Bloody grasshoppers .
They ate my seedlings the buggers . Seems as the sun came out I put them outside , I always keep a eye on them because of the hoppers , but this time I had to duck into town and while I was away the dirty rotten sod had lunch . Maybe I shouldn't have had that extra beer at the pub with me mate , Oh well such is life , Now the photo of the roots , the bigger one was in the tree soil .
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This next lot of photos is something I have been playing around with -- my own little worm farm -- Now these blokes are native worms and as I have spent a fair bit of time scratching around in the dirt for them and I have a good idea what they like -- so one day as I am digging the up the old brain had a bit of a flash ,
Why not see if I can farm them . Here is what I done , found some nice organic rich soil filled 2 buckets [ drain holes at the bottom ] covered with shade cloth so the little buggers don't run away . -- worked well -- Then I filled with dirt and placed a layer of well rotted banana plant on top with some fresh straw on top of that , --- Da Da -- Hecno has a worm farm . I do feed them now and again , they seem to like oats [ organic ] I place 20 odd worms in each bucket , I last time I checked there were baby ones in the soil , not sure if they are breeding or were in the soil already .
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My soil , The worms that are in it have grown nice and big , I really love my soil [ just hope it works ] and it is full of life , The one I will be using first is going on 7 months old -- what did I put in it , what ever I could find around me and what is available on line , I have spent a long time studying soil biology , do I know what I am doing -- Narr -- but I will one day , have to start some where .
@Eyes on Fire I credit you for this , with your time and effort you put in to teach .
Now I just have to get them dam photo plants out of my room .
Bring on the autos .
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