Follow me through this year while I work my little raised beds in the parking lot, forage the abandoned golf course and road sides for edible plants and share with everyone everything that happens; good, bad, and from my point of view.
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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