고구마 덩굴 (Sweet Potato Vine)

I'm looking to share sweet potato vines from our garden without hassle but before we compost them. Please reply to this post. It may take some time as I'm still learning how to use this Blogger. Peace.

Thank you, Starbucks!

Your Grounds for the Garden provide much needed food for our fungus through moldy, decaying nitrogen and carbon compound organisms. We've been using them in our compost tumbler with kitchen scraps to enhance the decomposition. At 120°F last week, I think we're on our way!

The mushroom in the photo below is an indicator of soil diversity to support the germination and growth of spores as available. The fungi in the tumbler are thick, white strands and less photogenic.

I'm a fan of this author. Perhaps you will be, too.

Teaming with Fungi He has a series of four books on microbes, nutrients and bacteria-all parts of the soil food web.

Peace

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John and Lee

Task Specialization

We separate the solids from the liquids at first for different parts of the composting process.

This is a strainer over a bucket. It lets the liquids go through and keeps the solids on top.

I pour the blue bucket into the collander this time and then put the solids back into the blue bucket. They will go downstairs into the worm bin. The liquids will go to the wood chip pile.

I'm having a bit of a challenge with fruit flies in our worm bin, but worms are the best way to compost kitchen scraps for us. Then, after the tumbler is finished with the larger stuff, the worms finish that off, too.

The Blue Bucket Cycle

We keep a three-gallon bucket by our sink for kitchen scraps and non-soapy water.

The worm bin component of the water / compost operation

Problems in the worm bin in the spring include fruit flies. Here we are cleaning out a couple of trays to start over.

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Grandma Kirk and Grandma Shaver on the portch of the big house at Lake Tahoe, California. (date, before the deck remodel, before Grandma Kirk died at 98, born 1898, so that would make it before the year 2000, but it was way before that. Before dad died in 1987? I hadn't yet gone to Pasadena. It was still when we were spending a few weeks of the summer out of town. The 1970's? possibly. [This was written without my glasses. Please forgive any typos.] Peace.

How We've Used Coffee Grounds

Compost ingredient Worm castings fill, absorbant Worm bin filler, carbon buffer, worm food Ant and bug repellent, suppressant Top dressing Compost food, renourishment Air freshener Exercise excuse (sifting the disks to break them up, walking to pick them up, carrying them back) Thank you, Starbucks