Billy, how can you be bored by gardening I find gardening to be one of the most relaxing and destressing things that I can do, even when I have to do the 'hard' stuff. And it's usually free or dirt (hah!) cheap too. Good thing you've got a bro' that's happy among the plants. He sounds like a fine chap

While I'm here, there are a couple of other things I've remembered about compost.

Add your hair and nail clippings whenever you cut either. It may not seem like much (especially if you're folically-challenged like yours truly), but it all counts.

And occasionally piss on your heap. Some folk suggest diluting it up to 20:1 first but I never bother. Then again, I am a reasonably healthy vegan who drinks enough tea to keep my piss nice and clear most of the time. In fact, I use diluted piss (1 normal piss to around 7 litres of water) as a plant food fairly regularly as part of their varied natural diet.

i also got some flowers (rosebushes, red dahlias and a few rhododendrons), this year i wanted to plant tulips, red and yellow and white tulips everywhere but i was late, in May is too hot here to start planting, you need to do this in March or so.