@colhill. Coffee grounds are treasure. Our red wriggler worm farm gets the coffee grounds. Get more from friends and neighbors. #Vermiculture, #compost.
Managed to do a fair bit of gardening today despite battling the start of a migraine (eventually thwarted by caffeine and rest in the afternoon). I repotted a blueberry plant that was in a way too small pot. I also repotted my $5 tubestock camellia I purchased recently.
My big success was finishing sieving my worms from their worm poo and therefore being able to retire one tray of my worm farm. It has taken me many hours over a few weekends to accomplish this because it is the first time I have done it and I didn't know what I was doing. Eventually with advice from @treevan and @earthmothering9 I got it and this morning I was much more efficient. This is what social media is so good for - sharing skills and experience as well as encouraging others.
So I cleaned up a worm tray and felt good! #worms#vermiculture <- newly learned word for me :-)
It is a public holiday here and peak gardening season. This morning I did a lot of work on our worm farm. I had retired the bottom bin 3 months ago and have been only feeding the top bin. We have a lot of worms and some migrated up. They have eaten a lot of stuff in the top bin including all the shredded paper I had put in there.
However, there are still heaps of worms in the bottom bin that are not migrating up. I was puzzled. What were they feeding on?
As I pulled worms out from the bottom bin by hand this morning (spent about an hour doing it), I felt solid material amongst the worm paste. There were still remnants of corn cobs in there. I also found a couple of partially digested tea bags. No wonder they are still happy there.
I am wondering whether I should buy another tray for the worm farm? #vermiculture
I removed some of the pasty, worm waste from the bottom bin, carefully removing worms as I did so. However, our worms seem to be having lots of babies and they are tiny so I am not convinced that I have removed all the worms. #worms
We paid a bit more to get a worm farm that was light and can be kept indoors as well as out. During the summer it is too hot for worms outside so we have it next to our kitchen on a plastic mat. It is good that the weather has cooled down so we can now keep it outside. Regular worm farm maintenance can get messy. #Melbourne#vermiculture
I have a #compost question for #compostodon followers. Egg shells? They take a long time to decompose - do you separate, crush, throw in, sieve or exclude?
@matthewguy. Egg shells are nutritious treasure. We crumble them into the compost pile and grind them up to dust for the red wrigglers in the worm tower. #compost, #compostodon, #Vermiculture.
We line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental problems like incinerators, waste dumps, acid rain, global warming and pollution. But we don't understand that when we add up all the tiny environmental problems each of us creates, we end up with those big environmental dilemmas. Humans are content to blame someone else, like the government or corporations, for the messes we create, and yet we each continue doing the same things, day in and day out, that have created the problems.
Sure, corporations create pollution. If they do, don't buy their products. If you have to buy their products (gasoline for example), keep it to a minimum. Sure, municipal waste incinerators pollute the air.
Stop throwing trash away. Minimize your production of waste. Recycle. Buy food in bulk and avoid packaging waste. Simplify. Turn off your TV. Grow your own food. Make compost. Plant a garden. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. If you don't, who will?”
― Joseph C. Jenkins, The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
Feel free to discuss this quote, in the comments just remain civil
A lil queer mixed race person on the south shore of #Mikmaki/#NovaScotia where I feed crows & am dreaming up garden plans. I’m a #WebDev who has a complicated relationship with #tech that I will probably always be unpacking.
I’m a settler working toward kinship.
I’m taking on another half plot at the weekend. It’s like a marsh & one of the wettest plots on site.
The aim is to improve the plot’s resilience to adverse weather by building up the soil level & soil health.
Not everyone makes their own compost on the allotment site. I’ll use organic matter donated from across the site to build the plot level up & make compost.
Most of the compost made will be a communal resource for other plot holders to use.
The worms are producing so many castings right now. Around 8 litres from the last harvest and still a lot more ready to go. Big bin is 200 litres and it’s pretty full atm! #Vermiculture#vermicomposting#wormfarm