Day 3 of my quest to separate the worms from their castings and retire one bin of our worm farm. I have been following helpful advice from @treevan and @earthmothering9. This morning I bought a cheap sieve and have been pouring rain water through the castings to separate the worms and put them in the other tray.
To my annoyance I found that there was a bit of shredded plastic amongst the shredded paper we had been feeding the worms. I have been painstakingly fishing the plastic out as well as the worms.
I will get there! I am being slow and nitpicking doing this but that is my nature and it is better to get those personal qualities out on the weekend and in solitude rather than annoy people at work with them. #GardeningAU#Melbourne#worms
Back aching from bending over patiently sieving worm casts for bits of plastic, worms and worm cocoons. I am in the back yard having a cuppa amongst my pot plants.
In our small inner-urban back garden I don't have enough sunlight or garden bed space to plant all the plants I would like, so I have a collection of pots that I move around to catch the sun or avoid the sun, depending on the time of year.
I am also growing cuttings for our street gardening group. Our group met this morning and consulted on what we have coming up. We are hoping to give away the cuttings we nurtured over summer to residents living nearby. I have also picked up some plants my mother doesn't want, but I don't want them either, like the frilly pink camellia in this picture (grown from a $5 tubestock purchased about 5 years ago). I might see if I can find a new home for those plants too.
One of the members of our group has taken to naming his cuttings. He might find it a bit hard to give away 'Herby' so I suggested he keep it.
The light failed so I finished the weekend's gardening work. I managed to repot and divide 3 gazania pots. I watered the lemon and lime trees as well as the gazanias with the worm castings that I had filtered through a sieve with rain water.
Last week I planted a geranium (pelargonium) which grows a couple of feet next to the garage. In front of that I planted a jasmine plant I grew from a cuttingnso that it can grow up the fence. Then on the street I planted a 'Big red' geranium that has a small bushy growth habit. Today on the other side of the garage I mirrored the planting of the previous week.
You can see the stump of a tree on the left. The builder planted a Cyprus on each side of the garage which predictably became nuisances in such small spots, so close to the building. The previous owner had them cut down but when we moved in a couple of years ago, they were sprouting. We poisoned them and waited. They have not sprouted for about a year and the wood is rotting, so now I am planting some more suitable plants. #GardeningAU#Melbourne
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