From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   fos@sdf.org wrote:   
   ...   
   > i do still consider myself a gardening noob, so those are just my   
   > thoughts and i'm quite capable of wrongthink so tread carefully. lol.   
      
     if you have room in a basement or an unfreezing and   
   uncooked by heat in the summer type of space you can   
   keep worms in buckets and they will actively help break   
   down any food scraps.   
      
     it cost me all of $20 to get started and most of that   
   expense was buying sheer fabric (for curtains) to use   
   as bucket covers, but you could use old t-shirts   
   instead as long as they weren't holey.   
      
     for that $20 i've gotten a few hundred pounds a year   
   on average of reconditioned garden soil and fertilzer   
   that i don't spend any money on those in a normal year.   
      
     the other thing to do for free garden nutrients is   
   to grow some green manure crops and cut them back once   
   in a while and feed that to the gardens.   
      
     i have plenty of other tips from experience doing   
   this too.  :)  it's fun to learn about worms, ecology   
   and nature while you're at it.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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