Worm Poo

Just an update on the worm bin:

The worms are multiplying like crazy! And eating all my kitchen scraps. And making me some very fine fertilizer! I like to think of it as 'wormanure' - but when you're that low on the food chain, you can pretty much just call your poo DIRT.

This DIRT, this veritable smorgasbord of used-to-be veggie peels from the garden, has some mighty fine properties, which you can read here.

Last week, I planted my fall garden, replete with worm poo in the rows. I've already got carrots, peas, spinach, lettuce and broccoli sprouting!

I'll try to post a before/after picture soon!

I love dirt.

So, I want to be a farmer. I think. Here are some tomatoes from my out of control tomato plants, some cucumbers from my ho-hum cucumber plants and some lemon cucumbers from the most prolific lemon cucumber vines you have ever seen. (Let me know if you'd like some seeds). Yum. Organic, baby. (The record holding tomato weighed 14.5 ounces.)

I keep getting advised to cut back the tomato vines, but I just don't have the heart. I've never had a garden before. I waited all summer for these things to grow and now I'm supposed to cut them back? Where would I start? That's as bad as ripping little seedlings out of the ground and calling it 'thinning'!

There are at least 30 green tomatoes in the works, too. And dozens and dozens of blossoms. One of the vines (I have 4) has grown up into the neighboring tree and is blooming at about 10 feet off the ground. I'm serious.

I have tomato seeds, too. Want some?