yesterday i got the worm farm fed with all the scraps i'd been drying along with anything else i had on hand. mostly dry beans, garlic husks, some burnt toast, chicken bones ( a small bone per bucket won't hurt anything), the dry bean stalks i picked off the fence, the last bucket of bean pods from shelling last fall, sweet potato skins, paper scraps, etc. i was even trying to get ahead of weeding a few weeks ago and while i was out there looking around for things to do there were some rabbit and deer pellets on the pathways that i picked up (otherwise they encourage weeds to grow in the pathways). if they are dry they don't smell... so now that bucket is out of my room.
i try to get this all done every two to four weeks depending upon how many food scraps, etc. we generate.
critter season has also started up, grackles, chipmunks, rabbits, and yesterday on the off-chance a groundhog was out there and at first i wasn't going to try to scare it away with the air rifle but i was right there so i did and i managed to shoot it (it made the mistake of running away and then stopping to look up). i always feel so sad in having to hunt them but if i don't i won't get much of a harvest from many garden plants even in the fenced gardens (they can get through the fence in spots either by climbing or by going through gaps). so i was out in the rain/snow/sleet and mud burying the poor creature. we have no shortage of them or any of the others.
deer too, they've been here all winter going through various areas, eating the cedar trees or anything else they can find, bedding down and making mud trails. they even went through part of my fence out front that i have to straighten back up next time i can get outside.
that won't be any time soon, it is windy and raining here, plenty of rain the past few days, we don't need any more.
