I have such cabin fever! I had hoped to clean out my front berm, give away lots and lots of bulbs that keep multiplying like rabbits. Prune my roses. Give away the bulbs I cleaned out, and my iris that have gotten into my roses as well. Well, I was going to get started anyway. Mother Nature had other plans. She’s become quite the trickster, hasn’t she? Weren’t we supposed to get rain this weekend? Snow at the much higher elevations? Yeah, right, and my hair is purple, (I keep threatening my son I’m going to dye my hair purple, or bright green).
The weather forecasters have been having a hard time getting it right a lot this year. I’m beginning to think they should be in the same group as politicians! Except they don’t get any favors from lying.
What I can do is get my worm bin started. I shred lots of paper, get it wet, not soggy. Then I put it on the bottom of my worm bin which is just an old shipping crate. I had drilled several holes in the sides and bottom. Then I go to my compost, remove the top layer of un-composted waste which gets tossed into the empty compost bin. Under that top layer will be my worms. Lots of lovely worms that will eat my garbage and give me in return their poop. This time of year it’s still pretty cold so they’ll be in balls of worms which is easy to grab. I put them on top of the wet newspaper, then put some food waste on top of them, then I add some more shredded newspaper on top of them. I will then top it all off with an old shower curtain liner. The liner will help keep them from freezing while keeping them damp. Then I close the top. As the year goes on, I add more waste, onion ends and skins, carrot and potato peels, lettuce cores, etc. to the bin. It is amazing how fast those little guys will eat it all up. They also eat paper so shredding paper will go on all year as well. I will put my egg cartons in water for a few minutes, letting it soak up water, then I shred it and put it in the worm bin. I do that with the compost too.
Oh, I love my worms. You’ll see. I can’t stop talking about them. My friends tease me that I name them all. Yeah, well, not really. I only name my favorites. Just don’t tell anyone!
Soon, very soon though, this white stuff will be gone and I’ll be working in the dirt. The trick is, I have to remain sane until that time and with the snow of today, that is becoming much harder!
