With the winter growing season drawing to a close, it’s time to clear the garden beds to make space for spring planting. So out come the huge broccoli plants that have kept us so well feed over the last few months. With our two compost bins and one worm farm already full to the rim, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘compost’
Turning broccoli and weeds into compost
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, compost, spring, weed tea, weeds, winter on September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Compost tea brewer
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged compost, compost tea on August 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A week ago I ordered a BioActive Micro Compost Tea Brewer, a baby 50L brewer. The moment it arrived, I had it assembled and running, as shown in the picture above. The concept behind a compost tea brewer is as follows: You add a small amount of mature compost, held in a giant teabag. Nutrient [...]
Serendipity and tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged compost, gardening, tomatoes, winter on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We we moved, we had some left over soil and compost in an old garbage bin. I left this beside the side of the house, and thought nothing more of it. Until tomato shoots starting poking their heads up. This is pretty normal: we have tomatoes appearing out of our compost at the drop of [...]
