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Plastic Worm Bin-07-12-12 (article)

I'm a regular reader of Bentley Christie's redwormcomposting.com and he just posted recently about his new worm bin aging experiment...check it out: http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/plastic-worm-bin-07-12-12/ As he demonstrates, it's really important to add your materials long before you get your worms so the insides are nice and damp (but no pooling on the bottom) and the contents are mixed up evenly. I had my bin for a few months, but the upkeep on it got to be a little much for me, and that's when I switched to the Worm Inn...no more moisture issues with that thing. Although I recently skipped town for a little over a week, and when I came back I thought my worms were all dead from a dried out system...luckily I still had time in this 100F+…

The Clash of the Composts! vol. 2

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7tppqm8xE0 It's time for Clash of the Composts round 2, and this time I'm growing chives. The 4 soil types are: worm castings, tumbler compost, commercial compost and trench compost/dirt. This time around was pretty much the same...my homemade worm castings and tumbler compost outperformed the commercial compost and the regular dirt by a bit. One cool thing I noticed this time was how the commercial compost was free of weeds...this is due to the thermal kill levels of mass piles of compost, and it showed. Perhaps that is also why it didn't do as well as my stuff. The obvious conclusion here, like last time, is that compost definitely helps your stuff grow...so use it! Hit the Like button and let me know if you've tried comparing compost types…

My Basil is Still Growing…yes!

A few weeks ago, I decided to harvest all of my basil plants from the Clash of the Composts! experiment. They were all looking so good for so long...those big bright and shiny green leaves. At a certain point, they outgrew their pots it seemed, and started to look worse. I moved two out of each of the pots in the experiment to free up space, and put them all together in another container. It definitely improved the growth of the experiment pots, but only for a short time. The ones in the new slender container were looking even better. Anyway, I chopped everything off to make a pesto and didn't expect anything to happen in the pots after that. It's been a few weeks, let's see how they look:…