First...I looked up Abbotsford and you are in the same relative weather area as I am here in Western Oregon. In the interest of full disclosure I have ONLY been gardening for 8 years and I am giving my opinions based on that experience, reading and NOT scientific evidence. How long have you been gardening? It looks like from the photo you will be having to deal with the grasses that border the compost. Was the compost spread over dormant grasses? How long has this been fallow? Here is my advice. In the next couple of weeks we should have a "drying period." Watch the forecast, and at the end of that time work this into the soil. If it is on top of grasses, I would just disk it in. I think if it is on sod, it would be difficult to till and might just spread the grasses. If there is no sod...go ahead and deep till it in and plan to till it a couple of more times before planting (weather permitting). To me, you are one year away form effective gardening on this. Mother Nature will not be rushed, but rather loves smooth steady attention Good Luck PS. Go to your GW profile and update your location and zone and then it will appear in future posts (that is essential to get quality responses)

Hello I till into my garden (mid Sept) tons of leaves and whatever maure and lawn clipings that I can get my hands on in the fall.I Spread 4" on top of the garden and roto till then spread another 4" and so on. When I have a foot of organic matter in the soil I water it well (2") and let mother earth do her thing untill next mid May, I wait untill then because I dont plant untill May 23 and If we have a warm spring some weeds will germinate and that way I can till them under when I get the garden ready for planting. The vegetation that I tilled in Sept is broken down and youll be ready to have another (hopfully) great garden. Its the easyest way to get rid of yours and your neighbors laeves, it feeds your soil and lets your garden do the composting. I quit doing my own pile composting and started do it this way because for all the work I found that I didnt get that much compost, because I have a 60 x 60 garden its the most practical and cost effective way of adding organic matter. I till a lot of my neighbors grass clippings into my garden through out the year by spreading them bettween the rows and every couple of weeks lightly roto tilling them into the soil. I hope this might help.

I transferred a couple of volunteers from my Sungold onslaught of last year just this past week. Tthey seem to be thriving. Bloomed some flowers as well since the transplant. You should definitely do it. Sungolds are hybrids so these will be a real mystery tomato. Enjoy..............elliot

They easily could have come from the seeds falling off from last year I had the same thing happen this year from two years ago when I cut all mine down to dig them up I threw them all In A pile on the side of my house to load up and haul away and this year 4 grew there