I just found this link on Utube and thought I’d share.
It ‘s a great little video showing how to put together the CanOWorms worm farm which is the one I use
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It looks like the frosts are over are spring has arrived in a big rush. It was 34 degrees yesterday and we’ve had our first thunderstorm of the season.
In one month we’ve gone from a frozen solar hot water system to thunderstorms and sunburn.
The good thing about this time of year is that the babies are out in the garden in full force.
The water chestnuts are poking their heads above water, the watermelon are up, and those tomatoes and capsicums I’ve nursed all through winter are well and truly producing. Best things of all of course, are the strawberries and asparagus.
Those capsicum seeds that I sprouted in the worm farm have become two leaf plants in the garden and look quite sturdy, while the choko vine is already 1/2 metre tall.
Now, the greatest problem will be keeping the water up to the little plants. They don’t need very much but they need it fairly often as evaporation is pretty high and usually we are out of the habit of watering the garden as regularly as it suddenly requires.
I am off to build some little shade structures to try to stop my lettuce, spinach and cabbage going to seed quite so quickly, to transplant some very large tomatoes in to the garden from the pots they’ve been sheltering in all winter and to plant some corn.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll
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You may not think it very exciting, but I have a whole trailer load of organic compost.
We went to a Charity auction last Saturday night and an opportunity to visit our local organic wheat farm to pick up a load of compost was irresistible, so we bought the trailer load.
You have to admire people who put their whole earning capacity on the line to improve their farming practices and these guys do it with such grace and enthusiasm.
The compost is made using wheat straw and any other organic material such as lot feed manure, chook manure and whatever else can be obtained but is mixed and composted according to strict guidelines. In fact, the person advising this farm is an Amish man from America and it is an Amish method of composting. It is quite impressive to see 800 tonnes of compost sitting there, waiting to be spread when you know the painstaking work and testing that has gone into its production.
The aim of the compost, at this large scale, or any other is to kick start and sustain the microbial life of the soil, which improves its water holding capacity and ability to support your plants.
Good compost improves the structure of any soil from clays to sandy loams. In clays it helps to create air spaces and increase water absorbtion (reducing runoff), while the course particles in sandy soils are unified allowing the soil to retain moisture and nutrients longer rather than leaching quickly.
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