On 2023-01-23, Michael Trew wrote:
> 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.
> 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.
i think it's a great idea too. i mentioned it to my wife and she said if
i did it in the house she's moving out. she has a fear of creatures
without legs. snakes and worms. it's a deep primal fear. even seeing
them on tv triggers her. i told her they'd be covered and wouldn't be
able to get out. doesn't matter, she'd know they are there.
if i put a greenhouse outside and heated it i could do it. but that's a
faint blip on the outer edge of the radar screen so it's unlikely to
happen anytime soon, if ever.
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