I have a worm bin with lots of worms living inside. A couple of years ago, I had a worm bin with worms inside, and the worms did not thrive. I didn't know what the reason was, but thought that possibly they did not get enough water. So, this time I have made sure they are moist. I put tea bags in the bin and sometimes I just put water in it, to make sure the worms don't dry out.
There are a lot of worms in there now, plus, the spigot on the bottom of the worm bin doesn't close anymore, so I have to keep a bottle underneath it when it leaks (which is continually).
I was surprised to see how fast the bottle I just put out there had filled up. I like to take the contents and pour them on the ground near the roots of the fruit trees. For the past year, I have been doing that, and this year, we finally have fruit growing on our trees. I am so excited about this. One of the trees is called 'blood orange' but the fruit never ripens on it because as soon as it freezes, the unripened fruit falls off. One time I did get a couple of ripened fruits on it, and when I opened it up, there was no indication that the fruit was that of a blood orange tree. So, if we don't have a freeze soon, we may have more of those, and I can better determine whether or not I have a genuine blood orange tree.
Today I took the bottle that was filled with worm compost tea out to the garden area. Then I poured the contents onto a pile of scrap food that was in one of the gardens. It will be interesting to see how the micro-organisms live in this rotting pile of food. This is fascinating, to see how the soil can become nourishing for plants, and how plants in turn take in this nourishment to produce food for us. And the cycle goes on, and on. That is how God designed it to work for us. And we are very grateful.
There are still a lot of blackberry plants that need to go. I believe they are doing so well because of the nourishment that is in the garden soil. But they will take most of the nourishment out, and the other plants will not benefit, unless the blackberries go. That is the project I am presently working on.
Here are some plants you can grow in the winter:
lettuce
spinach
beets
carrots
broccoli
potatoes
Happy Gardening!
