Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Very warm with a few sprinkles. High temp: 83 degrees F; low temp: 60 degrees F.

Be free, vermi-pals!

Long-time readers will recall that I started a vermiposting bin earlier this year. I am very happy to report that it was a success. For the past few months, I stored a bin under my desk that contained 50-some worms and weekly fed them torn-up paper or cardboard, vegetable/fruit trimmings, and few squirts of water. The result was many more worms and a bin-full of lovely compost and worm castings, which I actually dumped into our outside compost heap to help get it cooking. We started the bin simply to avoid having to walk to the outside bin in cold/wet weather, and we certainly achieved that goal. One thing I should have done better was to provide more “brown” material, like paper or dried leaves. The bin got a bit too wet at the very bottom due to this lack, but the worms didn’t seem to mind too much.

Big plans for the community garden.

Thank goodness for today’s other bit of good news: In addition to me, there were three volunteers at the community garden tonight, and we finished planting all seeds and plants. Now we just have to pray for rain, and lay down cardboard and newspaper on every surface that isn’t planted, and continue fighting the weeds and grass, and find a way to keep out the voles, and spread straw everywhere, and … well, I guess there’s still plenty to do. I’m just very grateful to have the first planting done.