Redworms thrive on the microbes of deteriorating kitchen garbage. Coffee grounds, filters, tea bags, loose tea, peelings of all types, scrapings and paper provide organic nutrition that the worms turn into wonderful black dirt.
Category Archives: Compost
Unattended Compost | Potato Take-over
You can see from the picture, the potato plant had me fooled. Simple white potatoes. I think I will stick a couple back to put into the bin when the weather turns so they can freeze over the winter and maybe do this again. They are marvelously CLEAN!!
Egg Shells Step to the Front, Please.
We go through a lot of eggs. The shells are welcome in the nightcrawler bins up to a point. Then, I’m looking for other things to do with them. Several years ago, I read about this formula. Gather enough eggshells to fill (without crushing) at quart jar or a gallon jar. Add water to the…
Mansfield, Missouri The Green Take-Over Revisited
The Green Take-Over has expanded. As written earlier, during a wonderfully wet Missouri Spring, we had about a gazillion pumpkin seeds sprout in the compost pile. The Easter Freeze was hard on them, even though I covered them with oak leaves.However, the big freeze didn’t totally kill them and they came back with a vengance….
