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wormies!
ah!!!
nice to be back to the winter routine. cooked up some squash yesterday and so today i had skins, seeds and pulp from those to feed to the worms. instead of spreading the seeds/pulp out among several buckets i decided to mix in some paper scraps to soak up any extra moisture formed during fermentation and some other dried stuff, mixed all together, then emptied one of my other bins on top of that. the soil will filter out most/all of any fermentation smells and the worms will get down there eventually and work through whatever is left. i was looking at that bucket of seeds and pulp and trying to get enthusiastic about going outside and finding a spot to bury it all, through the snow, the ground is probably not that frozen yet. decided instead to use my materials on hand and my wormie friends. i'll check it in about a month to stir it up and see how it has progressed. this is how i keep learning about what the worms and worm composting can do, but also it is just fun to keep my hands in some kind of dirt during the frozen winter months. i have about ten more squash to cook up eventually, i hope they can last until when i have this first round of scraps digested enough that i can use the same bucket. it works out well to have the seeds in one bin then when i take that bin out to the gardens to use i can put all those seeds in one location and not have to keep weeding them out of the rest of the places i put the worm compost. i've tried this before, i mean i've tried to keep the squash and melond seeds down to just a few bins so that i don't have so many seeds to weed/snip. it didn't work because i ran out of capacity in just one bin when we did a lot of melons all at one time for fruit salads. and normally i like to roast squash seeds, but these were not in the best of condition. i suppose i could separate them and put them out as bird feed for the winter months. i wonder if any birds would even be able to deal with them. they're pretty thick hulled. ramblingly yours in peace, songbird |
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