Picked up 14 buckets of Trail Road compost ("potting soil") -- spring is much better than fall

Went to Trail Road today to get some soil for the yard, especially for the garlic area but got car-full.

Today the pile was closer to the road and was massively overgrown with weeds at the top, but they hadn't started dropping seeds yet.  But the pile was pretty hard, not like the gorgeous stuff of the spring.  I imagine this pile has been sitting here for quite a while since it's not the busy season.

14 un-compressed buckets of very dry soil (it hasn't rained in ~2 weeks) landed just shy of the minimum.  It was 230 kg or 507 pounds.

Saved 1 bucket to put in the basement (adding to a few buckets there from the spring haul).  The other 13 buckets were enough to put a nice layer in the eastmost "square" plus one or two buckets stored under the vertical structure to disperse in the spring.

Ideally would like to get another load for the yard next spring but won't bother going back this fall given how dense/old the pile is, especially as those weeds will start dropping their seeds all over it at some point.

GA: Results of popcorn ultra-early harvesting experiment = flop

The cob of popcorn that I harvested on August 20th after the tassels had turned mostly brown/crispy but everything else was still very green, and then placed loosely in a paper bag, ended up completely drying up whereby there were no kernels to be had whatsoever.

The cob of popcorn that I harvested on August 28th, in a similar condition as the August 20th cob noted above, was in a bit better shape in that there were some kernels, but they are tiny.  I decided to try popping the tiny kernels on the stove, just to see if they're usable at all.  Results:  No good -- they just burned without popping.

GA: Birds ate several of the popcorn cobs; have been harvesting gradually before birds or future raccoons get them

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