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Daniel....Low Cost Hard Core gardening. I used this method one year. When I lived in Illinois I took a bag of shad that washed up on the beach in Lake Michigan and dug holes, dropped them in, and planted corn over them. (Planted in a college garden plot availables to students!) I harvested corn so I would say it worked. Since you are in MA you might have access to trash fish you could use this, BUT not sure I would want to do this along side your house. The smell and everything, and you might attract raccoons that would tear up your plants. (Only used one year.....I use fish and kelp emulsion solutions here in Kansas.)

"When spring arrived, the time came for the colonists to plant their first crops on North American soil. Thanks to the help of Squanto—a Native American whose extinct tribe once farmed on the land now occupied by the colonists—they grew a new sort of corn that they called “Indian corn.” Squanto showed them how to plant dead fish with the seeds. This turned out to be quite an effective fertilization method. As the fish decomposed, the chemicals from their bodies would give the seeds needed nutrients. And this would help the colonists grow healthy corn until harvest."

So, your options and your choices.

Since you are in MA you might have access to trash fish you could use this, BUT not sure I would want to do this along side your house.

I am sure I would not, in this densely pack city of approx. 25,000 pe sq. mile. My compost barrel itself must be tended to regularly. But thanks.

Yet it is a relatively lost cost garden, with water from the rear of the building (in which we rent the 2nd fl. from a LL who has given use much freedom of use of land) being shunted via tarps into unused former trash barrels, and transferred from the collector barrel to others via a $12.00 12V DC 1100gph Submersible Water Pump , powered by a computer power supply (jump the green and black wires on the main connector with a paper clip), and using a combination of trashed water and vacuum cleaner hoses.

The water barrels are given a one-two second non-stick food spray to prevent mosquito breeding.

The main storage barrel is elevated and has a thick hose, connected using polyurethane gorilla glue and some Great stuff, and connected to some other trashed hoses, reaching about 60 feet to the street end of the garden, all flowing downhill.

A lot of soil has been screened via a homemade 2''x4'' wood frame using 1/2'' 5'x2.5' screening. Nevertheless, rocks continue to be the most abundant "crop!"

Tomato plants are grown from harvested seed (fermented a couple days before drying out) in discontinued 20oz. Dunkin Donut cups i found thrown out (I usually help the trash pick up).

But what is not being told is how we established this small place for gospel outreach, and of God's manifest providence after I left with my clothes on my back to serve in the Lord's work full time in 1986, without ever asking for salary or money for that labor. Any glory is to God, for it was not my idea.