The worm hotel... is there a time when you’d stop putting stuff in the top? Or do you just always put new stuff in and then take the compost out the bottom? How does that work for the subpod that doesn’t have a bottom? 😆🤷🏻♀️❤️
We've had a worm bin for over 10 years now, with descendants of the original worms still working. We're vegan, so we generate quite a few fruit and vegetable scraps, a bucket every couple of days. We put no food scraps in the garbage, so we're been able to reduce garbage pickup to every other week.
Gardening has been a little hit or miss. Our soil is quite poor - we have more than one worm bin can rebuild, although of course it helps. We've just dug out the top six inches of depleted soil and replaced it with good topsoil. I'll be starting work soon planning next year's garden.
You should try speaking to Charlie's school in Rothbury, they have are growing their own wild garden and have just taken part in Climate week. They seem very open to new ideas and have a biodiversity club which you could go and talk to? Sounds great what you're doing and I'm enjoying watching the progress x
We have a slow compost heap which is the usual square box type in the garden into which green waste goes, including grass clippings and some cardboard. No weeds. We also have a plastic drum thing on legs with a winding handle which sits not far from the back door and takes all the non-cooked food waste. It's supposed to make compost in three monthst. It doesn't. It has made a bit of a stinky mess, but I think it's because it lets the rain in and so get's very wet. We're going to try covering it with an old rubber mat and see if that makes any difference. We also make leaf mould from the fallen leaves from garden trees and shrubs. Now that is slow...
I started my first compost bin earlier this year and it's now full. I'm growing some veg for the first time and have had mixed success. But tbh I'm taking it all as a win in my first year. We are currently having work done so the garden is only accessible on the weekends and in the evening. I'm taking it for what it is and learning form everything. I've been following Charles Dowding.
Doing the worm thing is something I've looked at, definitely in the future, just not enough space with everything going on.
We have a fairly big garden with a very large greenhouse, and an allotment - my husband looks after it all as I don’t have any spare time. It’s not the most organised or tidy, there’s lots of clutter in the way of pots and brushes and tubs and the grass is very patchy from the attentions of 3 dogs 🤦♀️ but I love to sit in it when I can and listen to the wind in the leaves and birds singing. Such a beautiful read Claire, how lovely to be so connected to the cycles of nature 💛
We have had a consistent garden for 9 years now! This sounds terrible but I will admit to you that we do not have a compost because we have failed too many times. We give most of our scraps to the chickens and it’s wonderful. The rest of the produce we can’t give to the chickens we put in our green bin with the city. Your garden is beautiful. We also have on and off done a straw bale garden which is great for gophers which is a big problem for us! Love your focus on good soil, it’s so important to the process.
I've just been allocated an allotment! Super excited so I'll be going through your columns and YouTube videos
The worm hotel... is there a time when you’d stop putting stuff in the top? Or do you just always put new stuff in and then take the compost out the bottom? How does that work for the subpod that doesn’t have a bottom? 😆🤷🏻♀️❤️
“David is a qualified permaculture design expert”.
Sure. Sure he is. 👌🏼😅😂
We've had a worm bin for over 10 years now, with descendants of the original worms still working. We're vegan, so we generate quite a few fruit and vegetable scraps, a bucket every couple of days. We put no food scraps in the garbage, so we're been able to reduce garbage pickup to every other week.
Gardening has been a little hit or miss. Our soil is quite poor - we have more than one worm bin can rebuild, although of course it helps. We've just dug out the top six inches of depleted soil and replaced it with good topsoil. I'll be starting work soon planning next year's garden.
You should try speaking to Charlie's school in Rothbury, they have are growing their own wild garden and have just taken part in Climate week. They seem very open to new ideas and have a biodiversity club which you could go and talk to? Sounds great what you're doing and I'm enjoying watching the progress x
We have a slow compost heap which is the usual square box type in the garden into which green waste goes, including grass clippings and some cardboard. No weeds. We also have a plastic drum thing on legs with a winding handle which sits not far from the back door and takes all the non-cooked food waste. It's supposed to make compost in three monthst. It doesn't. It has made a bit of a stinky mess, but I think it's because it lets the rain in and so get's very wet. We're going to try covering it with an old rubber mat and see if that makes any difference. We also make leaf mould from the fallen leaves from garden trees and shrubs. Now that is slow...
I’ve often thought about using old journals as compost. Planting word seedlings to sprout as new life.
I started my first compost bin earlier this year and it's now full. I'm growing some veg for the first time and have had mixed success. But tbh I'm taking it all as a win in my first year. We are currently having work done so the garden is only accessible on the weekends and in the evening. I'm taking it for what it is and learning form everything. I've been following Charles Dowding.
Doing the worm thing is something I've looked at, definitely in the future, just not enough space with everything going on.
We have a fairly big garden with a very large greenhouse, and an allotment - my husband looks after it all as I don’t have any spare time. It’s not the most organised or tidy, there’s lots of clutter in the way of pots and brushes and tubs and the grass is very patchy from the attentions of 3 dogs 🤦♀️ but I love to sit in it when I can and listen to the wind in the leaves and birds singing. Such a beautiful read Claire, how lovely to be so connected to the cycles of nature 💛
We have had a consistent garden for 9 years now! This sounds terrible but I will admit to you that we do not have a compost because we have failed too many times. We give most of our scraps to the chickens and it’s wonderful. The rest of the produce we can’t give to the chickens we put in our green bin with the city. Your garden is beautiful. We also have on and off done a straw bale garden which is great for gophers which is a big problem for us! Love your focus on good soil, it’s so important to the process.