Monday, January 16, 2012

Never too early

No time like the present. I'm going to build an indoor garden space. I've been looking into purchasing a self contained unit from a pricey indoor growing shop in Madison, but I think I can do a little more research and build my own. This will primarily serve as a seed starter, but I'm hoping to get spinach and lettuce out of it year round. Eventually when I see my way to a wheat grass juicer, I will use it for wheat grass flats. The most interesting purchase will be the indoor composter I have my eye on. It uses probiotics to decompose the vegetable matter, resulting in a "tea" you can then pour on your garden. If after further research to find out this is safe, healthy, and excepted by organic standards, I think this will be the best way for me to compost. I have tried for two years to start a compost pile with no success. You need a ratio of 25 to 1, 25 being brown matter like leaves and grass clippings. This 25 part has been the down fall of my pile because I live in an urban area. I have no grass to cut, and hardly any trees with leaves.

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