The garden suddenly turned colourful.
In the Cut Flower bed lilies bloomed.
This is such a beautiful colour scheme.
The exquisite shape of another lily.
The nasturtiums are out in bud.
Insects are feasting on comfrey flowers.
The 3 fig trees' Breba crop is filling out.
The feijoa/pineapple guava is in flower.
Sammy brought around a load of spent hops from a local brewery.
He mixed it in with the mulch.
I put in the thermometer - 80 degrees. Over the week the heat produced by the soil organisms moved the temperature up. I texted Sammy when it reached 160 degrees and he came back to turn the pile. Within a few days, the temperature started to rise again. Hundreds of mushrooms appeared and covered the whole pile when the temperature hit 130 degrees. They died off in a few days while the temperature rose again to 160 degrees. I opened up the steaming pile to let it cool down. It was too hot to hold my hand on the pile.
Once it has cooled down again we will spread this elixir on all the garden beds.
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