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I will use it for mulch, but for an experiment I put down a layer of it in the chicken coop to see if the chooks can help me break it down for faster composting. It gives them something to do while they're stuck inside because of the snow. All that shredded white paper actually looked great in...

I know this is a little off topic, but it happened as a consequence of the worm bin. Last night while I was getting shredded newspapers out of a box for the worm farm I found a tree frog down among the papers and old dry potting soil. He was kind of dried out and dessicated looking but he was...

That's just why I had to tell you. Most people look at me with that glazed over look, like they don't exactly know what to say :D. Lesa, the worms make nutrients even more available to the plants than plain compost. Just a little bit seems to go a long way, like if you mix it into the soil...

Sounds good to me.

I'm so excited about my new livestock! I really didn't think my husband would go for a worm farm in the basement, but luckily he's a fisherman. This way I'll have wonderful worm castings first thing in the spring for asparagus, strawberries, and transplants, and he won't have to buy fishing...

I can get tons of shredded office paper to mix in my compost. Is the ink toxic, or are there other problems with it? What about composting things like cereal boxes that have that shiny cardboard on the outside?

Sounds good to me. Thanx lots!

I have some old wheat straw in the barn. I don't think it has any seed heads still in it. I apologize ahead of time if this is a dumb question. How should I best use the straw? Mixed with the compost pile...for walkways between raised rows...layered between compost in raised rows...mulch...

Ground too warm...poor thing......I'm still trying to muster some sympathy for you up here in the middle of my ice storm :).

I'm not in the south now but I was raised in Tennessee. Now I'm in Indiana in zone 5b...so no, its not going to be planting time for a while:rolleyes:...but it will take me a while to gather additional material for this size garden, in order to build it up. I don't want to till it at all, but...

I use free hay for chicken bedding too. I'll bet the chickens have eaten a lot of those weed seeds. Chickens can be great garden helpers...until there are strawberries or tomatoes.

The plan for the garden this year (after a lackluster year last year) is to take sort of a square foot gardening/ lasagna gardening approach by building up the soil rather than tilling it. I wish I would have thought of it in the fall so I could have started it then...but there ya go:/. I...