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Today I did something in my Garden
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in my wormery experience (outside Ireland), temperature matters a lot. Garden worms don't like it too warm, the 'composting worms' (the red smallish ones) do fine. So, if your wormery is indoors, you might want composting worms rather than generic garden worms.
Frankly, depends on what your plans for the worms are. Seems like if you have lots of worms per sq. foot, you don't need a wormery
I didn't have any plans for the worms, I thought they made compost? I probably won't bother but I find so many worms when I am digging I thought they might serve another purpose.
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I didn't have any plans for the worms, I thought they made compost? I probably won't bother but I find so many worms when I am digging I thought they might serve another purpose.
Compost is decomposed organic material AFAIK. Worms play a part in doing the chewing up part, but it's bacteria that break the material down. If you have a lot of the red wiggler compost worms, you're doing something right.
As for uses for worms, there's fishing, feeding to larger pet tropical fish, maybe letting chickens have at them...0 -
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Compost is decomposed organic material AFAIK. Worms play a part in doing the chewing up part, but it's bacteria that break the material down. If you have a lot of the red wiggler compost worms, you're doing something right.
As for uses for worms, there's fishing, feeding to larger pet tropical fish, maybe letting chickens have at them...
Checks google, oh yes, I'd say some of them are compost worms, others are the more usual earth worms. I am happy for them to just be in the garden, I was just wondering about other ways they could be used. (I just looked them up, I know nothing about worms, or at least, now I know a bit more) 0 -
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SnowyMuckish wrote: »Got a delivery of certified native Irish wildflowers today from wildflowers.ie. It’s going to be a busy weekend sowing hope the weather holds long enough.
Sowed around 60sqm in our front garden yesterday,
took 3/4 hours to remove as much grass as possible.
Used one of these detaching blades in the mower and it worked well.
https://lawnmowerpartsonline.ie/product/16-dethatcher-blade
It did slightly damage the mower, i think i had it set too low and hit a bump.
Another thing to fix.0 -
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There are days when I envy ye all over there with nothing more to worry about in your lawns than a bit of moss and a few patches of plantain! :pac: I spent a good hour this morning trying to redistribute dozens of molehills into the humps and hollows that the little feckers create with their tunnels. A pointless task, because I'm sure there'll be a least half a dozen new ones there when I go out after my lunch. :mad:
Edit: but then again ... the 17°C outside in the coldest part of the garden at the moment is some compensation. I have some painting to do this afternoon, and have to move it into the shade - it's gloss white, and I'm already half-blinded by looking at the undercoat. :cool: 0 -
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SnowyMuckish wrote: »17c at the end of March, lovely! if I had that here in the NW in June/July I’d be delighted! Must be hard to keep up with watering in the Summer though?!
CR loves to rub our noses in his, weather
I can see snow on slieve Mish0 -
SnowyMuckish wrote: »17c at the end of March, lovely! if I had that here in the NW in June/July I’d be delighted! Must be hard to keep up with watering in the Summer though?!
Summer? Never mind summer, I'm already recycling the kitchen water for the planters out the front, and dipping into the rain butts for the veg.
We've had only one full day of anything you might call rain since ... mid January, I think? Other than that, the plants get more from a heavy dew than straight from the sky.
And these clear skies do come at the price of chilly nights - still in the low single digits this week. A 20-degree difference in the same day is a bit of a pain (it's now 26°C where it was 17°C earlier - still in the shade there, but the sun's coming around and is bouncing off a nearby wall).0 -
SouthWesterly wrote: »CR loves to rub our noses in his, weather
I can see snow on slieve MishCelticRambler wrote: »Summer? Never mind summer, I'm already recycling the kitchen water for the planters out the front, and dipping into the rain butts for the veg.
We've had only one full day of anything you might call rain since ... mid January, .
Oh well at least that’s one problem I don’t have to worry about, I could bottle and sell the stuff :pac: :pac: we put herring bone drains into our lawn a few years ago, looked out this morning to see 3 mini lakes in it, had to go out to puncture a few holes. Almost no need to ‘create’ a garden pond here, I don’t know why I bothered :pac:
Still a few warm degrees our way would be nice this summer!0 -
SnowyMuckish wrote: »Oh well at least that’s one problem I don’t have to worry about, I could bottle and sell the stuff :pac: :pac: we put herring bone drains into our lawn a few years ago, looked out this morning to see 3 mini lakes in it, had to go out to puncture a few holes. Almost no need to ‘create’ a garden pond here, I don’t know why I bothered :pac:
Still a few warm degrees our way would be nice this summer!
Water is one thing the kingdom isn't short of 0 -
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This is what had me blinded earlier: a quarantine facility for summer visitors ...
Can also be used by plants (up to) 60cm tall that think something-teen degrees is a bit chilly, and single-digit temps are just ... no! :pac:
The "ice lolly sticks" were a late addition to the design, when I realised that this'd be too heavy to move by myself when fully glazed, and I'll most need to be moving it when I'm least likely to have anyone around to help. So the five panes (salvaged from a set of internal doors that were in the house when we arrived - 15 years in the "might come in handy" corner ) can be lifted out and re-fitted as required. Of course this means that they don't give a complete seal, but I'm going to call that "ventilation" ... 0 -
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Back to the rainy weather tomorrow.
Lucky for some!
We're promised the possibility of (maybe) some light showers next week. Was talking to the neighbour this evening (walking his dog after curfew ... ) - his little pond and reed-bed is now completely dry.
Today was a flower-day for me - pricking out and potting on, mostly border annuals, but a collection of lupins too; as well as pulling the weeds out of the containers where I have loads of tulips growing (am really pleased with how my container-grown tulips are performing*).
Also picked up half a dozen lavenders for 1€90 apiece when I went to the supermarket this morning. I've set myself the target of getting my herb garden fully landscaped, renovated and re-planted by the end of April (not including the saffron bulbs, because they won't be sold till July).
* but they're not half as impressive as the late in-ground planting of these, following the suggestion of a work colleague back in December.
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CelticRambler wrote: »Lucky for some! We're promised the possibility of (maybe) some light showers next week. Was talking to the neighbour this evening (walking his dog after curfew ... ) - his little pond and reed-bed is now completely dry.
Today was a flower-day for me - pricking out and potting on, mostly border annuals, but a collection of lupins too; as well as pulling the weeds out of the containers where I have loads of tulips growing (am really pleased with how my container-grown tulips are performing*).
Also picked up half a dozen lavenders for 1€90 apiece when I went to the supermarket this morning. I've set myself the target of getting my herb garden fully landscaped, renovated and re-planted by the end of April (not including the saffron bulbs, because they won't be sold till July).
* but they're not half as impressive as the late in-ground planting of these, following the suggestion of a work colleague back in December.
Whatever about the tulips (which are gorgeous) I am eyeing the little fence with some interest and envy!0 -
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