It makes me laugh to think about it.  I found out that you can buy rich potting soil from the young men who raise plants for sell.  There are many of them along the roadside all over the city.  So we went to one and bought two larger gunnysack type bags of soil for only 5.000 F ($10)  Then we took them home, dumped them out on the ground and began adding things.  We added two bags of ash from our burning barrel, a wheelbarrow load of soil that we had mixed with compost, and various and sundry pots of soil.  These were well mixed.  Next we began filling all our new pots.  We bought large ones at the suggestion of a friend with a green thumb.  She informed us that our plants would prosper if their roots had more space.  When we began transplanting our plants to the bigger pots, you could almost see the smiles breaking out on their faces.  After placing our new pots in strategic locations in front of Shiloh, we returned to our pile of soil.  We filled two gunnysack type bags with the leftover soil.  And I'm still laughing.