the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

i did get the peppers planted and now can get on with the beans in all of the rest of the gardens. will take me a week or two depending on the weather and whatever else comes up.

 

[flowerbug]

yesterday was the annual running of the worms finale and over the past several months i've been thinking of retiring from worm keeping and so i have not restarted the worm buckets yet and i may not until the fall or perhaps never.

i did learn a lot about them from keeping them and taking care of them, they were not that much effort but with my most recent mistakes and Mom's change of her routine i wasn't getting enough of the right kind of food scraps to keep them going very well and the bulk of the worm buckets did not support worms very well at the end. they all did need to be refreshed and i did need to get some different worms and i am not getting out much to look around and i don't want to order them to be shipped to me either. just not what i have time to do these days. so it was time to let the worms go that i did have and to regain that space in my room (it looks very strange now to not have those buckets there).

instead i will be doing the bury in the garden kind of food scrap composting and then the worms will have a more natural setting out there and when it gets colder in the fall and i can't do that i'll return to drying things out as usual and then i can store it in a bucket until i can bury it in the spring. any spoiled and messy stuff can go on the weed pile out back as usual, the birds pick through it looking for bugs and other treats...

14 years and it will be a change in routine and scenery and i'll have to get used to it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wow - that certainly is a big change for you. Sounds like you've got a good alternative plan though.