Local Harvest Gardening

Pssst....anyone?

I can't seem to find this in the course module but can I get the recipe for making LABS with milk and worm leachate from my bin?

I was researching using mustard as my growing season cover crop and found this about it being helpful in killing off rye grass: From plantcovercrops.com Advantages of mustard as a cover crop: Acts as a natural biofumigant Generally winterkills (at 26 degrees F) Easy to kill with herbicides and tilla...

How long have you had the bin? How many worms were introduced? Is it a Hungry Bin? where are you located, I'm not a pro but I've kept mine thriving for a year so maybe I could help troubleshoot?

How do I know if I have a full colony in my bin? Do I just wait until summer activity levels and estimate based on food consumption? Or are there other signs?

I mulched almost all of my beds in fall with leaves and chopped down plants as taught (living or dead plant material). Now it's time to top the beds up with new compost....but there was a post from Local Harvest the other day that gave me pause: Many gardeners believe that crop residue must be incor...

I had to remove the straw and leaf mulch that I put in my greens bed last year because it was a frenzy for slugs - and the amount of baby slugs nearly invisible to the eye was nuts! It was my only garden that ended up not having mulch all season but once that was removed it was mostly quite manageab...

That to me seems a bit on the low side. When I last asked Andrew about this he reminded me that it is a flow-through system so quite difficult to make it TOO wet and also that worms like it quite wet so he had me watering my bin more often.