We've started using paper grocery bags as liners in our buckets and it makes cleaning the buckets much easier. Also, we now have a large number of buckets with lids and so we wait until we have ~30 buckets and build a large pile at once contained by straw bales. The temp hits over 140 for about...
Great garden. I think we've read some of the same books. Mine didn't work out as well as yours last year, but judging by your peach tree you've got at least couple years on me.
I actually got rid of my keyhole paths. Mathematically they make sense, but visitors to your garden won't understand and will walk in the beds even though I made them stand out pretty well. I also found that I had to do more walking to get to where I wanted to go. (Probably why people wanted to...
The part of the field that is struggling is because all of the nitrogen is locked up because you incorporated carbon(ie hay) into the soil. It usually takes a couple months at least for it to release the nitrogen.
@jifaone An egg carton work for what?