Archive for June, 2010

 Summer Begins…

The worms are doing fine – I’ve been gathering some of the castings out of the bottom catch basin for use in the garden as needed with new seedlings or just throughout the garden.  I have a couple big flowers pots full at the moment and I need to plant some more anyway…
The garden is [...]



 WOW

My plants are loving the Quantum Growth liquid!!! They’re already healthier looking, like nothing can stop them!
Yesterday, I planted three tomatillo plants given to me by our friends Kathi and Everardo. I’ve never eaten them before, but I found some good recipes!
I just planted some turnip and beet seeds in a nicely tilled (by hand) [...]



 Planting, Planting

Today I cleaned out the 1st worm bin completely, putting the vermicompost into two separate containers (planters, really) for use in the garden. Now I can use the 1st bin in the worm composter again, as the 2nd bin. Can’t imagine needing all 3 or 4 bins at one time… although there are a TON [...]



 Vermicompost

I harvested my first large amount of vermicompost today. I can’t believe how many worms there are now! They are quite the multipliers. I got most of the worms out of the 1st bin manually as they were still hanging around even though the bin was almost all castings. They can’t live in that. Silly [...]