Compost

Ecology Day today went well.  The children seemed to enjoy themselves.  The red worms in the bin held up well.  They liked the activity sheet I gave them.  And they seemed to retain the information, at least in the short term.  Tips for worm bins:

Make sure the food is buried well, and cut up into small peices.  Grind egg shells.  If food starts to rot, remove it.  A good resource for worm bins is:

A gardener in Nevada faces many challenges. Beautiful spring days coax fruit trees into bloom, just in time for a hard freeze to cancel the crop. In July and August, the sun sucks the juice out of the hardiest plants. Wind-borne sand strips paint off houses and leaves off plants. Drought and Mormon crickets get anything left.

But Nevada gardeners can count on one thing—the purity of the soil. It’s either pure sand or pure clay, unless you’re lucky enough to be in one of the low-lying basins where salt and alkali collect.