Worm bin composting

If you want the most nutrients for your garden, you seriously need to get a worm bin started. Worm castings or worm poop are second only to fish as far as nutrients go. Red wigglers are the most common, they cost about 5.00 per 100.
The way I set mine up was to get a rubbermaid bin 30x24x24 and fill it up with shredded paper as a great bed, add compost and manure, a little sand and some kitchen scraps. I started out with a 3" pile, adding more compost and manure along the way is a good idea. My bin has 300 worms and the best environment for them is keeping everything moist by pre soaking the paper and compost. Having a spray bottle near to spray down the pile as well as adding veggy and fruit scraps is a good idea also. Make sure you bury the food to prevent gnats. They say that your worms will double their numbers in a month or so. After about 3 months you can place a window screen on top of your pile, add some moist compost on top of the screen and then the worms will come up to the compost leaving the valuable worm castings behind. Starting a new bin with your saved worms should happen too. Add this to your garden or better yet mix 50/50 castings and coconut coir for a soil thats better than any!

Composting is a great thing

I love composting and all my foliage loves it too! Think about it, you layer your yard and kitchen waste as well as some water, air and presto instant nutritious soil that helps all plants. Even if you dont garden its nice to know you have a way to reduce waste in your home. Table scraps, newspaper, cardboard, leaves, grass, dead plants, egg shells, potatoes can all be used in a small pile called composting. This is the natural process anything from nature goes through to get back into the earth. No meats or oil or grease material, citrus, onions, no pet waste unless you have steer or cows or any other grass fed animals. You can go to my website at http://www.creativewatertrends.com/ and click on our gardening link to see an image of the construction of a compost pile, happy composting!

Rain

Praise the Lord above for all the rains we are getting, my garden loves it! You want to see a thriving garden, watch one after it rains, the heavens really know how to make it. Here in the desert or the dry west, most of us love to see it come. A few days or hours of rain, a week of great sunshine and presto, you have a growing garden. Hopefully your in the middle of some great vegetables to help feed your family, that is what we love to see. So keep it up and next month we will be previewing some great things to plant for the soon coming spring time, see you then.

Garden techniques

Another big part of this new website we are building is all about gardening. Im talking about creativewatertrends.com. We always emphasize fresh edibles in our outdoor oasis areas. Veggie gardens are our favorite, they compiment our creative cooking perfectly! We are looking for experienced garden techniques, soils, composting, fertilizers, insect prevention techniques, locations, types of plants, helpful url addresses, your experiences, etc.