My brother, Ryan, came into town so we got busy. He did an energy audit on the house and we found a huge air leak along the rim joists in the basement, so check your rim joists!
We also got busy outside preparing the bed that will be home to 3 pawpaws, 2 honeyberries and 2 hazelnuts. We threw down the layers in this order:
- A sprinkling of Espoma Bio-Tone
- 3-6 layers of newspaper (sprinkled with a watering can)
- A winter’s worth of worm castings (from the worm bin in the basement)
- 1 layer of corrugated cardboard (sprinkled with a watering can)
- Some aged horse manure spread evenly
- Some year-old compost also spread evenly
- A bunch of leaves I saved from the fall
- Another sprinkling of Espoma Bio-Tone
Check out some of the pictures:
This one is just cuz I can:
Special Note: As my worm bin filled up over the winter, I moved the finished castings into a 5 gallon bucket with layers of newspaper in between. The bucket had no holes in it and I figured the worms that got moved over in the transfer would have a hard time surviving. When I emptied the bucket it was full of worms, worm babies and worm eggs, so I was wrong, they did quite well.