I was so stressed over those darn worms! First they are crawling around like crazy then they disappear into the dirt and I never see them. Did I kill them? Why aren't they crawling on the sides of my tub attempting to escape? Have they all decided to resign them selves to the tub prison? Did they realize that resistance is futile?
I finally decided I didn't care. I put the tub on my porch and just kept tossing in vegetable and fruit scraps. If nothing else, I got a big start on my compost. This morning, there they were. Not crawling on the sides, but crawling through the food. Okay. I am happy they are not dead.
My sister owns a restaurant and I am starting to get lettuce and other fresh vegetable scraps from her. I figure by the time it is time to fill my raised beds I should have some good compost going. Once my buckets are almost full I am going to put manure in them and when I plant the buckets it should be good to go.
We have had a small taste of spring this week. I walked around my yard for a bit and checked out where I will be putting the raised beds. Because I don't really know what amount of sun will be hitting the different parts of my (small) yard, it is hard to gauge until the leaves show up. meanwhile, now I hear we are under a winter storm watch for Sunday and next Friday, we are supposed to get really hit. Booo. Hopefully, after this spring will start for real!
My hydroponic lettuce/spinach/kale in the basement is just about ready to start harvesting. I also have some microgreens growing in my living room. My friends are starting to call me a hippy. Ah well.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Saga of the Worms
Those darn worms. They continued to escape again and again. So I put them in a bucket that didn't have holes in the bottom. But the bucket wasn't big enough to hold all of them so I finally put them into a big tub. They seemed to like that. They crawled all over the sides of the tub leaving lots and lots of casings. Perfect!
But let me tell you about my house. I keep it cold. I keep the thermometer at 60'. I do have one of those new radient heaters in my living room. But I like the rest of my house cold. So my kitchen is cold. And that is where my worm bin is. And the worms seemed to like the temperature.
However, I had the bin near, very near the heat vent. I happened to get a cold last week and because I needed it, I turned up the temp. And forgot the bin was so close to the vent.
When I tossed in the celery ends, I noticed that there were only 3 worms crawling on the side of the tub. The rest were laying on the bottom, pretty sad looking. At first, I wasn't sure why they looked dead. I was telling my friend about them and suddenly realized that they were by the vent and I was cooking them.
I moved them to my porch for a couple of hours and then back into my kitchen after I turned the furnace back down. Finally, today there were more worms crawling around. Hurrah! I would have felt terrible if I had cooked them all!
But let me tell you about my house. I keep it cold. I keep the thermometer at 60'. I do have one of those new radient heaters in my living room. But I like the rest of my house cold. So my kitchen is cold. And that is where my worm bin is. And the worms seemed to like the temperature.
However, I had the bin near, very near the heat vent. I happened to get a cold last week and because I needed it, I turned up the temp. And forgot the bin was so close to the vent.
When I tossed in the celery ends, I noticed that there were only 3 worms crawling on the side of the tub. The rest were laying on the bottom, pretty sad looking. At first, I wasn't sure why they looked dead. I was telling my friend about them and suddenly realized that they were by the vent and I was cooking them.
I moved them to my porch for a couple of hours and then back into my kitchen after I turned the furnace back down. Finally, today there were more worms crawling around. Hurrah! I would have felt terrible if I had cooked them all!
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