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25 Aug 2009

Journal Woes 1 5 Neutral Balcony garden , The Worm Hotel garden , Strawberry Blooming, Strawberry 'Quinalt' Blooming, Strawberry 'Ch...

Wow, I’ve positively failed at keeping up with my journal. Lots of things have died. Other things have fruited (sort of). I’ll try harder. This summer, though splendid on the anti-heatwave front, has been dismal for most of the balcony dwellers. No summer squash. One sad cucumber. (A...

Sunny 21°C / 70°F

09 Jul 2009

Back in the Game, and Worm Hotel Update 4 2 Happy The Worm Hotel garden

Has it really been a month since my last post? There’s so much to update, but for now I want to focus on the Worm Hotel. After reading about the successes and advice of Katxena and cmagnus on adding tiers to the worm bin, I decided to take the plunge and add a tier myself. I’ve had th...

Sunny 17°C / 63°F

23 Apr 2009

First Update 2 4 The Worm Hotel garden

Damn it, I just wrote out a nice long post and hit a wrong button and now it is gone! That will teach me to write within the web browser, instead of in Writer. Going to therefore just sum: Picked up the worms 2 weeks ago tomorrow Initial set-up was: sheets of newspaper, soaked coir and shredded p...

Sunny 17°C / 62°F

12 Apr 2009

Moving Day... 1 The Worm Hotel garden

… was Saturday. I can’t believe I forgot. :)

Sunny 10°C / 50°F

28 Mar 2009

Browns and Greens 2 The Worm Hotel garden

So as I mentioned on the main “garden” page for the Worm Hotel, I have my Worm Factory but as of yet no worms for it. Bay Worms estimates that they will have some worms available for me in a few weeks. In the meantime, they recommended to “start your compost of browns and greens...

Sunny 18°C / 65°F

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