The Bunky County Memorial Garden is planted:
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Sweet basil, Thai basil, lemon basil,cilantro, red leaf lettuce, three varieties of tomato, cucumbers, chili peppers, and green bell peppers.
The sweet basil already looks diseased:
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The cucumber and chili pepper plants are even worse off. I got the plants from a friend who grew them from seed in egg cartons. The experiment apparently didn't go too well. Most of the leaves are white and withered. But I'm going to give them a try. A few of the cukes might have a chance. But I'll probably end up ripping most of them out of the ground next weekend and buying some less challenged plants.
Yesterday I went in search of free compost. A friend tipped me off to the compost site in South St. Paul. It's a veritable mountain of organic matter, free for the taking. I loaded up a recycling bin with the stuff:
![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JMLYPsknDVQ/ShsBHw-Kx9I/AAAAAAAAADg/dIf8J_1W9FU/s400/compost.jpg)
I don't really have much of a clue what you're supposed to do with compost. So I've just been shoveling clumps of it onto the garden. I buried one wee little tomato plant in organic matter. We'll see if he can survive the suffocation.
![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JMLYPsknDVQ/Shr-Z-IplEI/AAAAAAAAADQ/XKsAqv1Dz6I/s400/garden+planted.jpg)
Sweet basil, Thai basil, lemon basil,cilantro, red leaf lettuce, three varieties of tomato, cucumbers, chili peppers, and green bell peppers.
The sweet basil already looks diseased:
![](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JMLYPsknDVQ/Shr_UKV18jI/AAAAAAAAADY/g1e-fVIPo8U/s400/basil.jpg)
The cucumber and chili pepper plants are even worse off. I got the plants from a friend who grew them from seed in egg cartons. The experiment apparently didn't go too well. Most of the leaves are white and withered. But I'm going to give them a try. A few of the cukes might have a chance. But I'll probably end up ripping most of them out of the ground next weekend and buying some less challenged plants.
Yesterday I went in search of free compost. A friend tipped me off to the compost site in South St. Paul. It's a veritable mountain of organic matter, free for the taking. I loaded up a recycling bin with the stuff:
![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JMLYPsknDVQ/ShsBHw-Kx9I/AAAAAAAAADg/dIf8J_1W9FU/s400/compost.jpg)
I don't really have much of a clue what you're supposed to do with compost. So I've just been shoveling clumps of it onto the garden. I buried one wee little tomato plant in organic matter. We'll see if he can survive the suffocation.
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For what it's worth, I believe you can also pick up free compost at the St Paul/Ramsey County Yard Waste Disposal site - at the west end of Pierce Butler just before you turn south towards the Amtrak Depot. Fits in nicely with a stop at the Dubliner on a weekend afternoon. Or so I've heard.
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