I wonder if anyone can help me on this subject. My 11 year old son is interested in starting his own little worm farm for his garden. I have an organic gardening catalog that sells a plastic bin designed for worm farming. The ad says you can recycle your vegetable scraps and enrich your soil. […]
Category: Gardening
How to Deal with Moles?
I need more advice. I have moles in my yard and garden area. I have been fortunate that my cats ate a couple of them last year. There are lots of mole trails that are fresh , though, and that concerns me. What can I do? – Moles eat bugs and insects that live in […]
Cauliflower Seedlings: Damping Off?
I need some help and advice regarding some cauliflower I am growing from seed. I sowed 24 cauliflower seeds, two to a cell, in plastic cell trays a little over a week ago – on the 27th, to be exact. Almost all of them germinated very quickly, within three days. By two days later most […]
Snail-like Critters Crawling in My Soil
I have snail- like critters (very small though) that are crawling in my soil (even the one I bought) that attacks seeds and roots of seedlings.I’d like to get rid of them the organic way.Any ideas? — I have a solution perhaps you’d like to try that worked very well for my sister-in-law’s husband Jim and his snail […]
Composting Methods
I notice you mention a “garbage can of compost”. I’m new to composting. Do you literally put the compost pile in a garabage can? What size/type can do you use? I’d like to get my own compost started soon. —- In our shire, the local council subsidises compost bins in an effort to reduce garbage […]