August 27th, 2010 Don’t worry. The worms are doing fine. However… I had been neglecting them for some time until last weekend when I found mostly castings and worms in the bottom and almost no food or worms in the top! I harvested all the castings to use in the garden and put the worms back where they’re [...]
August 4th, 2010 We’ve been enjoying the veggies of our labors! Here’s a photo of some things I picked yesterday. Cucumbers, green beans, a tomato, a small turnip, a radish, a couple tomatillos and a zucchini. Oh! And one little potato that grew under the compost pile!
June 23rd, 2010 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 [...]
June 7th, 2010 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) [...]
June 2nd, 2010 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 [...]
May 25th, 2010 It’s almost 90 degrees today. I’ve been so worried about my plants that I forgot to consider the worms. I looked in the bottom of the bin today and found at least 20 – 25 worms all huddled in the bottom, near the liquid. I assume they’re hot. Well, that and the 1st bin is [...]
May 19th, 2010 I learned a few things from my last experiment… I had thrown some old lentil soup (not too liquidy) into the first bin, then added the second bin (with some moistened shredded newspaper and just a little bit of kitchen scraps).
First of all, the second bin fits inside the first bin completely, [...]
May 7th, 2010 It figures, as soon as I put my worm bin outside the temperature drops below 50 degrees. They seem to be okay, though, most are still moving pretty well. I started a new tray with fresh bedding today in case I overloaded the first one yesterday. (I dumped in about a quart of old lentil [...]
May 6th, 2010 I can’t resist saying a word about my garden… well a few words. I started peas in mid April outdoors and they’re doing really well.
And I started some garlic last year from tiny garlic pods that Raye Hodgson gave me at last year’s Seed Exchange. They apparently need one more year to get to normal [...]
May 6th, 2010 Wow! I took a look in the worm bin today and it’s almost all vermicast and worms. Now the worms are looking a little sluggish and some have lightened at one end – you can see in the photo a worm with a yellowish end (tail? head?) at the top.
Maybe they’re not getting enough food [...]