For the last few months, I've tried in vain to get (free) wood chips delivered to the garden. Many weeks ago, I laid down cardboard on all the paths in the garden (mostly just the perimeter), and in the intervening weeks, the pieces have blown all over the place. It has been a pretty dry winter (up until recently), so the cardboard hasn't wetted down to a rotting mass. Every time the wind blew hard, I would run across the street and gather cardboard from the street and from up against the fence and try to keep some semblance of order.
I had called about 15 tree care companies in the phone book, in addition to the two local power companies, and none of them came through. I've heard so many times about how "you can get free wood chips from the power company", but it did not work out for me. Finally, on one of the very last entries in the phone book, I struck gold. "No, you can't have our chips dropped off at your house," said the office manager. "But you can go pick them up from our storage location," which happened to be about two miles from the garden. And it's a veritable ocean of wood chips (the pictures don't do it justice). A quick 20 or 30 minutes of shoveling, and I've got about 2 1/2 yards in my trailer.
My friend Norris helped for one day, and Dan came over for another load, so things are almost done with garden preparation tasks. It's time to start growing!
Oh and also, the peas are sprouting. Almost exactly a month in the ground, and they're about an inch tall. They germinated about two weeks ago.
2 comments:
Hello - where is this ocean of free wood chips located in Portland ? Thanks.
Yes, where is this?
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