More Additions
Today I officially ended my attempt to grow mushrooms. The attempt was a complete failure that was due largely to the infrequent attention I paid them. The soil was damp and kept in a dark place, but was certainly going nowhere. I thus decided to add the rich peat moss mix to the worm farm as extra nutrition. On checking that I found that my attempts to draw the worms upwards from the original layer was already succeeding within 48 hours. I though have since manually sifted through the produced compost and separated the remaining worms from the super rich soil.
The reason I took the measure to separate the worms and compost was that we went to the big kids toy shop, Bunnings. All that we were going for was to:
- Annoy my sister. Well spend time with her during a break as we have hardly seen her all week due to her insane hours.
- Pick up several bags of our favourite RichGro potting mix.
Anyways, as always happens we walked out spending over $200. We purchased 4 bags of the potting mix, 2 large tubs, half a dozen vegetable seedlings, a china doll, seeds, ant deterrent, and cat deterrent. The large tubs are being converted to be used as planters. The tubs were $12 each, whilst the equivalent size planter is $48. Easy maths when the only difference is a few holes in the bottom, easily corrected with an electric drill and 5 minutes. One has already had such a conversion performed and is now the home of some of the seedlings cucumber, zucchini and dwarf pumpkin seedlings. The cucumbers and zucchinis are full of buds. I will get the varieties tomorrow when the light returns.
In that tub is 25L of the RichGro mix that has been further enriched with our first harvest of worm produced compost. This has to be the most nutritious potting mix we have ever planted in. In the half barrels that arrived from Deals Direct we have planted the remaining zucchini seedlings and some pak choy. Again this is within the RichGro/Worm compost mix. We are looking forward to our harvest soon.
In terms of harvests we have just enjoyed a rather nice salad with home grown lettuce, chives and parsley being the highlight. 10 minutes from harvest to consumption simply can not be beaten.
Anyways I am off to watch some wrestling before bed … see yas.
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