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Anyone using worms, castings or teas in anyway to grow any kind of garden, please share your advice and experience here.
Anyone using worms, castings or teas in anyway to grow any kind of garden, please share your advice and experience here.
Well, I put a few rocks and dirt in from outside just to jump start the microbal stuff. These worms were created for processing stuff that's outside.
Anyone using worms, castings or teas in anyway to grow any kind of garden, please share your advice and experience here.
Anyone using worms, castings or teas in anyway to grow any kind of garden, please share your advice and experience here.
Nice. I pulled my radishes as well and cooked them with some turnips, mustard, arugula and chard. My radishes always end up really leafy. I guess there is too much nitrogen in my soil.
Still getting lettuce, carrots, scallions, turnips, and a few little beets and bok choy leaves from the garden. Pretty good for mid november! Pulled the last of the radishes today.
The worms are fine, bin is in the basement, pretty warm down there.…
Andrew, in the spring I plant pole beans (which are indeterminate)--I get a crop in late May and early June, then they go dormant when it gets above about 95F. Then, I have had good luck with them coming out of dormancy and producing another crop in…
Thanks for the photos, Heather. Those purple beans are cool! Will they grow in a mild winter climate? I looked up the planting schedule for beans and it says spring or early fall.
Here is a string bean vinaigrette salad I made from my green beans and yellow wax beans this summer. But I didn't use the purple beans in that one....black olives instead. I did very lightly cook the stringbeans first- they were not completely raw,…
Strumelia, that is a great idea. My family is wild about anything with vinegar, and it should certainly keep the beans color. I am thinking some 3 bean salad type salads too.
Damon, the purple is nice because it is easier to find the beans against…
I grew those purple Italian pole stringbeans too this summer. They are great...however when you cook them they turn green! =8-(
If you want to keep the dark purple, I think you could put them raw into a vinaigrette dressing in the fridge for a coupl…
Nice! I didn't realize beans came in purple. How cold does it get in your part of Texas in winter?
Last one--here are a few of the purple and Blue Lake beans, and a few cherry tomatoes.
Many thanks to Strumelia for helping me out here--as you can see, I needed to become a Vermicomposter to support my organic garden habit! It is a full time job…
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- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- Looking for ways to grow my own fish bait.
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- Euros
- About Me:
- I like fishing, but I also want to start an herb garden to flavor my foods. I figure raising African night crawlers would solve several problems: lower garage disposal costs, provide never ending fish bait in addition to my mealworms, and provide much needed fertilizer for my eventual herb garden.
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- At 8:06pm on September 29, 2009,
Strumelia said…
- Well we'll surely be getting our first frost in the next couple of weeks.
I've put some stakes along my lettuce bed, strung a wire across them, and plan to make a 'poor man's greenhouse' with some plastic tarp like an A frame over that. Will try to keep the greens coming for another month or so.
I'm not so worried about the turnips and beets and carrots through the first few mild frosts.
- At 11:27am on July 28, 2009,
Anne said…
- Damon... great you are creating your own compost mixes. Also good you are not just grabbing up an "organic" bagged compost. There is no such certification and with the green trend, putting organic on the label is just yet another company cashing in on misleading advertising. Not sure if you know, but for example EKO uses biosolids from city sewers and also uses shredded wood products as filler. The "organic" bagged composts are not checked for quality, just content regarding safety levels. (heavy metals, etc... which also explains why plant growth varies, and often has quite poor results, with these dirts.) Organic farms lose their certification for 3 years if they use those bagged composts.
You could also look to find farms selling organic meat and see if they have manure to compost. It is more of a pain than just grabbing bags at the big box stores (and you would need to hot compost if it wasn't already finished) but you also don't have to worry about things like arsenic in the chicken manure (it is fed in many comercially raised chickens with the feed as a disease preventative).
Just figured I'd let you know as you are obviously going through great efforts at starting a garden out in the best way possible.
Good luck & take care!
- At 11:42am on June 7, 2009,
Strumelia said…
- <<I planted basil, oregano, cilantro, thyme, bush beans, radishes and chard.>>
hi Damon- sounds wonderful!
With the basil, cilantro, and radishes, you will want to plants new seeds of them every 2 weeks or 3 weeks, to keep a steady supply of young ones to eat. Basil and cilantro start flowering and get all spindly and stemmy after a month, so you'll want to have new younger ones coming along to replace them. And radishes grow very fast and you just eat them up- a new batch every couple of weeks is good to have growing!
Hey, try growing a little leaf lettuce- it may grow well for you where you are (I used to grow it in hot Puerto Rico)- pick up some seeds called "Black-Seeded Simpson" leaf lettuce- very easy to grow and gives plenty of beautiful frilly bright green leaves for salads. :)
- At 6:33pm on June 4, 2009,
Strumelia said…
- Ok, an herb bed!
Tell us what herbs you hope to grow!
I have a few herb plants in my little garden- sage, parsley, cilantro, and rosemary, because those are all what I use most.
- At 5:40pm on June 4, 2009,
Strumelia said…
- ok, so it this new box an herb garden bed or a worm bin? Inquiring minds want to know!
- At 8:44am on May 14, 2009,
Strumelia said…
- Careful, Damon!- once you start growing herbs, you'll want to start growing tomatoes, lettuce, stringbeans,....and before you know it you'll be ADDICTED to gardening and it might even take time away from your fishing! =8-o ;D
Seriously though... welcome, and good for you wanting to grow worms and herbs! This is a great place to get all the info you'd need.
I agree with Jason about the kind of worm to get. It's well worth ordering a specific type of worm to start out with depending on your goals. I have eisenia fetida, for example....a great composting worm but they are fairly small and probably not what you'd want for fishing with. I would suggest starting with one to two pounds of worms. Lots of people start with a half pound but they seem to get frustrated by how slow their system gets going- many later order another batch of worms to get things going faster. Might as well just get a good amount to begin with- one pound is a nice amount to start- not too big, not too small. That said, i started with 2 pounds but that's just me. ;)
Once you place your first order for a specific type of worm, if you provide them with minimally good bin conditions they will start to multiply abundantly.
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