"

tj

Guess I shouldn't mention my alpaca or turkey manure.... already aged two years when I picked it up for cheap!!!! ; 0

Probably shouldn't. I'm starting to regret starting this thread. I had no idea that someone was going to step forward and go on and on about their alpaca manure. Hey, wait a minute. How do we know you're telling the truth? It seems like you're piling it on a little thick now.

(Get it?)

I don't have real compost but I do have leaf mulch that has really broken down over the couple of years it has been in a windrow out in my back yard. The town brought me 8 large trucks ( approximately 200 - 250 cubic yards) that had been vacuumed out of the gutters. I use it as mulch every time I plant something new in my gardens about 6-8" deep and my soil is easy to plant into now and the weeds are few and far between and easy to pull because they are only rooted in loose mulch. I like it so much that I'll probably e-mail the Superintendent of Public Works about November and ask for about 5 more truckloads to replace what I've used. I almost feel guilty about how easy it is.

Leaf mold is better than most compost. In my area it’s more attractive to worms.

I also suspect the longer roots of trees bring up more micro nutrients.

Oh, gosh! I hope I haven't started some HUGE battle over who has the best mulch! Because I live off the coast, and have access to seaweed, I sometimes worry that my mulch is actually too pretty, and people seeing it may underestimate it---think it's just a garden ornament. Or worse, say behind my back that I must have a professional gardener providing my mulch or something. Nope, it's just me. Anyway, I hope this hasn't started some big war.

How do you know it's a ton? Have you weighed it? We need proof!

Wow! No one has ever questioned my word before! My family has told me a millionquadrillion times that I engage in hyperbole, but they have never---not once---questioned my figures regarding my home-made mulch.

jerseybob, green with envy is not very attractive on you, I think we all agree.

My pile of leaf mold currently has a tree laying on top of it. It fell in the last big storm that came through here a month or so ago. I won't get around to cutting up the tree until fall but the leaf mold won't be done until spring at the earliest so no worries.

I probably have a little over a yard of compost ready to add to the veggie beds this fall which is a little less than I usually have at this time of year. I guess I was slacking off during leaf collecting time last fall. Not sure how one would go about weighing compost?

In small amounts on my bathroom scale.

Ok, but if you are standing on the scale holding a bucket of compost you have to subtract your body weight. Otherwise, you'd be cheating

It's easier with manure - a s***load is a lot.