Last October mentioned garlic wife had planted wondering if it wouldI had begun to have misgivings about my ginger for the same reason
survive the winter cold and snow.
Last October mentioned garlic wife had planted wondering if it would
survive the winter cold and snow. Here it is the end of May and I
noticed wilting of a plant in a pot on the deck and I just pulled a
mature bulb from the pot.
Last October mentioned garlic wife had planted wondering if it would
survive the winter cold and snow. Here it is the end of May and I
noticed wilting of a plant in a pot on the deck and I just pulled a
mature bulb from the pot.
Sometime recently you wrote:
Last October mentioned garlic wife had planted wondering if it would >>survive the winter cold and snow.
I had begun to have misgivings about my ginger for the same reason
(without the snow, of course). A couple of weeks ago, I noticed green
shoots peeking up between the leaves in its tub and, 'yaay, it's
ginger. Just the grocerey store stuff and kind of bland, not spicy
hot but still pretty tasty and a lot less pricey than the current
$2.49/lb at the local off-price store.
but if i'd wanted to dry
it or grind it and freeze it i could have had a small container
of garlic from the four bulbs i had left. instead i chopped
it all up (after using what i needed) and fed it to the worms.
On 5/24/21 4:23 PM, songbird wrote:
but if i'd wanted to dry
it or grind it and freeze it i could have had a small container
of garlic from the four bulbs i had left. instead i chopped
it all up (after using what i needed) and fed it to the worms.
Did the worms demand some oregano and parsley to
go with the garlic?
:-)
T wrote:
On 5/24/21 4:23 PM, songbird wrote:
but if i'd wanted to dry
it or grind it and freeze it i could have had a small container
of garlic from the four bulbs i had left. instead i chopped
it all up (after using what i needed) and fed it to the worms.
Did the worms demand some oregano and parsley to
go with the garlic?
:-)
they're not too picky. along with the garlic they got
carrot ends, broccoli and cauliflower stems, dried ends of
green onions and lettuce cores and leaves that were too
far gone. the buckets also had some dried up pea sprouts
that needed to be buried so that was yet another green -
they probably eat better than i do... i also have egg
shells that get included along with paper and cardboard
scraps. not much organic material gets put out with the
recycling here.
songbird
Dang! A gourmet restaurant for worms. You aught to
start charging them for your services!
Wait, you already do that when you steal their
poop to fertilize your garden.
:-)
T wrote:
...
Dang! A gourmet restaurant for worms. You aught to
start charging them for your services!
Wait, you already do that when you steal their
poop to fertilize your garden.
:-)
the sad thing is that when i put them out into the
gardens only a few survive. adult worms really don't
cope well with rapid change in soil conditions on
top of the fact that many of them are not natives so
they will not survive the weather extremes.
the worms that will survive are those that are natives
and who are just about to hatch from their cocoons and
perhaps some of the smaller ones that have a chance to
acclimate.
i don't steal their poop. i just take the buckets
out and put them where i want to use their poop/pee
and then i keep a few buckets back which are used to
restart the buckets. to take the time to sift the
worms from the buckets would take way too long and i'm
not running a fancy setup where i could be more able
to let the worms migrate like some do. that's both
more expensive and takes more equipment than a simple
bucket like what i'm doing.
songbird
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