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Derald wrote:
songbird wrote: ah, no thanks, i've got plenty of materials here on hand already to recycle. Shoot; and here I was thinking I might have fewer "treasures" to walk around, move around. shredded cardboard is one of the best mulches for worm food. any time we go to a certain store we always scrounge up free boxes. Ma uses quite a few of certain ones for things she does. any scraps i shred and that eventually ends up in the worm farm. within weeks it's gone. a few box tops i use for drying veggie scraps or projects, after a while they get beat up so they get shredded and get fed to the worms. it is a nice system where pretty much everything eventually gets used or recycled. i line the box tops with newspapers so they don't get too gunky too quickly. today i finished up sorting through quite a few box tops of garlic from last summer's harvest. the garlic i brought in a few months ago was sprouting and some of it was starting to ferment. quite nice smelling. the garlic i brought in from the garage (where it has been repeatedly frozen and thawed and generally ignored) is in much better condition. that was purely accidental as i thought i had brought all of it in. good thing. perhaps this weekend i'll see if it is still in good enough condition to put some of it up to hold us over the next few months. the bucket of garlic that will get buried deeply this spring when the ground thaws is some really stinky stuff. wonderful. i had to put it out in the garage a few minute ago. the lid on that bucket didn't fit as well as the one i used last night. didn't smell it at all until i opened it back up today. a whole 5 gallon bucket of garlic scraps, small heads and scapes. i took most of the tunics, roots and stems off to use as worm food as the worms seem to really love it. the roots especially. i'll have a 5 gallon bucket of those scraps to run through the wormies the next few weeks. i've never heard a worm drool. haha, guess i'm in a chatty mood tonight, but now i'm tired and ready for a snooze. cold and windy tomorrow. will hope y'all don't get too frozen by this blast. we were planning on going out tomorrow, but i think i'll stick close to home and enjoy a good fat book and this pile of blankets here in the roost. songbird |
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