From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 1/18/2023 12:13, songbird wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   That's a nifty idea; I would have never thought of it!  Presumably you   
   only use plant type food scraps, and not any kind of meat scraps.   
      
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