Whilst it snows outside...

Yes, it's snowing and sleeting and raining and dripping and generally just not the type of day where you want to be outside. Unless of course you are a duck, a frog or perhaps an earthworm and earthworms are aplenty in the backyard.

The beginning of this week more time was spent in the backyard cleaning and removing debris and...under all the debris I found big fat earthworms. I wish I had a picture or two of the nice big fat earthworms but I only took a few more pictures of the debris in the yard. The following two pictures are some of what was found just outside the french doors to the back yard.

Wednesday is trash day though and all has now been carted away. I now have a blank, albeit leafy, twiggy, cigarette butt strewn canvas to work with.

And...

My soil blocks have sprouted! There are little green shoots poking out of a few of them and the ones that don't have green shoots poking out the top I checked the bottom and they have root growth. The root growth blocks are bib lettuce and the green shoot blocks are eggplant and lovage.

Lookee here!

Also, my composting expirement in the kitchen has almost reached a point where the scraps need to be posted to a pile out of doors. The compost structure needs to be built though. The plan for now is to create one from what once was a metal futon frame found in the backyard. It will be a three sided structure with some sort of removable door on the front. The door may be made from a discarded piece of plywood that I saw the other day on our daily canyon hike. As a bonus the piece of plywood has already been painted an attractive green. I do need to inspect it for rot and general usability though.

Bowl #1 - Coffee grounds to be used in homemade fertilizer

Bowl #2 - Kitchen scraps to be composted

Bowl #3 - Recyclables






Old futon frame soon to be a compost enclosure.

Looking forward to a less wet day tomorrow so I can get to work outside again!