Today I got about 20 yards of compost for the pumpkin patch and new yard. This house is a brand new build, so I tilled the entire front yard to get the soil loosened up because it was very compacted from all of the heavy machinery. My new 8hp Troy-Bilt tiller worked great. The compacted soil was hard to work, but after few passed it started to dig deep. It will work very nicely in the patch. Not as powerful as the Barreto tillers I've been using, but in loose soil it will till the patch faster.
A big thanks to everyone at
Power Equipment Rentals in Heber City, Utah. They hooked me up with a dump trailer, truck to haul the dump trailer and a front loader to load up the compost. They also gave me some very nice finished compost that looked to be 2-3 years old. My soil at the new place is relatively nutrient rich, so this fully finished compost will be a very nice amendment to the pumpkin patch to get the organic matter increased in my sandy loam soil.
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