New York City collects fallen leaves and scoops them into piles to form compost and then gives it away free to residents. Dave and I decided to take a drive to the Bronx to fill up containers with hot dirt and lug it back to Brooklyn. We were surrounded by steaming piles of compost and had only ten minutes to fill up our tubs. It was the richest compost I've ever seen.
I always thought getting compost in Chicago was kind-of a pain. You know, get the bags at Home Depot, lift them onto your cart, lift them into your car, dump them into the backyard. Inevitably one tears and you have dirt chunks everywhere. Well, imagine that you have a backyard, but you can't get to it from the first floor....there is no back entrance, no alley. You bring giant tubs of compost up to the second floor, through the apartment and back down the stairs into the backyard. Dave's got eighty five pounds on me and I was having flashbacks to our move from Chicago. Lift here, easy, easy....wait....raise it up higher, oh no! the bag is ripping! shit - piggie got out, dirt is all over the entranceway, can't see the stairs, hold on....ok, got it. I'm not that good at helping
cute garden
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