Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Gotta love Utah desert winter weather
Sunday morning Cindy and I figured we'd better get the worm bed installed and ready for critters, whenever the weather turns. We left Bev inside to do "house-cleaning".
Within about 3 hours, we had the big (10 ft x 5 ft x 9 inch) box cut in half to form a 10 ft x 2.5 ft x 1.5 ft bin. We had leveled the ground using the little Mantis tiller. It took several "pulls" to get it started and it wasn't real happy about tilling frozen ground, but did get the job done in minutes compared to the hours I'd have spent chopping away.
We loaded up a pile of partially composted horse manure and put that into the bottom of the bin.
We're expecting several inches of snow today, so that will add some slow moisture as it thaws.
In the meantime, we've been cutting cardboard into 1" strips and shredding all the old newspapers. It's sure nice to have a little paper shredder and small town newspaper rather than a big city version.
Just before we order the worms, we'll wet down the paper products and add them on top of the manure. That should make a comfy home for our little critters.
Oh, and I've still not seen the Key Lime Pies.
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