french breakfast radish

Planted March 22nd, and now it's May 10th.

Our first harvest of the season 49 days later.

Typically they take 25 to 30 days to be ready, but we've had a lot a rain and not enough sunshine.

None the less they are very good.

worm composter

The worm factory really works, today I was checking on it and I had two bins full of beautiful compost.

I first heard of vermiculture in high school in the 70's. A fellow in one of my classes was really into it and told me how he was going to make his fortune raising worms. I wonder if he ever did it.

I love the compost these red wigglers make it smells good, feels good, (It's black gold, for the earth) All made from kitchen scraps, and shredded paper from the paper shredder.

The worm factory I've looked at for several years and finally took the plunge to try it out. So in December I ordered one, and put it together following the simple direction.

Pretty much forgetting about it and adding kitchen scraps to it. Eric and I have a lot of kitchen scraps of fruits, vegetables, and egg shells.

It's amazing to me the work these little guys do turning what we consider garbage turns into wonderful compost for the garden.

The worm factory doesn't take up much room and doesn't smell. After 4 months 2 bins of compost. Very cool.

Now I need to figure out a sifter so I don't loose the worms.