Ask and you shall recieve

 Last summer our garden was blessed with good timing. My dear friend Karen let me know when city compost was available and we were able to load several truck loads of finished compost from the depot to our yard. Cost= gas+ sweat+ ibuprofen= mostly free.  A couple of weeks after that my other sweet friend Jen called to say she had a driveway full of free wood chips if we wanted them. More gas and more sweat and more Ibuprofen and our veggie garden was twice as big and beautiful to behold.

 Growing enough food to feed 10 people is another post all together. Roll around to this spring and I realize that we need more beds. So.... I stepped out of my cozy comfort zone and asked the contractor who was busy chipping a tree down the street what was he going to do with the chips? " Dump them. Unless you want them?" " oh Yes Please!" So super nice guy emptied his dump truck of maple wood chips in my driveway.

Yes that's my crew happily moving chips! But wait! there needs to be something under those chips to kill the grass. Here's the other part of ask and recieve. I asked the pizza shop across the street if he had and cardboard recycling . "Sure"' he says. "Can I have it?" I tell him about my spontaneous project and he sends me home with as much cardboard as I can carry.

So my garden is officially turning into an urban farm. Twice as big as last year. I may have bitten off more than I can chew. Or weed.